Flight number record

YX 5608

Republic Airways · Washington to Omaha

Route: DCA → OMA
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 303
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 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 about an hour. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, YX 5608's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.98%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 5608 flies

YX 5608 flies DCA to OMA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 127 of 303 flights, with 08:05 (105 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:00127 flights41.9%
Departs 08:05105 flights34.7%

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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and YX 5608 runs level with that at 85.9%. 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 5608 next to DCA to OMA

Every carrier on DCA to OMA combined arrived on time 71.9% of the time across 645 flights, so YX 5608 is 14 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

YX 5608 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 5608thin sample	303	85.9%	68 min	1.98%	A
All Republic Airways on DCA–OMAthin sample	303	85.9%	68 min	1.98%	A
All carriers on DCA–OMA	645	71.9%	76 min	1.71%	C
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 5608 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter YX 5608 held fairly steady: 87.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202578 flights87.2%
Oct–Dec 202572 flights88.7%
Jan–Mar 202675 flights84.3%
Apr–Jun 202678 flights83.3%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 5608 did best on Sunday at 96.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 77.6%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why YX 5608 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 2,842 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.

Carrier
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 1,760 of the 2,842 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,842 delay minutes reported on YX 5608.

Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.4% 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 about 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. 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.

YX 5608 is not only a DCA to OMA flight. It also flew OMA to DCA (303 flights, 83.4% 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. 303 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.

Other routes flown as YX 5608
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OMA to DCAthin sample	303	83.4%	67 min	1.65%	B

What to do with this

Booking YX 5608

For a booking, read YX 5608 as 85.9% on time with 1.98% cancelled over 303 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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