Nothing To Do With The Bakken, But Interesting Front Page WSJ Story on Delta

Delta flies new route to profits: older jets, front page, section A, WSJ.

The nation's second biggest carrier stunned the industry by becoming the first airline to buy an oil refinery, in a bid to trim its highest and most volatile operating cost, aviation fuel. It runs a huge maintenance subsidiary that tends to its own planes and does third-party work, while other airlines have scaled down or bailed out of that business. And the Atlanta company has retained its status as the only major U.S. airline that is mostly nonunionized, giving it more flexibility than its rivals even as it pays most workers more.

One may want to read that last line again. Especially the Twinkies' unions.

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And speaking of Twinkies -- the PC. Dell, H-P --- staggering losses for Dell.