Flight number record
YX 4802
Republic Airways · Indianapolis to Washington
- Route
- IND → DCA
- Departs
- 10:00
- Flights
- 250
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 4802, 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 4802 lands a B, 5 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 250 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 4802's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 245 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.20%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 250 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 4802 flies
YX 4802 flies IND to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:00, used on 44 of 250 flights, with 10:30 (42 flights) and 09:57 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 10:0044 flights17.6%
- Departs 10:3042 flights16.8%
- Departs 09:5738 flights15.2%
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 10:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and YX 4802 runs level with that at 82.4%. 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 4802 next to IND to DCA
Every carrier on IND to DCA combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 2,021 flights, so YX 4802 is 8 points ahead of it. Republic flew 1,853 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.3% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 4802thin sample | 250 | 82.4% | 62 min | 1.20% | B |
| All Republic Airways on IND–DCA | 1,853 | 74.3% | 57 min | 3.72% | C− |
| All carriers on IND–DCA | 2,021 | 74.1% | 64 min | 4.35% | C− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 4802 quarter by quarter
YX 4802 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.6%, a swing of 14 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 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights85.2%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights75.6%
- Apr–Jun 202649 flights89.8%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, YX 4802 did best on Tuesday at 94.6% on time and worst on Friday at 67.6%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 4802 runs when it is late
YX 4802 often beats the schedule: 66 of 245 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights26.9%
- Within 15 min136 flights55.5%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.7%
- 30–59 min late17 flights6.9%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late5 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 245 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 40 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 4802
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 September 2025, 3 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2025 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 September 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 January 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 January 2026 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why YX 4802 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,674 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%National Airspace System
- 29%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,674 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 2,674 delay minutes reported on YX 4802.
Cancellations sit at 1.20% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.80%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 500 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.
The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including DCA to MEM (29), DCA to IND (5) and ORD to DTW (4), but none flew often enough under YX 4802 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IND to DCA 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
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For a booking, read YX 4802 as 82.4% on time with 1.20% cancelled over 250 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.