Holiday travel

Holiday travel at JAX

Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville, FL. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against JAX’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.

History, not a forecast. This shows what happened in past holiday windows. It cannot say what this year will bring, and each holiday appears only a few times in the data, so one bad storm can decide a whole year. Check your airline for your own flight.

The five holidays at JAX

At JAX, Memorial Day ran furthest below ordinary days (−6.2 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+6.3 points).

Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at JAX and sets it against JAX’s own ordinary days of the same weekdays in the weeks around it. Open a holiday for its day-by-day figures.

The five holidays at JAX against its ordinary days
HolidayOn timeGap from usual, pointsCancelledWorst dayBest dayAll airports, gap
Thanksgiving3 times in the data82.1%usual 84.0%−1.9about the sameyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse0.41%usual 0.58%Sunday after (years pooled)Thanksgiving Day (years pooled)−2.1worse
Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data78.7%usual 81.4%−2.7worseyears: 1 about the same, 2 worse1.25%usual 1.69%December 29 (years pooled)December 31 (years pooled)−3.2worse
July 44 times in the data77.1%usual 71.3%+5.8betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse1.63%usual 2.87%July 2 (years pooled)July 4 (years pooled)+5.2better
Memorial Day3 times in the data71.3%usual 77.5%−6.2worseyears: 1 about the same, 2 worse0.81%usual 1.32%Sunday before (years pooled)Saturday before (years pooled)−0.3about the same
Labor Day3 times in the data87.2%usual 80.9%+6.3betteryears: 1 better, 2 about the same0.81%usual 1.99%Labor Day (years pooled)Saturday before (years pooled)+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.