Holiday travel
Holiday travel at MKE
Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee, WI. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against MKE’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at MKE
At MKE, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−12.7 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+6.0 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at MKE and sets it against MKE’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 | 70.9%usual 83.6% | −12.7worseyears: 1 about the same, 2 worse | 3.48%usual 0.78% | Sunday after (years pooled) | Thanksgiving Day (years pooled) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 76.1%usual 78.2% | −2.1worseyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 1.20%usual 2.20% | December 31 (years pooled) | Christmas Day (years pooled) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 79.4%usual 76.2% | +3.2betteryears: 1 better, 3 about the same | 2.44%usual 2.28% | July 1 (years pooled) | July 4 (years pooled) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 77.1%usual 79.8% | −2.7about the sameyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 1.01%usual 1.25% | Sunday before (years pooled) | Memorial Day (years pooled) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 88.7%usual 82.7% | +6.0betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.93%usual 1.63% | 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.