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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Megan Chan
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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.
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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
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Gabriel MacTavish
Because bigger planes cost more to fuel. Companies also want to maximize the amount of people on each plane.
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ioannissakarellos
We do not choose the biggest planes because the cost of production and operational costs are higher.
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pialim95
The cost of fuel, labour, and maintenance for bigger planes will be too much considering the number of passengers remains constant.
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Jessica Ng
Bigger planes cost more to maintain. Since WestJet does not fly international flights, will people be willing to pay extra for leg room?
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Clement Hue Yat Kong
Bigger planes means more costs and maintenance, bigger damage to environment, need of a larger storage space leading to increased price.
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Priyanka Vasudev
The cost to operate a bigger plane is substantially larger than a smaller plane in terms of fuel costs and maintenance.
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Kwok Ching Him
Bigger planes = Heavier –> Weight.–> but passenger demand wouldn’t flucate too much.
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Michael Worthington
Costs of fueling bigger planes is much greater than fueling the smaller ones. Also there’s usually enough space on the current planes.
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Nicholas Everett
Easier to fill small plane = max seating. Smaller plane = lower cost/flight than bigger plane.Max seating + lower costs = efficient profits.
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Riley Guttman
It’s inefficient. You won’t fill up a big plane on every flight route, so you’re wasting costs on a plane too big for your job.
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ziluezheng
given that the number of customers stay the same, the bigger the plan the higher the cost. this lowers the profit of the company
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alexischow
The cost of producing and maintaining a bigger plane is much more than the extra amount that customers are willing to pay for more leg room.
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pialim95
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Cole Christiansen 7:36 am on September 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Also, it is more cost effective to fly a greater number of mid-sized planes to a variety of locations, rather than to fly few big planes