onomists reported by Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters. Separately released data from the ministry showed spending for households of two or more people fell by a price-adjusted 3.0% from a year earlier, as the effect of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami weighed on the result. The household spending figure also matched the consensus from the Dow Jones Newswires survey. In March, household spending had tumbled 8.5% year-on-yeand will be implemented until June 15," Kamaljeet Rattan, head of corporate communications, told Dow Jones Newswires. Another airline executive, who didn't want to be named, said some flights to London and Tokyo have been cancelled while a few local flights have been clubbed. Since December, oil suppliers have put Air India on a cash-and-carry basis to buy jet fuel, meaning that the airline has to pay each time it refuels its aircraft. Airlines normally have a 90-day credit period to pay their fuel bills, but oil companies refused to follow that structure with Air India after it defaulted on some payments. Rattan said Air India pays INR160 million as its daily fuel expense but is unable to pay more, even as jet fue" he continued."We're not going anywhere. The cameras may leave, the spotlight may shift, but we will be with you every step of the way until Joplin is restored, until this community is back on its feet.  The president spoke following remarks by ministers and laymen heavily doused with scripture and praise for Jesus. Many in the town have not had much more to rely on but faith and federal aid after a near mile-wide tornado last week killed at least 139 people and took out 2,000 buildings in its destructive wake. The bereaved survivors are trying now to recover from the worst tornado in decades, in what has racked up to be the deadliest tornado season in more than 50 years. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and others greeted Obama on the tarmac before they set out for their walking tour of a destroyed neighborhood. Nixon said that he personally had been moved by the show of volunteers, hundreds who traveled across the nation to be there to pass out blankets, pillows, sunscreen, sandwiches and flashlights.  "You need a flashlight because it gets pretty dark here at night, especially when you're standing in the middle of the street, staring at the pile of match sticks that was once your home," Nixon told the memorial service audience. Nixon said Joplin's re-emergence will be the result of those living out the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritans. "One year from today, Joplin will look different, and more different still in two years, and three and five. And as the years pass, the moral of our story will be the same: Love thy neighbor," he said. As Air Force One swept over the landscape, flattened houses and stripped trees offered a massive swath of brown. Looking around the neighborhood from the ground, Obama eyed boarded-up windows, damaged business signs, fallen trees, piles of debris and homes spray-painted with "God Bless Everyone"  With dozens still missing, homes marked with an X meant they had been searched already for missing loved ones.&