Flight number record
YX 4656
Republic Airways · Little Rock to New York
- Route
- LIT → LGA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 4656, 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 4656 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 4656's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 299 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.17%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 312 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 4656 flies
YX 4656 flies LIT to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 52 of 312 flights, with 06:12 (38 flights) and 07:19 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0052 flights16.7%
- Departs 06:1238 flights12.2%
- Departs 07:1932 flights10.3%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and YX 4656 runs 3 points worse at 86.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
YX 4656 next to LIT to LGA
Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 4656thin sample | 312 | 86.0% | 105 min | 4.17% | A− |
| All Republic Airways on LIT–LGAthin sample | 312 | 86.0% | 105 min | 4.17% | A− |
| All carriers on LIT–LGAthin sample | 312 | 86.0% | 105 min | 4.17% | A− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 361,482 | 78.5% | 72 min | 4.08% | B− |
Across the year
YX 4656 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter YX 4656 held fairly steady: 88.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202579 flights88.2%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights82.9%
- Jan–Mar 202677 flights82.6%
- Apr–Jun 202678 flights89.7%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 4656 ranged from 81.2% on Monday to 89.8% on Tuesday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why YX 4656 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 4,390 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.
- 50%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,178 of the 4,390 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,390 delay minutes reported on YX 4656.
Cancellations run at 4.17%, against 1.81% 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
6.7% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,085 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 312 flights under YX 4656 in the data flew LIT to LGA. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 312 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 4656
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on YX 4656: 4.17% of its 312 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.