Flight number record
YX 5708
Republic Airways · Nashville to Washington
- Route
- BNA → DCA
- Departs
- 06:05
- Flights
- 260
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 5708, 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 5708 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 260 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 5708's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 61 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.15%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 260 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 5708 flies
YX 5708 flies BNA to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:05, used on 88 of 260 flights, with 12:10 (34 flights) and 05:50 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0588 flights33.8%
- Departs 12:1034 flights13.1%
- Departs 05:5033 flights12.7%
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 06:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and YX 5708 runs 6 points worse at 83.7%. 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 5708 next to BNA to DCA
Every carrier on BNA to DCA combined arrived on time 73.3% of the time across 4,330 flights, so YX 5708 is 10 points ahead of it. Republic flew 1,861 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.1% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 5708thin sample | 260 | 83.7% | 59 min | 1.15% | B |
| All Republic Airways on BNA–DCA | 1,861 | 75.1% | 62 min | 2.90% | B |
| All carriers on BNA–DCA | 4,330 | 73.3% | 64 min | 3.23% | C− |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 361,482 | 78.5% | 72 min | 4.08% | B− |
Across the year
YX 5708 quarter by quarter
YX 5708 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.3%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 65 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.
- Jul–Sep 202549 flights95.9%
- Oct–Dec 202575 flights81.3%
- Jan–Mar 202662 flights78.3%
- Apr–Jun 202674 flights82.2%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 5708 ranged from 78.9% on Thursday to 90.6% on Saturday. With about 37 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why YX 5708 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,457 reported delay minutes.
- 39%National Airspace System
- 38%Carrier
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, 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 940 of the 2,457 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,457 delay minutes reported on YX 5708.
Cancellations sit at 1.15% against a national 1.81%, 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 3.9% 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 562 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including DCA to BNA (223), but none flew often enough under YX 5708 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BNA to DCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 260 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 5708
For a booking, read YX 5708 as 83.7% on time with 1.15% cancelled over 260 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to BNA, the return direction
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) 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
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.