Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5649
Columbus (CMH) to New York (JFK) · scheduled 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
How YX5649 performs
630 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
YX5649 arrived on time 78.9% of the time, against 85.9% for all CMH → JFK flights, so this departure is 7.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 7.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 630 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5649 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where YX5649 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5649 | 78.9% | 2.70% | -4 min | 7.4% | 630 |
| Republic Airways on CMH → JFK | 85.9% | 2.97% | -11 min | 5.3% | 5,393 |
| All CMH → JFK flights | 85.9% | 2.96% | -11 min | 5.3% | 5,398 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why YX5649 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
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX5649 on CMH → JFK. 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 YX5649 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying YX5649 came in 15 or more minutes late on 9% 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 CMH just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 558 of 613 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 |
|---|---|
| YX5649 | 9% |
| 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 YX5649’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 CMH late, does that still matter by the time it reaches JFK?
YX5649 pushes back an average of 10.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at JFK an average of 7.0 minutes late. The 3.1 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 16.6 minutes on the taxiways at CMH, 1.9 minutes longer than a typical CMH departure in the same hour.
On arrival at JFK, YX5649 spends 13.5 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 2.0 minutes longer than a typical JFK arrival (11.5 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 JFK. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 7,448 departures from CMH scheduled in the clock hour YX5649 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at JFK (351,546 flights), not just YX5649’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves CMH
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX5649 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 7,448 departures from CMH are scheduled in the 12 PM–1 PM hour over the period, against 134,005 across the whole day.
YX5649 is scheduled out of CMH at 12:30 PM, in the 12 PM–1 PM bank. Departures from CMH in that hour arrive on time 81.9% of the time against 82.1% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour YX5649 leaves in is an ordinary one for CMH and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from CMH 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 YX5649 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JFK→CMH New York to Columbus | September 9, 2024 – July 31, 2026 | 209 | 84.0% |
| BNA→LGA Nashville to New York | April 13, 2026 – May 6, 2026 | 24 | — |
| LGA→BNA New York to Nashville | April 13, 2026 – May 6, 2026 | 24 | — |
| LGA→IND New York to Indianapolis | January 5, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 45 | — |
| DTW→CHS Detroit to Charleston | December 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 16 | — |
| CMH→LGA Columbus to New York | March 9, 2025 – April 13, 2025 | 31 | — |
| BOS→MKE Boston to Milwaukee | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| MKE→BOS Milwaukee to Boston | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| LGA→CLT New York to Charlotte | March 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 25 | — |
| BOS→CMH Boston to Columbus | October 14, 2023 – April 8, 2024 | 28 | — |
| ORD→BOS Chicago to Boston | January 8, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 52 | — |
| JFK→BOS New York to Boston | October 29, 2023 – December 23, 2023 | 15 | — |
| LGA→BOS New York to Boston | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 34 | — |
| BOS→IND Boston to Indianapolis | September 5, 2023 – October 27, 2023 | 40 | — |
| BOS→MEM Boston to Memphis | September 9, 2023 – October 7, 2023 | 5 | — |
| CHS→LGA Charleston to New York | July 10, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 41 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5649 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.
37 min late
against a median of 4 min early
Percentiles over 630 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX4808 | Republic Airways | 89.6% | 13 min early | 940 |
| YX5649 this flight | Republic Airways | 78.9% | 4 min early | 630 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5649 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 630 records of YX5649 operating CMH → JFK, 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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