Carrier route record
YXBOS→RIC
Republic Airways · Boston to Richmond
- Flights
- 934
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 55%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on BOS to RIC carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 934 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on BOS to RIC from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 898 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.43%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.7%
Every carrier on BOS to RIC, 1,691 flights
These figures cover 934 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on BOS to RIC
Republic flew 934 of the 1,691 flights on BOS to RIC, most of the route. Its 79.3% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 79.3% to JetBlue at 73.4%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page) | 934 | 79.3% | 62 min | 3.43% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways | 757 | 73.4% | 65 min | 3.96% | C− |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on BOS to RIC
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Departure window
When Republic runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am322 flights90.4%
- 11am–2pm32 flights68.8%
- 2pm–5pm314 flights76.7%
- 5pm–8pm22 flights—
- 8pm–5am244 flights69.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 68.8% on time against 90.4% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 322 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on BOS to RIC through the year
April is the best month on the calendar at 89.9% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 83.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.4%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on BOS to RIC runs when it is late
Republic on BOS to RIC often beats the schedule: 369 of 898 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 186 late arrivals split 53 under half an hour, 58 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 75 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early369 flights41.1%
- Within 15 min343 flights38.2%
- 15–29 min late53 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late58 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late52 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late23 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 898 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
47 of 211 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 22 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on BOS to RIC
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 4 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 4 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 December 2025 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 3 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 3 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. The split is drawn from 11,466 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,756 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.43%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 473 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 79.9% on time across 935 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 934 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 Republic on BOS to RIC
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.43% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 898 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.