Flight number record

YX 5697

Republic Airways · Richmond to Boston

Route: RIC → BOS
Departs: 06:10
Flights: 303
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 11 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 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, YX 5697's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 301 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.66%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When YX 5697 flies

YX 5697 flies RIC to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:10, used on 60 of 303 flights, with 06:00 (52 flights) and 06:05 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:1060 flights19.8%
Departs 06:0052 flights17.2%
Departs 06:0545 flights14.9%

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 06:10 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 level with that at 88.7%. 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 5697 next to RIC to BOS

Every carrier on RIC to BOS combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 1,696 flights, so YX 5697 is 10 points ahead of it. Republic flew 938 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.9% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

YX 5697 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 5697thin sample	303	88.7%	65 min	0.66%	A+
All Republic Airways on RIC–BOS	938	80.9%	71 min	2.88%	B
All carriers on RIC–BOS	1,696	78.4%	78 min	2.89%	B
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 5697 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter YX 5697 held fairly steady: 91.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 90.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights91.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.7%
Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%

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

By weekday, YX 5697 ranged from 85.7% on Monday to 95.5% on Tuesday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why YX 5697 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 80% of the 2,217 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
80%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
3%
Late-arriving aircraft
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, 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 1,777 of the 2,217 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,217 delay minutes reported on YX 5697.

Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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: 88.7% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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