Holiday travel

Holiday travel at LAS

Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas, NV. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against LAS’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 LAS

At LAS, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−2.7 points) and Memorial Day furthest above (+5.8 points).

Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at LAS and sets it against LAS’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 LAS against its ordinary days
HolidayOn timeGap from usual, pointsCancelledWorst dayBest dayAll airports, gap
Thanksgiving3 times in the data86.4%usual 82.5%+3.9betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same0.31%usual 0.61%Sunday after (two of three)Thanksgiving Day (two of three)−2.1worse
Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data80.1%usual 82.8%−2.7worseyears: 1 better, 2 worse0.65%usual 0.97%Moved each yearChristmas Day (two of three)−3.2worse
July 44 times in the data74.0%usual 70.8%+3.2betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse0.89%usual 1.24%Moved each yearJuly 4 (three of four)+5.2better
Memorial Day3 times in the data79.6%usual 73.8%+5.8betteryears: 3 better0.41%usual 0.64%Memorial Day (three of three)Saturday before (three of three)−0.3about the same
Labor Day3 times in the data80.6%usual 77.7%+2.9betteryears: 1 better, 2 about the same0.63%usual 1.07%Labor Day (two of three)Sunday 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.