Holiday travel
Holiday travel at PDX
Portland International Airport, Portland, OR. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against PDX’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at PDX
At PDX, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−3.2 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+5.8 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at PDX and sets it against PDX’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 | 84.3%usual 85.3% | −1.0about the sameyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 0.33%usual 0.59% | Sunday after (two of three) | Wednesday before (two of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 80.1%usual 83.3% | −3.2worseyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 0.54%usual 2.18% | Moved each year | Christmas Day (two of three) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 83.0%usual 78.3% | +4.7betteryears: 2 better, 2 about the same | 0.54%usual 1.07% | July 1 (two of four) | July 4 (three of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 85.5%usual 81.2% | +4.3betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.85%usual 0.56% | Saturday before (two of three) | Sunday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 89.6%usual 83.8% | +5.8betteryears: 3 better | 0.47%usual 0.47% | Moved each year | Moved each year | +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.