B Of A Securities analyst Andrew G. Didora raised estimates for Delta Air Lines, Inc. DAL ahead of the fourth-quarter earnings release while reiterating a Buy rating and a price forecast of $72. The company plans to release the December quarter and full-year 2024 financial results on January 10, 2025. The analyst writes that Delta was one of the few airlines that did not update its fourth-quarter guidance in December. With several airlines reporting revenue upside, the analyst has raised DAL's fourth-quarter revenue growth estimate to +4.3% from +3.6%, slightly above the top end of the +2 to 4% outlook. Didora expects fourth-quarter unit costs to rise by 3.0%, which is in line with guidance, and fuel costs to fall in the upper half of the guided range. This leads to the analyst's EPS estimate of $1.78 (Visible Alpha consensus $1.77), at the high end of the $1.60-$1.85 guidance range for the quarter.