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An airline has two types of passengers: business passengers with fairly tight schedules and inelastic demand for airline flights and vacation passengers with flexible schedules

An airline has two types of passengers: business passengers with fairly tight schedules and inelastic demand for airline flights and vacation passengers with flexible schedules and more elastic demand for airline flights. The tables below show the demand information for both types of passengers and the market demand for a single airline flight.

Business Traveler Demand


Vacation Traveler Demand


Market Demand

Same Price for All Passengers

Price

(dollars)

Quantity

Demanded

(seats)

Marginal

Revenue

(dollars)


Price

(dollars)

Quantity

Demanded

(seats)

Marginal

Revenue

(dollars)


Price

(dollars)

Quantity

Demanded

(seats)

Marginal

Revenue

(dollars)

$500

0

—


$500

0

—


$500

0

—

450

25

$400


450

0

—


450

25

$400.00

400

50

300


400

0

—


400

50

300.00

350

75

200


350

50

$300


350

125

266.67

300

100

100


300

100

200


300

200

166.67

250

125

0


250

150

100


250

275

66.67

200

150



200

200

0


200

350

16.67

150

175



150

250



150

425


100

200



100

300



100

500


50

225



50

350



50

575


0

250



0

400



0

650



1. If the airline can charge only one price to all passengers and its marginal cost of supplying a seat on a flight is $300, the airline will sell seats and charge a price of $ for each seat.

2. If the airline can charge different prices to the two different types of passengers and its marginal cost of supplying a seat is still $300 per seat, then business travelers will buy seats at a price of $ per seat and vacation travelers will buy seats at a price of $ per seat.

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