If not, we may as well accept the position that for short-haul, internal routes, air transport will prove absolutely uneconomic.
To merge with a short-haul undertaking would create greater difficulties than have to be solved.
Surely, the thing to do with these short-haul diesel trains is to cut out the first-class and to have one-class travel.
But the proliferation of short-haul mini aeroplanes is threatening disruption on a far larger scale.
Then, again, this corporation has to face the special problems of all short-haul operators.
A number of speakers referred to the flat rate 80p charge as discriminating against short-haul flights.
No doubt our aircraft industry could go on producing short-haul aircraft, and aircraft of other sorts, and it might do fairly well.
Its competitiveness and enthusiasm will be illustrated by its response to tender for a prototype short-haul diesel.
