Holiday travel
Holiday travel at CMH
John Glenn Columbus International Airport, Columbus, OH. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against CMH’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at CMH
At CMH, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−1.9 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+5.1 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at CMH and sets it against CMH’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 | 82.7%usual 84.6% | −1.9about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 1.00%usual 0.96% | Sunday after (two of three) | Wednesday before (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 79.2%usual 80.2% | −1.0about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 0.70%usual 1.40% | December 29 (years pooled) | Christmas Day (years pooled) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 81.8%usual 77.4% | +4.4betteryears: 2 better, 2 about the same | 2.71%usual 2.71% | July 1 (two of three) | July 3 (three of three) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 79.6%usual 80.6% | −1.0about the sameyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 1.05%usual 1.08% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 89.5%usual 84.4% | +5.1betteryears: 1 better, 2 about the same | 0.40%usual 1.46% | 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.