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The sky's the limit as Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations, and take a look at Britain's smaller airlines. Fly Me. Try Me
One airline takes off from a pebble beach in the Western Isles and offers the shortest scheduled flight in the country ...just two minutes. Another, in Suffolk, uses a grass airstrip and boasts in-flight cuisine prepared by the neighbours.
But despite the enthusiasm of the entrepreneur, why has air travel within Britain never really taken off?
Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
0 YOURS LOCALLY: pages 74-75

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David Clayton
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