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Let ‘em fly: Mullet Toss returns to the Flora-Bama this weekend Updated 10:38 AM; Facebook Share It’s almost time to fling some fish: The Flora-Bama’s annual Interstate Mullet Toss opens Friday and runs through Sunday. As the accompanying images illustrate, the central activity is a competition in which children, adults and local beach celebrities go for distance records as they fling small fish from Florida into Alabama. Between participants, spectators and collateral activity such as l...

Rex Australia deputy chairman claims Qantas is trying to ‘undermine’ the airline21/04/2021|6min A war of words has broken out between two Australian airlines as carriers battle for crucial business in the pandemic era. Rex Australia has expanded operating routes despite challenges posed by COVID but Qantas challenged the airline’s viability after it added Sydney to Melbourne flights on the route already used by Qantas and Virgin. “My personal view is that this market has never sustaine...

AS the first of the planes took off from the Sydney tarmac bound for Canberra, the public face behind the airline entering the market is promising additional discount fares between Australia’s other major cities. Rex Airlines has introduced an initial $99 one-way fare on the prize route from the nation’s largest city to its national capital. But airline deputy chairman John Sharp said Rex plans to offer more affordable flights from Canberra out of Melbourne first and then from Brisbane and ...

Airline Ratings Qantas is sending in “all the cavalry” to attack REX claims its deputy chairman John Sharp. “It reminds me of the bitter war between Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and then Virgin Australia boss John Borghetti that led to the biggest loss in Qantas’s history and the beginning of the end of Virgin.” “At the time Alan Joyce said that for every aircraft that Virgin Australia put in the sky he would put in two,” Mr. Sharp said. “Today’s announcement of the deplo...

Help Wanted: Alabama restaurants and hospitality industry scrambles to find workers AL.com 56 mins ago John Sharp, al.com © Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com/Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com Elizabeth Wilson waits on customers with her face mask on. On the first day that restaurants are allowed to reopen, Billys Sports Grill did just that. The restaurant on Overton Road near Liberty Park opened at 11 a.m. with social distancing and sanitation practices in place. Big Oh’s Korean infu...

Share Regional Express is poised to break Qantas’ current monopoly on the Sydney-Canberra route with the launch of its own flights to the capital city starting 19 April. The ambitious plan will match Qantas busy schedule with seven return Rex flights each day; fares will go on sale later this week from AUD99 one-way. Rex is expected to begin Sydney-Canberra flights using its workhorse 33-seat all-economy Saab 340B turboprops, but with the scope to swap in the larger Boeing 737 jets – with e...

09 Apr 2021 Regional Express (Rex) is once again taking on Qantas by announcing new flights between Sydney and Canberra from 19 April. With fares from just $99 one way, the airline plans to kick off the service with seven return flights a day, but may ramp it up to 10 a day if patronage is good. Before COVID, the route attracted almost one million annual passengers, making it a big enough market for Rex and Qantas to share, but leaving enough...

, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When M. Katherine Banks became the new engineering school dean at Texas A&M University in 2012, an associate dean drove her to the Zachry building, the heart of the university’s engineering program in College Station. He pulled into the basement-level garage and honked the horn twice — a preventive measure to scare off skunks that infested the aging facility. Above them, the building reeked of mold. Eng...

M. Katherine Banks, Texas A&M’s incoming president, says she’s planning for a campus in “normal mode” this fall Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  , our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When M. Katherine Banks became the new engineering school dean at Texas A&M University in 2012, an associate dean drove her to the Zachry building, the heart of the university’s engineering program in College Station. He pulled into the basement-level gara...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Texas A&Ms incoming president says shes planning for campus to return to normal mode this fall KATE MCGEE, The Texas Tribune April 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail When M. Katherine Banks became the new engineering school dean at Texas A&M University in 2012, an associate dean drove her to the Zachry building, the heart of the university’s engineering program in College Station. He pulled into the basement-level garage and honked the horn twice — a preven...