Flight number record

YX 5838

Republic Airways · Detroit to Columbus

Route: DTW → CMH
Departs: 19:59
Flights: 296
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s YX 5838, 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 5838 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 an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, YX 5838'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.

On time

83.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights

Avg delay

96 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.68%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 296 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When YX 5838 flies

YX 5838 flies DTW to CMH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:59, used on 103 of 296 flights, with 20:14 (60 flights) and 19:55 (56 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:59103 flights34.8%
Departs 20:1460 flights20.3%
Departs 19:5556 flights18.9%

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 19:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and YX 5838 runs 16 points better at 83.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

YX 5838 next to DTW to CMH

Every carrier on DTW to CMH combined arrived on time 82.3% of the time across 1,404 flights, so YX 5838 is about level with it. Republic flew 878 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.6% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.5%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

YX 5838 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
YX 5838thin sample	296	83.7%	96 min	0.68%	B+
All Republic Airways on DTW–CMH	878	86.6%	81 min	0.34%	A+
All carriers on DTW–CMH	1,404	82.3%	102 min	0.78%	B+
Republic Airways, whole network	361,482	78.5%	72 min	4.08%	B−

Across the year

YX 5838 quarter by quarter

YX 5838 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 88.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.0%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 74 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 202570 flights88.4%
Oct–Dec 202567 flights87.9%
Jan–Mar 202670 flights70.0%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights87.6%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, YX 5838 did best on Friday at 91.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why YX 5838 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 4,597 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
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
40%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
1%

40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,597 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,597 delay minutes reported on YX 5838.

Cancellations are rare at 0.68%, 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

8.2% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including DCA to LGA (16) and GRR to LGA (4), but none flew often enough under YX 5838 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DTW to CMH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 296 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 5838

For a booking, read YX 5838 as 83.7% on time with 0.68% cancelled over 296 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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