Flight number record
YX 3485
Republic Airways · Cincinnati to Chicago
- Route
- CVG → ORD
- Departs
- 11:17
- Flights
- 294
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 3485, 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 3485 lands a B+, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 294 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 3485's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.68%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 294 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When YX 3485 flies
YX 3485 flies CVG to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:17, used on 91 of 294 flights, with 11:15 (72 flights) and 11:20 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 11:1791 flights31.0%
- Departs 11:1572 flights24.5%
- Departs 11:2046 flights15.6%
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 11:17 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and YX 3485 runs 6 points better at 83.9%. 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 3485 next to CVG to ORD
Every carrier on CVG to ORD combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 4,673 flights, so YX 3485 is 13 points ahead of it. Republic flew 1,240 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.7% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 3485thin sample | 294 | 83.9% | 97 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| All Republic Airways on CVG–ORD | 1,240 | 77.7% | 81 min | 3.39% | B− |
| All carriers on CVG–ORD | 4,673 | 70.8% | 88 min | 3.49% | C− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 3485 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter YX 3485 held fairly steady: 81.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 81.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 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 202577 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202678 flights84.4%
- Apr–Jun 202669 flights81.2%
- Jul–Sep 202641 flights85.0%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 3485 did best on Wednesday at 90.9% on time and worst on Friday at 76.7%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 3485 runs when it is late
YX 3485 often beats the schedule: 92 of 292 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When YX 3485 is late it tends to be very late: 24 of its 47 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 13 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights31.5%
- Within 15 min153 flights52.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.4%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 292 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 3485
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 8 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across July, November, December and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 8 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 November 2025 | 7 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 1 minute | National Airspace System |
| 6 March 2026 | 3 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 November 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why YX 3485 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 4,577 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,577 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. The split is drawn from 4,577 delay minutes reported on YX 3485.
Cancellations are rare at 0.68%, 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
8.2% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on seven other city pairs in the data, including DTW to IAD (21), CLT to EWR (19) and ORD to GRR (14), but none flew often enough under YX 3485 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CVG to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 294 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 3485
For a booking, read YX 3485 as 83.9% on time with 0.68% cancelled over 294 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
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- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
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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.