The airline says higher fares are the only way to keep up with rising fuel costs. Delta spent $1 billion more on fuel in this year's third quarter than last year's.

Delta Airlines' primary headquarters and hub in Atlanta is flourishing. Not so at other hub cities. Since Delta absorbed Northwest Airlines, the Twin Cities area has lost 3,000 jobs associated with the carrier. In Memphis the number of flights has been nearly halved, pushing up air fares to the second highest in the nation. Behind Cincinnati. Which is also a Delta hub.

The airline announced its expecting big profits this year despite spending $3 billion more on fuel.

The Austin-based food maker says strong demand for its Jennie-O products and Spam helped boost sales in the quarter that ended in April.

A record year at Delta Airlines is coming back to Minnesota workers in the form of profit sharing. Not all of the state's 12,000 are eligible, but those who are will get a bonus of nearly five percent of their salary.

The food giant is lowering its earnings expectations. An analyst with Bloomberg says food companies are seeing year-over-year cost increases at the same time that shoppers continue to be frugal.

The Austin-based company reports earnings for refrigerated foods were down 44 percent in the first quarter. Hormel says leaner profit margins for pork were a big ingredient in that. CEO and President Jeff Ettinger expects slowly improving results this year.

Mendota Heights-based Sun Country Airlines launched their 'Everyone Must Go Sale' with one-way fares as low as $79. The deal is only available until Tuesday. Travel must be done between now and Dec. 15.