Gas setback

Delta has quietly cancelled its plan to cancel selected off-peak flights that have light loads as a tactic to save on the fuel that's been harder to get since the hurricanes hobbled oil refineries in Delta's southeastern home territory. The airline says fuel supplies are reliable again, if reliably expensive; cynics say that the plan was technologically over-complicated because cancellations wouldn't be decided on until a day or two before the flight, leaving little time to alert those flyers who didn't tote a PDA, cell-phone or other hi-tech devoice. And the opportunity for misunderstanding, miscommunication, and mischief and passenger anger was pretty high as well.

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