Flight number record
YX 3461
Republic Airways · Pittsburgh to Chicago
- Route
- PIT → ORD
- Departs
- 08:45
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 3461, check with Republic Airways. Republic Airways flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.
YX 3461 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 3461's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 102 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When YX 3461 flies
YX 3461 flies PIT to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:45, used on 95 of 361 flights, with 08:51 (69 flights) and 08:36 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 08:4595 flights26.3%
- Departs 08:5169 flights19.1%
- Departs 08:3657 flights15.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 08:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and YX 3461 runs 4 points better at 87.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
YX 3461 next to PIT to ORD
Every carrier on PIT to ORD combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 4,031 flights, so YX 3461 is 10 points ahead of it. Republic flew 1,722 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.0% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 3461thin sample | 361 | 87.5% | 69 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All Republic Airways on PIT–ORD | 1,722 | 83.0% | 72 min | 1.68% | B |
| All carriers on PIT–ORD | 4,031 | 77.1% | 97 min | 2.23% | B |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 3461 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter YX 3461 held fairly steady: 87.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 89.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 82.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights87.6%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.3%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 3461 ranged from 84.3% on Sunday to 90.4% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 3461 runs when it is late
YX 3461 often beats the schedule: 140 of 359 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early140 flights39.0%
- Within 15 min174 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 27 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 19 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 3461
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 6 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 6 hours 14 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 March 2026 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 November 2025 | 3 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 31 August 2026 | 3 hours | National Airspace System |
| 13 September 2025 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why YX 3461 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 60% of the 3,084 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 15% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,084 delay minutes reported on YX 3461.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MSN to EWR (2) and MSN to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under YX 3461 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PIT to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 361 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking YX 3461
For a booking, YX 3461 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.5% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- PIT to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to PIT, the return direction
- United Airlines 2180 on the same route71.7%
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) delay statistics
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Republic Airways on-time record
- Every Republic Airways flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
A flight number here means Republic Airways’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.