Holiday travel
Holiday travel at DAL
Dallas Love Field, Dallas, TX. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against DAL’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at DAL
At DAL, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−10.2 points) and July 4 furthest above (+8.9 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at DAL and sets it against DAL’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 | 83.2%usual 81.6% | +1.6betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.20%usual 0.69% | Sunday after (two of three) | Moved each year | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 72.5%usual 82.7% | −10.2worseyears: 3 worse | 0.95%usual 2.06% | Moved each year | Christmas Day (two of three) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 75.6%usual 66.7% | +8.9betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.64%usual 0.93% | July 2 (two of four) | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 62.8%usual 66.6% | −3.8worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 0.72%usual 1.04% | Memorial Day (two of three) | Saturday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 75.5%usual 82.6% | −7.1worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 0.32%usual 0.47% | 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.