Holiday travel
July 4 at ILM
Wilmington International Airport, Wilmington, NC. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against ILM’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The window, year by year
The window runs July 1 through July 5, around July 4, whatever weekday it falls on. In the data: Jul 1–5, 2023; Jul 1–5, 2024; Jul 1–5, 2025; Jul 1–5, 2026. July 4 fell on a Tuesday in 2023, Thursday in 2024, Friday in 2025, and Saturday in 2026. Four windows are in the data: enough to see whether a day repeats, not enough to call it a rule.
July 4 flights were about as punctual as ordinary days in the one year measured. The gap was 5.7 points above usual in 2025.
3.61% of scheduled departures were cancelled across the July 4 windows, against 4.59% on ordinary days of the same weekdays. The rate stayed within a quarter point of usual in the one year measured.
| Year | Departures | On time | Usual | Gap, points | Cancelled | Usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023Jul 1–5, 2023 | 112 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024Jul 1–5, 2024 | 116 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025Jul 1–5, 2025 | 124 | 80.7% | 75.0% | +5.7about the same | 7.26% | 4.66% |
| 2026Jul 1–5, 2026 | 119 | — | — | — | — | — |
| All years4 windows | 471 | 79.7% | 74.6% | +5.1better | 3.61% | 4.59% |
Day by day
No single day has enough flights to print a rate here, so there is no chart. The table below still lists every day, with dashes where the flights are too few.
| Day | Departures against an ordinary day | On time | Usual | Gap, points | Cancelled | Each year: 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28Fri, Sat, Sun · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jun 29Sat, Sun, Mon · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jun 30Sun, Mon, Tue · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 1Sat, Mon, Tue, Wed | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 2Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 3Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| July 4Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 5Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 6Thu, Sat, Sun, Mon · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 7Fri, Sun, Mon, Tue · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
| Jul 8Sat, Mon, Tue, Wed · outside the window | — | — | — | — | — | — · — · — · — |
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.
Which departure times held up
The busiest days at ILM were Saturday, Jul 1, 2023 (25 departures), Wednesday, Jul 5, 2023 (25 departures), Monday, Jul 1, 2024 (24 departures), Wednesday, Jul 3, 2024 (26 departures), Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025 (26 departures), Thursday, Jul 3, 2025 (27 departures), Wednesday, Jul 1, 2026 (25 departures), and Sunday, Jul 5, 2026 (26 departures).
ILM has too few flights in each departure window to compare them.
| Leaving | On time, whole window | Usual | Gap, points | On time, busiest days | Usual | Gap, points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5–9 AM | 91.7% | 90.5% | +1.2about the same | — | — | — |
| 9 AM–12 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12–3 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3–6 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6–9 PM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 PM–5 AM | — | — | — | — | — | — |
ILM beside every covered airport
Storms and outages move whole regions at once. This puts ILM’s year beside the year of all covered airports together, each against its own usual, to show whether ILM did better or worse than the network.
| Year | ILM on time | ILM, gap from usual | All airports on time | All airports, gap from usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023Jul 1–5, 2023 | — | — | 73.9% | +2.9 |
| 2024Jul 1–5, 2024 | — | — | 82.2% | +11.7 |
| 2025Jul 1–5, 2025 | 80.7% | +5.7 | 73.5% | +2.3 |
| 2026Jul 1–5, 2026 | — | — | 73.1% | +3.2 |
For every holiday at once, see the five holidays at ILM, or the network view.