Holiday travel
Holiday travel at CLT
Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against CLT’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at CLT
At CLT, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−3.5 points) and July 4 furthest above (+7.4 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at CLT and sets it against CLT’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 | 77.9%usual 81.4% | −3.5worseyears: 3 worse | 0.51%usual 0.49% | Sunday after (two of three) | Thanksgiving Day (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 75.2%usual 78.2% | −3.0worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 0.56%usual 1.54% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 71.9%usual 64.5% | +7.4betteryears: 4 better | 0.97%usual 2.60% | July 1 (two of four) | July 4 (two of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 72.5%usual 69.6% | +2.9betteryears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 0.36%usual 0.84% | Moved each year | Memorial Day (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 76.7%usual 74.9% | +1.8betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 2.06%usual 1.21% | Moved each year | Sunday before (two of three) | +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.