bus-stop flight
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Noun
bus-stop flight (plural bus-stop flights)
- (aviation) A regular short-haul flight that carries passengers.
- 1967, The Metal Bulletin, page 17:
- It was a coastal "bus stop" flight, calling at Carnarvon, where banana plantations line the Gascoyne river […]
- 1969, The Economist, volume 233, page 78:
- The only short-haul, inter-city air service in the country is closing down: Channel Airways has announced that its bus-stop flights that went from Southend to Scotland by way of Luton, Bradford and Newcastle […]
- 1964, Education and Training, volume 6, page 184:
- Every day RAE runs a special aircraft from Farnborough on a bus-stop flight to these outstations in the same way that industrial groups maintain their own car services.
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