Holiday travel
Holiday travel at SBA
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, Santa Barbara, CA. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against SBA’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at SBA
At SBA, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−6.9 points) and July 4 furthest above (+4.2 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at SBA and sets it against SBA’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 | 84.8%usual 83.4% | +1.4about the same | 0.62%usual 0.89% | — | — | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 77.7%usual 84.6% | −6.9worseyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse | 3.22%usual 1.25% | — | — | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 83.5%usual 79.3% | +4.2better | 1.83%usual 1.46% | — | — | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 82.0%usual 79.1% | +2.9about the same | 0.48%usual 0.63% | — | — | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 87.6%usual 84.2% | +3.4about the same | 0.56%usual 0.42% | — | — | +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.