Holiday travel
Holiday travel at HNL
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu, HI. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against HNL’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at HNL
At HNL every holiday with a figure ran at or above ordinary days; Memorial Day did best (+5.4 points) and Christmas to New Year’s came closest to usual (+1.9).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at HNL and sets it against HNL’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 | 88.9%usual 85.0% | +3.9betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.21%usual 0.98% | Sunday after (three of three) | Friday after (two of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 84.0%usual 82.1% | +1.9betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.53%usual 1.13% | Moved each year | January 1 (two of three) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 89.4%usual 84.3% | +5.1betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.33%usual 0.78% | July 5 (two of four) | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 89.9%usual 84.5% | +5.4betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.94%usual 0.76% | Moved each year | Memorial Day (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 91.6%usual 89.4% | +2.2betteryears: 1 better, 2 about the same | 0.21%usual 0.90% | Saturday before (two of three) | Sunday before (three 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.