Holiday travel
Holiday travel at BUF
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, NY. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against BUF’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at BUF
At BUF, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−4.9 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+7.4 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at BUF and sets it against BUF’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 | 76.2%usual 81.1% | −4.9worseyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 1.47%usual 0.93% | Sunday after (years pooled) | Friday after (years pooled) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 74.6%usual 72.7% | +1.9about the sameyears: 2 better, 1 worse | 4.61%usual 4.47% | December 27 (years pooled) | December 24 (years pooled) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 75.4%usual 73.1% | +2.3about the sameyears: 1 better, 2 about the same, 1 worse | 3.35%usual 3.99% | July 1 (years pooled) | July 3 (years pooled) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 80.0%usual 80.8% | −0.8about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 1.28%usual 1.24% | Sunday before (years pooled) | Memorial Day (years pooled) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 86.2%usual 78.8% | +7.4betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.38%usual 1.93% | Sunday before (years pooled) | Labor Day (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.