Holiday travel
Holiday travel at DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas–Fort Worth, TX. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against DFW’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at DFW
At DFW, Labor Day ran furthest below ordinary days (−11.3 points) and July 4 furthest above (+6.5 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at DFW and sets it against DFW’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 | 77.2%usual 79.2% | −2.0worseyears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.54%usual 0.96% | Saturday after (two of three) | Thanksgiving Day (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 73.8%usual 76.8% | −3.0worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 1.92%usual 2.25% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 71.4%usual 64.9% | +6.5betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.32%usual 2.29% | July 5 (two of four) | July 3 (two of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 56.6%usual 65.7% | −9.1worseyears: 3 worse | 5.60%usual 3.33% | Memorial Day (three of three) | Saturday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 65.3%usual 76.6% | −11.3worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 4.04%usual 0.74% | Sunday before (two of three) | Saturday 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.