Holiday travel

Holiday travel at CHS

Charleston International Airport, Charleston, SC. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against CHS’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.

History, not a forecast. This shows what happened in past holiday windows. It cannot say what this year will bring, and each holiday appears only a few times in the data, so one bad storm can decide a whole year. Check your airline for your own flight.

The five holidays at CHS

At CHS, Memorial Day ran furthest below ordinary days (−3.9 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+5.7 points).

Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at CHS and sets it against CHS’s own ordinary days of the same weekdays in the weeks around it. Open a holiday for its day-by-day figures.

The five holidays at CHS against its ordinary days
HolidayOn timeGap from usual, pointsCancelledWorst dayBest dayAll airports, gap
Thanksgiving3 times in the data82.7%usual 84.5%−1.8about the sameyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse0.72%usual 1.08%Sunday after (years pooled)Friday after (years pooled)−2.1worse
Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data80.8%usual 82.4%−1.6about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse1.08%usual 2.47%December 29 (years pooled)January 2 (years pooled)−3.2worse
July 44 times in the data77.8%usual 73.6%+4.2betteryears: 2 better, 2 about the same2.02%usual 3.33%July 1 (years pooled)July 4 (years pooled)+5.2better
Memorial Day3 times in the data74.4%usual 78.3%−3.9worseyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse0.45%usual 1.47%Memorial Day (years pooled)Saturday before (years pooled)−0.3about the same
Labor Day3 times in the data86.6%usual 80.9%+5.7betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same1.54%usual 1.76%Labor Day (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.