We know that Arnold got kicked off an overbooked plane flight. As a result, he missed his meeting. Arnold wants compensation even though the flight he was supposed to originally be on actually got canceled.
Jamie doesn't think the airline should have to pay Arnold. She reasons that even if he hadn't been denied a seat, he would've missed his business meeting anyway.
We're looking for an answer choice that justifies Jamie's response to Arnold. This is a strengthen with a sufficient premise question. The prompt gives us the first part of the answer, and we need to pick the answer choice that has the rest of it.
Jamie's rationale is that Arnold shouldn't get compensated because his original flight got canceled anyway. If we stated that if one is bumped from a flight that gets canceled anyway, the airline doesn't have to pay that person, we would justify Jamie's conclusion.
Bumped from flight that got canceled anyway - >Airline doesn't have to pay
However, the prompt gives us a sufficient condition for when an airline is obligated to pay a passenger.
Airline has to pay - >
Interestingly enough, if we take the contrapositive of our anticipated answer, we get
Airline has to pay - >Bumped from flight that didn't get canceled.
Now we know what we're looking for in the answer choices.
(C) says, "only if the passenger would not have been forced to take a later flight had the airline not overbooked the original flight"
(C) is exactly what we anticipated. With the first part of the prompt that we've been given, (C) states that an airline is obligated to compensate a passenger who's been denied a seat on a flight for which the passenger has confirmed reservations only if the passenger would not have been forced to take a later flight had the airline not overbooked the original flight.
(C) can be mapped as
Airline has to pay - >Bumped from flight that didn't get canceled
This matches our anticipation.
Arnold's original flight was canceled and wouldn't have worked, so according to this, he shouldn't get paid. (C) is the correct answer.
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