Flight number record

YX 3461

Republic Airways · Pittsburgh to Chicago

Route: PIT → ORD
Departs: 08:45
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, YX 3461's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 115 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.

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 136 of 361 flights, with 08:51 (69 flights) and 08:56 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:45136 flights37.7%
Departs 08:5169 flights19.1%
Departs 08:5637 flights10.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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 84.1%, and YX 3461 runs 5 points better at 89.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

YX 3461 next to PIT to ORD

Every carrier on PIT to ORD combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 3,950 flights, so YX 3461 is 11 points ahead of it. Republic flew 1,629 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.2% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

YX 3461 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 3461thin sample	361	89.1%	69 min	0.83%	A+
All Republic Airways on PIT–ORD	1,629	84.2%	74 min	1.66%	B
All carriers on PIT–ORD	3,950	78.6%	94 min	2.00%	B
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 3461 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter YX 3461 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.0% in Apr–Jun 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 202591 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights87.6%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights86.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 3461 ranged from 84.6% on Friday to 94.1% on Saturday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why YX 3461 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 56% of the 2,670 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

National Airspace System
56%
Carrier
25%
Extreme weather
15%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%

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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,670 delay minutes reported on YX 3461.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, below the national 1.81% 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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: 89.1% on time and 0.83% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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