bus-stop flight

noun

bus-stop flight

noun

1

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A regular short-haul flight that carries passengers.

It was a coastal "bus stop" flight, calling at Carnarvon, where banana plantations line the Gascoyne river […]1967, The Metal Bulletin, page 17:
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 […]1969, The Economist, volume 233, page 78:

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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.1964, Education and Training, volume 6, page 184:

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