Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5608
Washington (DCA) to Omaha (OMA) · scheduled 8:00 AM – 9:55 AM
How YX5608 performs
650 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
YX5608 arrived on time 88.4% of the time, against 78.4% for all DCA → OMA flights, so this departure is 10.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 1.2 points worse.
YX5608’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 8:45 AM earlier on, and around 8:00 AM more recently — a 45-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 650 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5608 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How YX5608 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the DCA → OMA route as a whole, better than 90% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
88.4% on time for this specific departure, against 78.4% for every DCA → OMA flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 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.
Where YX5608 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5608 | 88.4% | 2.00% | -15 min | 3.8% | 650 |
| Republic Airways on DCA → OMA | 89.6% | 1.62% | -15 min | 3.3% | 928 |
| All DCA → OMA flights | 78.4% | 1.51% | -6 min | 7.5% | 1,989 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why YX5608 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 YX5608 on DCA → OMA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies YX5608 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying YX5608 came in 15 or more minutes late on 10% 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 DCA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 566 of 637 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 |
|---|---|
| YX5608 | 10% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
The schedule leaves little slack between the inbound landing and this departure, so a late arrival has almost nowhere to go but into the departure.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 30 to 44 minutes. How often YX5608’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 June 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DCA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches OMA?
YX5608 pushes back an average of 0.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at OMA an average of 7.1 minutes early. The 7.5 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. It spends 21.7 minutes on the taxiways at DCA, 4.5 minutes shorter than a typical DCA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at OMA, YX5608 spends 6.4 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 1.1 minutes longer than a typical OMA arrival (5.3 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 OMA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 41,923 departures from DCA scheduled in the clock hour YX5608 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at OMA (75,011 flights), not just YX5608’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DCA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX5608 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 41,923 departures from DCA are scheduled in the 8 AM–9 AM hour over the period, against 435,076 across the whole day.
YX5608 is scheduled out of DCA at 8:00 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 83.2% of the time against 76.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from DCA 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 · June 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes YX5608 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMA→DCA Omaha to Washington | June 7, 2024 – July 31, 2026 | 650 | 85.7% |
| DTW→EWR Detroit to Newark | June 13, 2026 – July 25, 2026 | 7 | — |
| EWR→DTW Newark to Detroit | June 13, 2026 – July 25, 2026 | 7 | — |
| BOS→MCI Boston to Kansas City | December 25, 2025 – January 1, 2026 | 2 | — |
| LGA→BNA New York to Nashville | September 10, 2023 – November 1, 2025 | 6 | — |
| BOS→ORF Boston to Norfolk | June 14, 2025 – August 9, 2025 | 9 | — |
| DTW→CMH Detroit to Columbus | November 28–30, 2024 | 2 | — |
| CMH→BOS Columbus to Boston | June 8, 2024 – September 7, 2024 | 15 | — |
| BOS→CVG Boston to Cincinnati / Covington | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 26 | — |
| LGA→MSN New York to Madison | April 13, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 23 | — |
| MSN→LGA Madison to New York | April 13, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 23 | — |
| DCA→BNA Washington to Nashville | March 16, 2024 – April 6, 2024 | 4 | — |
| MEM→BOS Memphis to Boston | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| DCA→BOS Washington to Boston | July 1, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 29 | — |
| LGA→DCA New York to Washington | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 35 | — |
| DTW→PIT Detroit to Pittsburgh | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 8 | — |
| BOS→DCA Boston to Washington | July 1, 2023 – October 27, 2023 | 91 | 87.9% |
| BNA→LGA Nashville to New York | September 10, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ATL→HHH Atlanta to Hilton Head Island | July 15–29, 2023 | 3 | — |
| HHH→ATL Hilton Head Island to Atlanta | July 15–29, 2023 | 3 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5608 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.
19 min late
against a median of 15 min early
Percentiles over 650 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 650 records of YX5608 operating DCA → OMA, 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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