Flight number record
YX 5608
Republic Airways · Omaha to Washington
- Route
- OMA → DCA
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 304
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 5608, 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 5608 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 5608's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.97%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 304 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 5608 flies
YX 5608 flies OMA to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 152 of 304 flights, with 11:05 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 11:00152 flights50.0%
- Departs 11:0532 flights10.5%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and YX 5608 runs 4 points better at 81.8%. 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 5608 next to OMA to DCA
Every carrier on OMA to DCA combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 645 flights, so YX 5608 is 3 points ahead of it. 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 5608thin sample | 304 | 81.8% | 70 min | 1.97% | B |
| All Republic Airways on OMA–DCAthin sample | 304 | 81.8% | 70 min | 1.97% | B |
| All carriers on OMA–DCA | 645 | 78.7% | 61 min | 1.55% | B |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 5608 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter YX 5608 held fairly steady: 84.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 79.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 85.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 76.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 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 202572 flights84.3%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights79.2%
- Apr–Jun 202678 flights85.9%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights76.9%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 5608 did best on Sunday at 90.0% on time and worst on Friday at 73.5%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 5608 runs when it is late
YX 5608 often beats the schedule: 133 of 297 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early133 flights44.8%
- Within 15 min110 flights37.0%
- 15–29 min late18 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 297 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 5608
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 February 2026, 6 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2026 | 6 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 July 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 April 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 March 2026 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 May 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why YX 5608 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 3,756 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
38% 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 1,419 minutes out of 3,756, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,756 delay minutes reported on YX 5608.
Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.
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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,012 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.
YX 5608 is not only a OMA to DCA flight. It also flew DCA to OMA (304 flights, 85.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCA to OMAthin sample | 304 | 85.5% | 67 min | 2.30% | A |
What to do with this
Booking YX 5608
For a booking, read YX 5608 as 81.8% on time with 1.97% cancelled over 304 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) 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
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.