Flight number record
YX 5656
Republic Airways · Columbus to New York
- Route
- CMH → JFK
- Departs
- 07:03
- Flights
- 251
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 5656, 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 5656 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 5656's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 107 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 241 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.59%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 251 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 5656 flies
YX 5656 flies CMH to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:03, used on 56 of 251 flights, with 07:05 (54 flights) and 07:08 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0356 flights22.3%
- Departs 07:0554 flights21.5%
- Departs 07:0837 flights14.7%
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 07:03 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and YX 5656 runs level with that at 88.0%. 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 5656 next to CMH to JFK
Every carrier on CMH to JFK combined arrived on time 83.8% of the time across 1,570 flights, so YX 5656 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 5656thin sample | 251 | 88.0% | 74 min | 3.59% | A− |
| All Republic Airways on CMH–JFK | 1,570 | 83.8% | 73 min | 4.71% | B− |
| All carriers on CMH–JFK | 1,570 | 83.8% | 73 min | 4.71% | B− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 5656 quarter by quarter
YX 5656 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.1%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 84 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.
- Oct–Dec 20259 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights85.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 5656 ranged from 85.3% on Monday to 91.7% on Friday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 5656 runs when it is late
YX 5656 often beats the schedule: 114 of 241 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early114 flights47.3%
- Within 15 min98 flights40.7%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late5 flights2.1%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 241 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 5656
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 August 2026, 4 hours 38 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 June 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why YX 5656 runs late
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 2,158 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,158 delay minutes reported on YX 5656.
Cancellations run at 3.59%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MSN to LGA (110) and BOS to RDU (4), but none flew often enough under YX 5656 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. 251 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 5656
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on YX 5656: 3.59% of its 251 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.
Related
Where to go next
- CMH to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to CMH, the return direction
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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.