Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX3446
Newark (EWR) to Indianapolis (IND) · scheduled 11:30 AM – 1:59 PM
How YX3446 performs
889 operations, October 2023 – July 2026.
YX3446 arrived on time 88.5% of the time, against 82.9% for all EWR → IND flights, so this departure is 5.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 4.7 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 889 operations, October 2023 – July 2026 · If YX3446 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where YX3446 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX3446 | 88.5% | 1.35% | -15 min | 2.7% | 889 |
| Republic Airways on EWR → IND | 83.8% | 4.11% | -14 min | 6.9% | 5,617 |
| All EWR → IND flights | 82.9% | 4.08% | -13 min | 7.3% | 6,766 |
YX3446 has cancelled 1.35% of its scheduled departures (12 of 889), against 4.08% for all EWR → IND flights — this specific departure cancels 2.7 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about YX3446 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026
Why YX3446 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX3446 on EWR → IND. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies YX3446 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying YX3446 came in 15 or more minutes late on 8% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 795 of 878 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| YX3446 | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often YX3446’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves EWR late, does that still matter by the time it reaches IND?
YX3446 pushes back an average of 0.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at IND an average of 8.0 minutes early. The 8.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 22.3 minutes on the taxiways at EWR is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at IND, YX3446 spends 6.7 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at IND spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached IND. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 20,591 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour YX3446 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at IND (147,137 flights), not just YX3446’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves EWR
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX3446 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 20,591 departures from EWR are scheduled in the 11 AM–12 PM hour over the period, against 387,621 across the whole day.
YX3446 is scheduled out of EWR at 11:30 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 81.6% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does YX3446 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 7.1 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes YX3446 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| IAD→PHL Washington to Philadelphia | January 12, 2026 – February 9, 2026 | 5 | — |
| PIT→EWR Pittsburgh to Newark | October 1–26, 2024 | 26 | — |
| ORD→GRB Chicago to Green Bay | February 3–11, 2024 | 4 | — |
| ORD→GRR Chicago to Grand Rapids | January 23, 2024 | 1 | — |
| ORD→GSP Chicago to Greenville/Greer/Spartanburg | January 9, 2024 | 1 | — |
| EWR→ROC Newark to Rochester | December 21, 2023 – January 8, 2024 | 19 | — |
| DCA→EWR Washington to Newark | December 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ITH→EWR Ithaca to Newark | November 24, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ORF→IAD Norfolk to Washington | October 6–28, 2023 | 9 | — |
| EWR→PIT Newark to Pittsburgh | September 5–28, 2023 | 24 | — |
| EWR→SDF Newark to Louisville | August 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 30 | — |
| BOS→EWR Boston to Newark | July 8, 2023 – September 2, 2023 | 9 | — |
| ORD→AVL Chicago to Asheville | July 1–7, 2023 | 7 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX3446 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
18 min late
against a median of 15 min early
Percentiles over 889 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX3446 this flight | Republic Airways | 88.5% | 15 min early | 889 |
| YX3519 | Republic Airways | 79.2% | 14 min early | 969 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX3446 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 889 records of YX3446 operating EWR → IND, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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