Flight number record

YX 3480

Republic Airways · Columbus to Newark

Route: CMH → EWR
Departs: 11:38
Flights: 274
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 274 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, YX 3480's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 103 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 274 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 274 flights, with 11:22 (48 flights) and 11:12 (28 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:3874 flights27.0%
Departs 11:2248 flights17.5%
Departs 11:1228 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 11:38 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and YX 3480 runs 9 points better at 87.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

YX 3480 next to CMH to EWR

Every carrier on CMH to EWR combined arrived on time 81.8% of the time across 2,046 flights, so YX 3480 is 6 points ahead of it. Republic flew 2,019 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.9% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

YX 3480 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 3480thin sample	274	87.9%	61 min	3.28%	A−
All Republic Airways on CMH–EWR	2,019	81.9%	63 min	3.91%	B−
All carriers on CMH–EWR	2,046	81.8%	63 min	4.01%	B−
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	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 69 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 202536 flights88.9%
Oct–Dec 202571 flights80.6%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202682 flights93.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 3480 did best on Wednesday at 93.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 80.5%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 1,945 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
31%

36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,945 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,945 delay minutes reported on YX 3480.

Cancellations run at 3.28%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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

6.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 ten other city pairs in the data, including EWR to GSP (43), EWR to ORF (28) and CLE to IAD (19), 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. 274 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: 3.28% of its 274 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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