Holiday travel
Holiday travel at SLC
Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, UT. July 2023 – July 2026. Set against SLC’s own ordinary days of the same weekday in the weeks around each holiday.
The five holidays at SLC
At SLC, Thanksgiving ran furthest below ordinary days (−1.1 points) and Labor Day furthest above (+6.2 points).
Each row pools every year of that holiday’s window at SLC and sets it against SLC’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 | 85.6%usual 86.7% | −1.1worseyears: 1 better, 1 about the same, 1 worse | 0.26%usual 0.58% | Moved each year | Thanksgiving Day (two of three) | −2.1worse |
| Christmas to New Year’s3 times in the data | 82.9%usual 83.7% | −0.8about the sameyears: 1 better, 2 worse | 0.54%usual 0.65% | December 26 (two of three) | Moved each year | −3.2worse |
| July 44 times in the data | 84.8%usual 79.3% | +5.5betteryears: 4 better | 0.55%usual 1.04% | July 1 (two of four) | July 4 (two of four) | +5.2better |
| Memorial Day3 times in the data | 87.0%usual 82.3% | +4.7betteryears: 3 better | 0.29%usual 0.38% | Memorial Day (two of three) | Sunday before (two of three) | −0.3about the same |
| Labor Day3 times in the data | 90.9%usual 84.7% | +6.2betteryears: 3 better | 0.39%usual 0.40% | Labor Day (two of three) | Saturday 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.