Hatfield Airport, the Closest Airport to the City of Hatfield GMAT Critical Reasoning

Question: Hatfield Airport, the closest airport to the city of Hatfield, has recently opened a new terminal for AirJet International, a popular low-cost airline. Since the terminal has opened, Hatfield Airport has welcomed significantly more customers, to the extent that airline staff members have complained that they can no longer serve their customers efficiently. If AirJet International were to move their major terminal to the more remote Chesterfield Airport, the staff argues, the customers of both AirJet and the airlines based at Hatfield Airport would be happier.

Which of the following is an assumption that supports drawing the conclusion above from the reasons given for that conclusion?

1. The increased traffic at the airport is due to the popularity of AirJet's flights.
2. Other airlines based at Hatfield Airport are not as widely used as AirJet.
3. Customers are unhappy with the slowness of service at Hartsfield Airport.
4. Chesterfield Airport has been losing customers since the AirJet terminal at Hatfield opened.
5. AirJet customers would not mind travelling further from Hatfield, since AirJet's low fares save them money.

Hatfield Airport the closest airport to the city of Hatfield has recently opened a new terminal for AirJet International a popular low cost airline- is a GMAT Critical question. This particular GMAT Critical Reasoning topic has been taken from the book ‘GMAT Official Guide verbal review 2018’. This particular topic is the Assumption and conclusion type of question. For this type, the candidates need to provide an assumption which supports the conclusion provided in the passage. GMAT critical reasoning tests the logical and analytical skills of the candidates. Critical reasoning in GMAT requires candidates to find the strengths and weaknesses of the argument, or find the logical flaw in the argument.  The GMAT CR section contains 10 -13 GMAT critical reasoning questions out of 36 GMAT verbal questions.

Answer: A

Explanation:

A GMAT Critical Reasoning section comprises some facts and statements. GMAT critical reasoning tests the reasoning, logical and analytical thinking abilities of the candidate. The candidate has to deduce the correct option by finding the logically correct argument or by eliminating the irrelevant arguments.

As per the question given, we know that:

Hatfield Airport is close to city and recently opened a new terminal for AirJet International which is a popular low-cost airline. Since the terminal opened, the Airport has welcomed significantly more customers,
However, the customer service has suffered.

We can draw the conclusion:

If AirJet moved their major terminal to further away from Chesterfield Airport, the customers of both AirJet and the airlines based at Hatfield Airport would be happier.
Now, we will need an assumption that will support the conclusion - something that must be true for the conclusion to hold.

In suggesting to move the Airjet terminal, we are assuming that the extra traffic is because of Airjet and once it moves, the customer service will improve. Now, we will check each options one by one.

1. The increased traffic at the airport is due to the popularity of AirJet's flights. – If Airjet is not the cause of increased traffic (and it is just a coincidence that since the Airjet terminal was opened, traffic has increased) then moving Airjet won't resolve current problems and people will not be happier. Hence, this option is correct.
2. Other airlines based at Hatfield Airport are not as widely used as AirJet. – This statement is irrelevant. We know that before Airjet, things were better than after Airjet. The relative popularity of airlines is irrelevant.
3. Customers are unhappy with the slowness of service at Hartsfield Airport. – We don't know why customers are unhappy. We know that the service is not efficient. Are they unable to provide services or is there delay in providing services, we don't know. We don't need "slowness" to be the reason for unhappiness.
4. Chesterfield Airport has been losing customers since the AirJet terminal at Hatfield opened. – This argument is irrelevant. We don't need to assume that Chesterfield airport is losing customers.
5. AirJet customers would not mind travelling further from Hatfield, since AirJet's low fares save them money. – We don't need to assume that they would not mind travelling the extra bit. They may mind but the great service at Chesterfield airport might more than make up for it and they may be happier. So this is not an assumption we need to make for our conclusion to be true.

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