Page 115 - John Sharp News Today

Share Regional Express (Rex) has gatecrashed the country’s busiest domestic airline route between Sydney and Melbourne. Since the start of March, they have been busy flying the 90-minute sector, trying to snatch market share off incumbent airlines Qantas, Jetstar, and Virgin Australia. Normally, there is enough two-way traffic between Sydney and Melbourne to make this domestic route the second busiest in the world. Last year, traffic was down to one or two flights a day. Now it is coming back...

Link Virgin Australia has responded to rival Rexs airfare sale on the Sydney-Melbourne route by matching the price.  Rexs fares are on offer for travel up to August 28, with Virgin offering travel dates up to December 15. Prior to COVID-19, Sydney-Melbourne was the second-busiest air route in the world and, after disappearing from the rankings during last years lockdowns, it recently climbed back into the top 10 following a rebound in travel between the two cities. ...

Virgin and Jetstar soon followed, offering fares at similar prices on what is currently the seventh busiest flight route in the world. Rex deputy chairman John Sharp said he hoped the sale would reignite the domestic market and boost tourist numbers between the two major cities. It comes after both cities were excluded from the government’s discount tickets measure intended to stimulate the tourism industry. “Peak tourism bodies reported yesterday that flagship stimulus programs from state ...

Aussie airfare wars: Rex, Jetstar and Virgin launch cheap fares with flights as low as $30 3 May, 2021 03:59 AM 3 minutes to read A huge flight sale has dropped the price of a one-way ticket between Sydney and Melbourne. Photo / 123RF A huge flight sale has dropped the price of a one-way ticket between Sydney and Melbourne. Photo / 123RF news.com.au By: Gerard Cockburn A price war in Australia over cheap flights has just intensified with Jetstar revealing it will offer thousands of discounted d...

Executive Traveller Here’s some backstory on the brawl brewing down under. You’ll find first the article from Rex CEO John Sharp, and then you can read Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s retort below. John sounds like the guy running the punk upstart who is trying to stir up trouble. Nothing wrong with that. Alan sounds like an angry corporate CEO who is throwing barbs (safety, seriously?) and whining which is a very odd choice. It does not make Qantas look good at all. Image of the Week Oh my, ...

Jump to navigation By  04/28/2021 A neighbor appealed the Bolinas Community Land Trust’s downtown affordable housing project last week, citing concerns with the buildings’ impact on his property. The land trust is digging in its heels ahead of a Board of Supervisors hearing anticipated in early June, and said the appeal would delay the project by several months. The proposed eight-unit complex at 31 Wharf Road is large for Bolinas, but so is the need. The town is suffering from an ...

Netflix launches charm offensive for Byron Baes We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size A tsunami-sized wave of opposition to Netflix’s docuseries Byron Baes really is the coastal disaster the US-owned streaming service never saw coming. But after plunging an already substantial investment into the series – which Netflix’s local director of content, former ABC executive Que Minh Luu dubbed a “no-brainer” – the streamin...

How Australia’s global gold standard on gun control is being eroded Elias Visontay © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images It was a Sunday, and gun control advocate and expert Rebecca Peters was at home listening to the radio when she heard there had been a shooting in Tasmania. “Over the course of a couple of hours,” she recalls, “it went from being at least eight dead to 10 to 14 people dead. The number kept going up, and as it exceeded the nu...

By Alfred Chua2021-04-23T04:15:00+01:00 The heads of Australian arch-rivals Qantas and Regional Express have again traded barbs in the latest escalation of a bitter dogfight between the two carriers. In separate, harshly-worded columns published days apart in the Australian Financial Review, Rex deputy chairman John Sharp and Qantas group chief Alan Joyce did not mince words in criticising each other.  Source: Rex Rex recently took delivery of its sixth 737-800, registered VH-RYU. Sharp fir...

Texas A&M trains over 200 employees of FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies in COVID-19 vaccine making Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Texas A&M University System and last updated 2021-04-22 17:15:02-04 COLLEGE STATION, TX — The Texas A&M University System is collaborating with FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas to train their workforce that is mass-producing two COVID-19 vaccine candidate...