Flight number record
YX 5838
Republic Airways · Detroit to Columbus
- Route
- DTW → CMH
- Departs
- 19:59
- Flights
- 308
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. 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 rests on 308 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, YX 5838's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.65%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 308 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 308 flights, with 19:54 (82 flights) and 20:14 (60 flights) next.
- Departs 19:59103 flights33.4%
- Departs 19:5482 flights26.6%
- Departs 20:1460 flights19.5%
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 19:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and YX 5838 runs 14 points better at 82.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
YX 5838 next to DTW to CMH
Every carrier on DTW to CMH combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 1,505 flights, so YX 5838 is about level with it. Republic flew 914 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.0% on time. Across its whole network Republic Airways managed 78.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX 5838thin sample | 308 | 82.0% | 91 min | 0.65% | B+ |
| All Republic Airways on DTW–CMH | 914 | 86.0% | 79 min | 0.44% | A+ |
| All carriers on DTW–CMH | 1,505 | 82.1% | 96 min | 0.86% | B+ |
| Republic Airways, whole network | 364,452 | 78.1% | 74 min | 4.55% | B− |
Across the year
YX 5838 quarter by quarter
YX 5838 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 87.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.0%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 77 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 202520 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202567 flights87.9%
- Jan–Mar 202670 flights70.0%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights87.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, YX 5838 ranged from 73.9% on Sunday to 85.1% on Tuesday. With about 44 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late YX 5838 runs when it is late
YX 5838 often beats the schedule: 107 of 306 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When YX 5838 is late it tends to be very late: 28 of its 55 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 11 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early107 flights35.0%
- Within 15 min144 flights47.1%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.9%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 55 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 6 made it up before arrival. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for YX 5838
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 November 2025, 12 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 November 2025 | 12 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 January 2026 | 6 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 May 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 January 2026 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why YX 5838 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 5,023 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 44%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,023 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 25 to one. The split is drawn from 5,023 delay minutes reported on YX 5838.
Cancellations are rare at 0.65%, below the national 1.89% 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
9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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. 308 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 82.0% on time with 0.65% cancelled over 308 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to CMH, every carrier and departure
- CMH to DTW, the return direction
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.