Holiday travel
Holiday travel at ANC
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, AK. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against ANC’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at ANC
At ANC every holiday with a figure ran at or above ordinary days; Thanksgiving did best (+8.9 points) and Memorial Day came closest to usual (+1.4).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at ANC and sets it against ANC’s own ordinary days of the same weekdays in the weeks around it. Open a holiday for its day-by-day figures.
| Holiday | On time | Gap from usual, points | Cancelled | Worst day | Best day | All airports, gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanksgiving3 times in the data | 90.0%usual 81.1% | +8.9betteryears: 3 better | 0.36%usual 1.30% | Saturday after (years pooled) | Wednesday before (years pooled) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 81.2%usual 78.9% | +2.3about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 1.72%usual 2.99% | December 27 (years pooled) | January 2 (years pooled) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 87.3%usual 80.5% | +6.8betteryears: 4 better | 0.76%usual 1.03% | July 1 (years pooled) | July 4 (years pooled) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 88.0%usual 86.6% | +1.4about the sameyears: 1 better, 2 about the same | 0.84%usual 0.57% | Sunday before (years pooled) | Memorial Day (years pooled) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 90.0%usual 83.9% | +6.1betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.65%usual 0.57% | Saturday before (years pooled) | Sunday before (years pooled) | +4.2better |
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.