Holiday travel
Holiday travel at LAX
Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against LAX’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at LAX
At LAX, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−4.3 points) and July 4 furthest above (+3.9 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at LAX and sets it against LAX’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 | 86.4%usual 82.6% | +3.8betteryears: 2 better, 1 worse | 0.33%usual 0.60% | Wednesday before (two of three) | Thanksgiving Day (three of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 78.4%usual 82.7% | −4.3worseyears: 1 about the same, 2 worse | 0.72%usual 1.06% | December 26 (two of three) | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 80.4%usual 76.5% | +3.9betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.77%usual 1.16% | July 1 (two of four) | July 4 (four of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 82.8%usual 79.3% | +3.5betteryears: 3 better | 0.47%usual 0.51% | Memorial Day (three of three) | Sunday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 86.6%usual 82.8% | +3.8betteryears: 3 better | 0.30%usual 0.56% | Saturday before (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.