Flight number record
YX 5697
Republic Airways · Richmond to Boston
- Route
- RIC → BOS
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 303
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 5697, 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 5697 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 5697's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.99%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 303 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 5697 flies
YX 5697 flies RIC to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 52 of 303 flights, with 06:04 (48 flights) and 06:05 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0052 flights17.2%
- Departs 06:0448 flights15.8%
- Departs 06:0545 flights14.9%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and YX 5697 runs 2 points worse at 87.0%. 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 5697 next to RIC to BOS
Every carrier on RIC to BOS combined arrived on time 77.3% of the time across 1,693 flights, so YX 5697 is 10 points ahead of it. Republic flew 935 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 5697thin sample | 303 | 87.0% | 67 min | 0.99% | A+ |
| All Republic Airways on RIC–BOS | 935 | 79.9% | 71 min | 3.21% | B− |
| All carriers on RIC–BOS | 1,693 | 77.3% | 81 min | 3.66% | B− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 5697 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter YX 5697 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.7%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 5697 ranged from 81.8% on Monday to 90.5% on Tuesday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 5697 runs when it is late
YX 5697 often beats the schedule: 154 of 300 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 39 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early154 flights51.3%
- Within 15 min107 flights35.7%
- 15–29 min late18 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.0%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 300 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 32 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 5697
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 November 2025, 8 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2025 | 8 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 April 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 November 2025 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why YX 5697 runs late
Carrier accounts for 84% of the 2,597 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 84%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,176 of the 2,597 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,597 delay minutes reported on YX 5697.
Cancellations sit at 0.99% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% 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 PWM to DTW (57) and LEX to DTW (4), but none flew often enough under YX 5697 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to RIC to BOS only.
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.
What to do with this
Booking YX 5697
For a booking, YX 5697 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.0% on time and 0.99% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- RIC to BOS, every carrier and departure
- BOS to RIC, the return direction
- JetBlue Airways 1282 on the same route80.0%
- Republic Airways 5665 on the same route61.7%
- Boston Logan International (BOS) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.