bus-stop flight

plural bus-stop flights

1. aeronauticsA 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

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   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

   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