bus-stop flight

English

Noun

bus-stop flight (plural bus-stop flights)

  1. (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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