Flight number record

YX 3485

Republic Airways · Cincinnati to Chicago

Route: CVG → ORD
Departs: 11:15
Flights: 314
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 314 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, YX 3485's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 58 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 313 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.32%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 3485 flies

YX 3485 flies CVG to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:15, used on 72 of 314 flights, with 11:17 (56 flights) and 11:25 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:1572 flights22.9%
Departs 11:1756 flights17.8%
Departs 11:2549 flights15.6%

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 11:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and YX 3485 runs 5 points better at 83.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

YX 3485 next to CVG to ORD

Every carrier on CVG to ORD combined arrived on time 70.2% of the time across 4,630 flights, so YX 3485 is 13 points ahead of it. Republic flew 1,346 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.8% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

YX 3485 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 3485thin sample	314	83.4%	79 min	0.32%	B+
All Republic Airways on CVG–ORD	1,346	77.8%	80 min	3.49%	B−
All carriers on CVG–ORD	4,630	70.2%	86 min	3.43%	C−
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 3485 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter YX 3485 held fairly steady: 85.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 81.2% in Apr–Jun 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 202590 flights85.6%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights81.8%
Jan–Mar 202678 flights84.4%
Apr–Jun 202669 flights81.2%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 3485 did best on Wednesday at 93.5% on time and worst on Friday at 76.1%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why YX 3485 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 50% of the 4,110 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
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
Carrier
16%
Extreme weather
1%

50% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,040 minutes out of 4,110, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,110 delay minutes reported on YX 3485.

Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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

7.3% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including CLT to EWR (19), ORD to GRR (14) and ATL to EWR (7), 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. 314 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 83.4% on time with 0.32% cancelled over 314 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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