Flight number record

YX 3481

Republic Airways · Newark to Columbus

Route: EWR → CMH
Departs: 18:55
Flights: 250
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 3481, 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 3481 lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 250 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

On time

76.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 232 completed flights

Avg delay

138 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.20%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

14.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 250 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When YX 3481 flies

YX 3481 flies EWR to CMH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:55, used on 78 of 250 flights, with 18:30 (63 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:5578 flights31.2%
Departs 18:3063 flights25.2%

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 18:55 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and YX 3481 runs 8 points better at 76.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

YX 3481 next to EWR to CMH

Every carrier on EWR to CMH combined arrived on time 83.6% of the time across 2,045 flights, so YX 3481 is 7 points behind it. Republic flew 2,018 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.7% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

YX 3481 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 3481thin sample	250	76.3%	138 min	7.20%	B−
All Republic Airways on EWR–CMH	2,018	83.7%	87 min	4.56%	B−
All carriers on EWR–CMH	2,045	83.6%	87 min	4.65%	B−
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 3481 quarter by quarter

YX 3481 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 60.9%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 63 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 202554 flights60.9%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights81.9%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights81.2%
Apr–Jun 202641 flights74.4%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 3481 ranged from 71.4% on Saturday to 82.9% on Tuesday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why YX 3481 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 7,605 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
46%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
8%

46% 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 7,605 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 7,605 delay minutes reported on YX 3481.

Cancellations run at 7.20%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The same number turns up on twelve other city pairs in the data, including MKE to EWR (31), EWR to PIT (23) and MYR to EWR (21), but none flew often enough under YX 3481 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EWR to CMH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 250 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 3481

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on YX 3481: 7.20% of its 250 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.3 hours, 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.

Key figures