YX3479

YX3479 arrived on time 94.3% of the time, against 81.6% for all IND → ORD flights, so this departure is 12.7 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 7.7 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 843 operations, March 2024 – July 2026 · If YX3479 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Every day of the week performs about the same on this flight, steadier than 98% of 1,710 comparable flight numbers.

95.0% on time on the best day (Saturday) against 91.7% on the worst (Tuesday).

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

YX3479 has cancelled 0.59% of its scheduled departures (5 of 843), against 2.08% for all IND → ORD flights — this specific departure cancels 1.5 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 YX3479 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX3479 on IND → ORD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

YX3479 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9 hours on the ground at IND, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX3479 pushed back an average of 1 minute late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes early.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into IND just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 690 of 838 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

YX3479 pushes back an average of 1.2 minutes early and reaches the gate at ORD an average of 11.8 minutes early. The 10.6 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. It spends 17.3 minutes on the taxiways at IND, 1.3 minutes longer than a typical IND departure in the same hour.

On arrival at ORD, YX3479 spends 10.2 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 7.6 minutes shorter than a typical ORD arrival (17.8 min).

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 ORD. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 16,451 departures from IND scheduled in the clock hour YX3479 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ORD (952,666 flights), not just YX3479’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026

YX3479 is scheduled out of IND at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from IND in that hour arrive on time 90.9% of the time against 81.9% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from IND 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 · March 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX3479 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX3479 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.

• YX3707 ORD→IND Return trip, ORD to IND, departs 7:45 PM, on time 79.6%
• YX3567 IND→EWR Republic Airways flight out of IND, IND to EWR, departs 6:00 AM, on time 91.2%
• YX5631 IND→BOS Republic Airways flight out of IND, IND to BOS, departs 6:00 AM, on time 93.7%
• YX3461 PIT→ORD Republic Airways flight into ORD, PIT to ORD, departs 8:50 AM, on time 91.6%