Holiday travel
Holiday travel at DCA
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, DC. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against DCA’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at DCA
At DCA, Memorial Day ran furthest below ordinary days (−4.9 points) and July 4 furthest above (+7.6 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at DCA and sets it against DCA’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 | 79.7%usual 79.9% | −0.2about the sameyears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.70%usual 1.43% | Sunday after (three of three) | Thanksgiving Day (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 79.4%usual 75.8% | +3.6betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.77%usual 3.42% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 75.4%usual 67.8% | +7.6betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 4.02%usual 5.92% | July 1 (three of four) | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 70.5%usual 75.4% | −4.9worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 1.32%usual 2.08% | Sunday before (two of three) | Saturday before (three of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 85.0%usual 80.8% | +4.2betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.53%usual 2.14% | Saturday before (two of two) | Moved each year | +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.