If investors were questioning whether airline stocks could keep rallying, Delta Air Lines has provided an emphatic answer. The carrier’s fourth-quarter earnings and positive outlook for 2025 gave the sector’s stocks permission to take off again early Friday.

Shares of Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL rose 9.00% to $66.95 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 1.54% to 5,827.04 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 1.63% to 41,938.45.

Delta is set to report fourth-quarter results before the bell Friday, with analysts expecting revenue and adjusted profit to rise year-over-year.