Holiday travel
Holiday travel at PIT
Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, PA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against PIT’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at PIT
At PIT, Memorial Day ran furthest below ordinary days (−1.2 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+5.1 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at PIT and sets it against PIT’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 | 83.9%usual 84.5% | −0.6about the sameyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 0.60%usual 0.89% | Sunday after (three of three) | Saturday after (two of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 79.1%usual 78.4% | +0.7about the sameyears: 2 better, 1 worse | 1.04%usual 1.34% | December 29 (years pooled) | Christmas Day (years pooled) | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 80.9%usual 76.0% | +4.9betteryears: 2 better, 2 about the same | 2.67%usual 2.93% | Moved each year | Moved each year | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 79.0%usual 80.2% | −1.2about the sameyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 1.62%usual 0.93% | Saturday before (years pooled) | Sunday before (years pooled) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 89.3%usual 84.2% | +5.1betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same | 0.50%usual 1.59% | Saturday before (years pooled) | Sunday 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.