Airplanes

[tdkk123]

The only airline providing service for our town announces that because the service is unprofitable, it will discontinue this service next year. Town officials have urged the community to use the airline's service more frequently so that the airline will change its decision. There is no reason to comply with their recommendation, however, for just last week these same officials drove to an out-of-town conference instead of flying.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it presumes, without providing justification, that

A. Increasing the number of tickets sold without increasing ticket prices will be sufficient to make continued air service economically feasible.
B. Suspending service and losing money by continuing service are the airline's only options.
C. The town officials paid for their trip with taxpayers' money rather than their own money.
D. Ground transportation is usually no less expensive than airplane transportation.
E. If the town officials did not follow their own advice, then that advice is not worth following.

Please help with reasoning.

[cans]

A) nothing mentioned about ticket price.
B) again nothing mentioned. (unprofitable and losing money are not same)
C) out of context. nothing is mentioned regarding this.
D) irrelevant
E) Correct. Conclusion is based on these lines only. (There is no reason to comply with recommendation because they themselves don't follow it.)

[dhonu121]

I guess, the reasoning that they are talking about here is the conclusion of the argument.
Essentially, this is a weaken the conclusion question.
Also, here we have to pick the answer choice that is the assumption in the argument while deriving the conclusion.
Hnce E is the right answer.
OA please.

[tdkk123]

OA e

[navami]

Now what is the assumption behind the argument??/
It says ..


The only airline providing service for our town announces that because the service is unprofitable, it will discontinue this service next year. Town officials have urged the community to use the airline's service more frequently so that the airline will change its decision. There is no reason to comply with their recommendation, however, for just last week these same officials drove to an out-of-town conference instead of flying.


now underlined part is conclusion. The author says, the advice of the officials will not work as ... they themselves are not following that...

now look into the options available.

A. Increasing the number of tickets sold without increasing ticket prices will be sufficient to make continued air service economically feasible.
B. Suspending service and losing money by continuing service are the airline's only options.
C. The town officials paid for their trip with taxpayers' money rather than their own money.
D. Ground transportation is usually no less expensive than airplane transportation.
E. If the town officials did not follow their own advice, then that advice is not worth following.