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名詞

bus-stop flight (複数形 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.