Flight number record

YX 5649

Republic Airways · Columbus to New York

Route: CMH → JFK
Departs: 11:54
Flights: 262
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 5649, 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 5649 lands a B−, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

80.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.20%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 262 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 5649 flies

YX 5649 flies CMH to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:54, used on 64 of 262 flights, with 12:37 (36 flights) and 11:55 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:5464 flights24.4%
Departs 12:3736 flights13.7%
Departs 11:5531 flights11.8%

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 11:54 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and YX 5649 runs level with that at 80.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

YX 5649 next to CMH to JFK

Every carrier on CMH to JFK combined arrived on time 83.6% of the time across 1,631 flights, so YX 5649 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

YX 5649 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 5649thin sample	262	80.0%	69 min	4.20%	B−
All Republic Airways on CMH–JFK	1,631	83.6%	68 min	3.49%	B−
All carriers on CMH–JFK	1,631	83.6%	68 min	3.49%	B−
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 5649 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter YX 5649 held fairly steady: 83.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 79.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights83.1%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights80.0%
Jan–Mar 202624 flights—
Apr–Jun 202667 flights79.4%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 5649 did best on Saturday at 89.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 65.7%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why YX 5649 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 52% of the 3,432 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.

National Airspace System
52%
Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%
Security
2%

52% 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 1,780 minutes out of 3,432, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,432 delay minutes reported on YX 5649.

Cancellations run at 4.20%, 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

7.2% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including JFK to CMH (95), LGA to IND (45) and BNA to LGA (24), but none flew often enough under YX 5649 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CMH to JFK only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 5649

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on YX 5649: 4.20% of its 262 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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