airline stocks fell before market open friday after delta air lines inc gave weakerthanexpected guidance for the first quarter the carrier’s fourthquarter results beat analysts’ top and bottom line estimates but its stock fell 44 premarket on weak guidance delta dal forecast firstquarter earnings of 15 cents to 40 cents a share analysts surveyed by factset were looking for earnings of 59 cents a share see now delta air lines’ q4 results beat analysts’ top and bottom line estimates stock falls on weakerthanexpected guidance american airlines group inc aal is down 29 before market open while united airlines holding inc ual is down 21 southwest airlines co’s luv stock is down 17 jetblue airways corp jblu is down 23 and alaska air group inc alk is down 13 spirit airlines inc’s save stock is down 08 the us global jets etf jets is down 19 the airline industry is attempting to recover from the impact of pandemicera travel restrictions in a statement released friday delta said that consumer demand remains robust strong demand in the fourth quarter drove domestic total passenger revenue 7 percent higher compared with the same quarter in 2019 before the pandemic hit the company said international passenger revenue was up 5 percent in the fourth quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2019 see now faa computer outage leads to nearly 10000 us flights delayed “momentum continues in 2023 with strong demand trends and we expect march quarter adjusted revenue to be 14 to 17 percent higher than 2019 on capacity that is 1 percent lower” said delta president glen hauenstein in the statement airline stocks fell earlier this week after a federal aviation authority computer glitch grounded flights across the us for the first time since 911 sparking thousands of flight delays