Holiday travel
Holiday travel at MSP
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, MN. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against MSP’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at MSP
At MSP, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−11.2 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+7.1 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at MSP and sets it against MSP’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 | 72.5%usual 83.7% | −11.2worseyears: 1 about the same, 2 worse | 0.86%usual 0.65% | Sunday after (two of three) | Thanksgiving Day (two of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 77.0%usual 78.0% | −1.0worseyears: 2 better, 1 worse | 1.90%usual 0.98% | Moved each year | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 79.0%usual 73.7% | +5.3betteryears: 3 better, 1 about the same | 0.69%usual 1.48% | July 1 (two of four) | Moved each year | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 82.8%usual 79.1% | +3.7betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.25%usual 0.56% | Memorial Day (three of three) | Sunday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 91.1%usual 84.0% | +7.1betteryears: 3 better | 0.24%usual 0.43% | 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.