Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX4792
New York (LGA) to Wilmington (ILM) · scheduled 7:59 PM – 10:50 PM
How YX4792 performs
844 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
YX4792 arrived on time 73.8% of the time, against 80.5% for all LGA → ILM flights, so this departure is 6.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 6.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 844 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If YX4792 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where YX4792 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX4792 | 73.8% | 9.36% | -9 min | 11.7% | 844 |
| Republic Airways on LGA → ILM | 80.4% | 5.44% | -10 min | 7.1% | 2,939 |
| All LGA → ILM flights | 80.5% | 5.08% | -11 min | 7.2% | 4,115 |
YX4792 has cancelled 9.36% of its scheduled departures (79 of 844), against 5.08% for all LGA → ILM flights — this specific departure cancels 4.3 percentage points more 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 YX4792 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why YX4792 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX4792 on LGA → ILM. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies YX4792 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX4792 pushed back an average of 40 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes early.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 742 of 768 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| YX4792 | 26% | 61% | 7% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
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 45 to 59 minutes. How often YX4792’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often YX4792 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LGA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ILM?
YX4792 pushes back an average of 11.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at ILM an average of 6.6 minutes late. The 4.5 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 26.5 minutes on the taxiways at LGA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at ILM, YX4792 spends 5.8 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 ILM 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 ILM. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 27,638 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour YX4792 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ILM (23,753 flights), not just YX4792’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LGA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX4792 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 27,638 departures from LGA are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 456,467 across the whole day.
YX4792 is scheduled out of LGA at 7:59 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 68.8% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.5 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from LGA 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does YX4792 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 15.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes YX4792 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGA→DCA New York to Washington | January 8, 2024 – February 14, 2024 | 38 | — |
| IND→PHL Indianapolis to Philadelphia | December 21, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 18 | — |
| RIC→PHL Richmond to Philadelphia | November 25, 2023 – December 19, 2023 | 16 | — |
| PHL→RIC Philadelphia to Richmond | December 5–19, 2023 | 15 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX4792 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.
69 min late
against a median of 9 min early
YX4792 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 9 min early, but the worst tenth are 78 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 844 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 844 records of YX4792 operating LGA → ILM, 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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