Editorial: Since our city’s airport is too small to handle increasing air traffic, analysts propose building a second airport to benefit our city’s economy by allowing more flights and hence attracting more visitors. But this plan would not succeed. If flights to different cities were inconveniently divided between two airports, fewer travelers would make flight connections in our city.

Editorial: Since our city’s airport is too small to handle increasing air traffic, analysts propose building a second airport to benefit our city’s economy by allowing more flights and hence attracting more visitors. But this plan would not succeed. If flights to different cities were inconveniently divided between two airports, fewer travelers would make flight connections in our city.

Which of the following would, if true, most seriously weaken the editorial’s argument that the plan would not succeed’
A . A reduction in travelers flying to a city’s airport merely to make flight connections does not preclude a significant increase in travelers visiting the city itself.
B . The number of flights to an airport typically increases as the number of travelers making flight connections increases.
C . Building a second airport would not benefit the city’s economy unless it increased the number of travelers through the city’s airport.
D . If fewer travelers make flight connections through an airport, the number of flights through that airport typically declines.
E . Some of the cities that, for their size, attract relatively large numbers of visitors have only one airport.

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Answer: A