Holiday travel

Holiday travel at SJU

Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, PR. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against SJU’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.

History, not a forecast. This shows what happened in past holiday windows. It cannot say what this year will bring, and each holiday appears only a few times in the data, so one bad storm can decide a whole year. Check your airline for your own flight.

The five holidays at SJU

At SJU, Christmas to New Year’s ran furthest below ordinary days (−5.9 points) and Memorial Day furthest above (+6.1 points).

Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at SJU and sets it against SJU’s own ordinary days of the same weekdays in the weeks around it. Open a holiday for its day-by-day figures.

The five holidays at SJU against its ordinary days
HolidayOn timeGap from usual, pointsCancelledWorst dayBest dayAll airports, gap
Thanksgiving3 times in the data78.0%usual 80.7%−2.7worseyears: 2 about the same, 1 worse0.88%usual 0.48%Saturday after (years pooled)Thanksgiving Day (years pooled)−2.1worse
Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data69.8%usual 75.7%−5.9worseyears: 3 worse1.30%usual 1.83%December 27 (two of three)December 30 (two of three)−3.2worse
July 44 times in the data72.9%usual 73.0%−0.1about the sameyears: 3 about the same, 1 worse1.27%usual 1.85%July 1 (years pooled)July 4 (years pooled)+5.2better
Memorial Day3 times in the data84.7%usual 78.6%+6.1betteryears: 2 better, 1 about the same0.00%usual 0.71%Memorial Day (years pooled)Sunday before (years pooled)−0.3about the same
Labor Day3 times in the data78.7%usual 73.6%+5.1betteryears: 1 better, 2 about the same0.37%usual 0.96%Sunday before (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.