Flight number record
YX 3480
Republic Airways · Columbus to Newark
- Route
- CMH → EWR
- Departs
- 11:38
- Flights
- 299
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 3480, 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 3480 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 299 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 3480's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 109 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 287 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.01%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 299 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 3480 flies
YX 3480 flies CMH to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:38, used on 74 of 299 flights, with 11:35 (55 flights) and 11:22 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 11:3874 flights24.7%
- Departs 11:3555 flights18.4%
- Departs 11:2248 flights16.1%
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 11:38 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and YX 3480 runs 10 points better at 88.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
YX 3480 next to CMH to EWR
Every carrier on CMH to EWR combined arrived on time 82.9% of the time across 2,087 flights, so YX 3480 is 5 points ahead of it. Republic flew 2,059 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.1% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 3480thin sample | 299 | 88.2% | 61 min | 4.01% | A− |
| All Republic Airways on CMH–EWR | 2,059 | 83.1% | 66 min | 4.23% | B− |
| All carriers on CMH–EWR | 2,087 | 82.9% | 67 min | 4.36% | B− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 3480 quarter by quarter
YX 3480 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 93.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 75 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202571 flights80.6%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202682 flights93.9%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights87.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 3480 ranged from 82.2% on Thursday to 93.5% on Friday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 3480 runs when it is late
YX 3480 often beats the schedule: 140 of 287 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early140 flights48.8%
- Within 15 min113 flights39.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.4%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 287 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 3480
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 August 2026, 3 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across August, November, March and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 November 2025 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 November 2025 | 2 hours 4 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 March 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 June 2026 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why YX 3480 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,080 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,080 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. The split is drawn from 2,080 delay minutes reported on YX 3480.
Cancellations run at 4.01%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on eight other city pairs in the data, including EWR to ORF (26), CLE to IAD (19) and EWR to BOS (8), but none flew often enough under YX 3480 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CMH to EWR only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 299 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 3480
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on YX 3480: 4.01% of its 299 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- CMH to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to CMH, the return direction
- Republic Airways 3458 on the same route90.8%
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.