It is easy to understand why a Caribbean operator might choose to operate over many over water sectors. But there is surely no more absurd illustration of the practice than the short lived and financially disastrous experiment of the late Channel Airways
( bankrupt in 1972). They operated what they called the Bus Stop Jet. For it they used a Viscount with the optimistic tail logo which said "Continental Golden Jet". The route was Portsmouth-Southend-Stansted-East Midlands-Leeds-Teeside-Newcastle-Edinburgh-Aberdeen. It never made any money and not even the most hardened Channel Airways pasengers would use it for such a gruelling journey. That airline was widely accepted as the worst British airline ever.