The extra leg room offered by the biggest planes are not always necessary and it will heavily increase the cost.
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Hanqing Zhao
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Debbie
Bigger planes will increase the cost while revenue stays the same.
If westjet increases ticket prices, they lose competitive pricing edge -
Caitlin Lim
Higher cost to the company for a price that customers may not be willing to pay. Profit and cost will not equal and company will deficit.
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Matt Gwin
Bigger planes will vastly increase total money spent on fuel (among other costs) and would make the bigger First Class seem less appealing
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Curtis Zhao
Consumers are not willing to pay the massive increase in price for more leg room on a flight . All the fixed costs are going to rise.
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Kwok Ching Him
Operational reason – Some airfield = runway restriction for aircraft type…
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Yan Gao(Helena)
Bigger plans costs more so that customers would be charged more. Choosing different types of planes for different routes is a better deal.
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Meggie Liu
From the company’s perspective, bigger planes would result in an increase of fuel and labour.
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victoriayang
Choosing bigger planes may mean higher maintenance costs, higher fuel costs, environmental damage, and costs must be passed to the customer.
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Aylin Senem Piskin
The cost is going to be higher. They’re gonna have to increase the ticket prices but they might lose their customers by doing this.
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xiaorongye'blog
inter-country flights usually have less customer, and by having a smaller plane, the cost would be minimized when all the seats are occupied
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admin
Gas prices and maintenance for bigger planes may not be efficient for company profits.
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valendinadebonis
It costs more and less people would be able to fit in the plane.
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Megan Chan
Larger planes have a higher fixed costs (maintenance, fuel, etc) that might not be covered by the extra profit people are willing to pay
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Jake Black
If there are the same number of seats on the small and large plane, they might as well save money on gas and the price of the airplane.
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Kwok Ching Him
Maintence cost – Bigger plane is sophiscated, higher skill require to maintain the plane, hence cost.
Advancement = higher cost for parts -
berfuapaydin
The cost of bigger planes are expensive than the smaller ones and smaller ones probably are more environmental friendly.
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Eric Cho
When travelling shorter distances (ie.2 hrs), the extra $ of more leg room may not be worth it (ppl like to save money)
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joey7yoo
As a manager you would have to consider if the cost of the bigger plane would justify the additional costs for customers.
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Huijia Yang
Bigger planes may use more fuel and cost more, making prices higher. Thus customers have to pay more and demand might fall.
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Paul
Larger plane for the same amount of seats = higher price per seat since cost of gas per mile increases.
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victoriayang
Choosing bigger planes may mean higher maintenance costs, fuel costs, environmental damage, and costs have to be passed on to the customers.
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Maddie Ladner
Consumers won’t pay much more money for a same flight to accommodate for the extra costs that producing a bigger plane have.
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Peter Chen
Because the bigger the plane, the more costs are included eg. fuel & maintenance. Therefore, tickets could be more expensive.
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amnamasud
Bigger planes are costly to produce. Less customers would be willing to pay more $ for leg space.
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Darya Jalali
bigger planes equals more costs, but not necessarily more customers to fill the seats because it’s a more expensive plane ticket
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Taylor Tam
bigger planes are more expensive/less fuel efficient? Also less efficient when it’s not filled up with passengers, need more crew members
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Clarisa Madilao
Bigger planes are expensive to purchase, costly to maintain, consume more fuel and are less eco-friendly. It’s the customer who pays extra.
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Andrew Grange
As previously mentioned the article, the airline may not have as many pilots trained on the larger aircrafts.
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Karina Chadijah
Bigger planes add up to higher costs (fuel, maintenance, etc) causing it to be inefficient
Debbie 7:29 am on September 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
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