Holiday travel
Holiday travel at DTW
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit, MI. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against DTW’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at DTW
At DTW, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−15.3 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+5.7 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at DTW and sets it against DTW’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 | 67.5%usual 82.8% | −15.3worseyears: 1 about the same, 2 worse | 1.25%usual 0.81% | Sunday after (two of three) | Thanksgiving Day (two of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 74.4%usual 73.2% | +1.2betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 1.46%usual 1.50% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 79.0%usual 74.3% | +4.7betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 1.16%usual 2.04% | July 1 (two of four) | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 78.3%usual 79.1% | −0.8about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 0.44%usual 0.88% | Sunday before (two of three) | Moved each year | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 89.8%usual 84.1% | +5.7betteryears: 3 better | 0.34%usual 0.70% | Moved each year | 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.