Flight number record
YX 4656
Republic Airways · Little Rock to New York
- Route
- LIT → LGA
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 a B−. 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 4656's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 76 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights
Avg delay
109 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.49%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
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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 07:01 (47 flights) and 06:12 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0052 flights16.7%
- Departs 07:0147 flights15.1%
- Departs 06:1238 flights12.2%
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 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 4 points worse at 84.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
YX 4656 next to LIT to LGA
Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 4656thin sample | 312 | 84.9% | 109 min | 4.49% | B− |
| All Republic Airways on LIT–LGAthin sample | 312 | 84.9% | 109 min | 4.49% | B− |
| All carriers on LIT–LGAthin sample | 312 | 84.9% | 109 min | 4.49% | B− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 4656 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter YX 4656 held fairly steady: 82.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 89.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 81.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights82.9%
- Jan–Mar 202677 flights82.6%
- Apr–Jun 202678 flights89.7%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights81.6%
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 86.3% on Wednesday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 5 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 4656 runs when it is late
YX 4656 often beats the schedule: 114 of 298 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early114 flights38.3%
- Within 15 min139 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 298 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 16 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 4656
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 November 2025, 8 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across November, May, March and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 November 2025 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 May 2026 | 6 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 6 hours 4 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 March 2026 | 5 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 September 2025 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why YX 4656 runs late
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 4,888 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,305 of the 4,888 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,888 delay minutes reported on YX 4656.
Cancellations run at 4.49%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last 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.
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: 4.49% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.