Holiday travel
Memorial Day at ABE
Lehigh Valley International Airport, Allentown, PA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against ABE’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The window, year by year
The window runs the Saturday through the Monday, around Memorial Day (the last Monday of May). In the data: May 25–27, 2024; May 24–26, 2025; May 23–25, 2026. Three windows are in the data: enough to see whether a day repeats, not enough to call it a rule.
| Year | Departures | On time | Usual | Gap, points | Cancelled | Usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024May 25–27, 2024 | 40 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025May 24–26, 2025 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2026May 23–25, 2026 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — |
| All years3 windows | 97 | — | — | — | — | — |
Day by day
No single day has enough flights to print a rate here, so there is no chart. The table below still lists every day, with dashes where the flights are too few.
| Day | Departures against an ordinary day | On time | Usual | Gap, points | Cancelled | Each year: 2024, 2025, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday beforeoutside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — |
| Friday beforeoutside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — |
| Saturday before | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — |
| Sunday before | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — |
| Memorial Day | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — |
| Tuesday afteroutside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — |
A dash means fewer than 120 flights stood behind the figure, or behind the ordinary days it would be compared with: too few to print a rate, and nothing is estimated in its place. “Usual” is what ordinary days of the same weekday had at the same place in the weeks around the holiday, weighted by the flights being compared.
Which departure times held up
The busiest days at ABE were Sunday, May 26, 2024 (16 departures), Monday, May 27, 2024 (13 departures), Sunday, May 25, 2025 (12 departures), Monday, May 26, 2025 (8 departures), Sunday, May 24, 2026 (12 departures), and Monday, May 25, 2026 (11 departures).
ABE has too few flights in each departure window to compare them.
| Leaving | On time, whole window | Usual | Gap, points | On time, busiest days | Usual | Gap, points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5–9 AM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 AM–12 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12–3 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3–6 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6–9 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 PM–5 AM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
ABE beside every covered airport
Storms and outages move whole regions at once. This puts ABE’s year beside the year of all covered airports together, each against its own usual, to show whether ABE did better or worse than the network.
| Year | ABE on time | ABE, gap from usual | All airports on time | All airports, gap from usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024May 25–27, 2024 | — | — | 72.7% | −2.3 |
| 2025May 24–26, 2025 | — | — | 76.4% | +1.4 |
| 2026May 23–25, 2026 | — | — | 75.0% | 0.0 |
For every holiday at once, see the five holidays at ABE, or the network view.