Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5653
Boston (BOS) to Columbus (CMH) · scheduled 2:40 PM – 4:56 PM
How YX5653 performs
718 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
YX5653 arrived on time 84.4% of the time, against 83.3% for all BOS → CMH flights, so this departure is 1.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 718 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5653 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where YX5653 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5653 | 84.4% | 0.97% | -11 min | 6.2% | 718 |
| Republic Airways on BOS → CMH | 84.2% | 1.89% | -12 min | 6.8% | 4,871 |
| All BOS → CMH flights | 83.3% | 1.82% | -11 min | 7.1% | 5,772 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why YX5653 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX5653 on BOS → CMH. 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 YX5653 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying YX5653 came in 15 or more minutes late on 16% 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 BOS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 689 of 711 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 |
|---|---|
| YX5653 | 16% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
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 YX5653’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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 BOS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CMH?
YX5653 pushes back an average of 6.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at CMH an average of 0.3 minutes late. The 6.1 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. Its 20.2 minutes on the taxiways at BOS is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at CMH, YX5653 spends 7.2 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 about what any arrival at CMH 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 CMH. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 21,655 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour YX5653 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at CMH (134,023 flights), not just YX5653’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves BOS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX5653 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 21,655 departures from BOS are scheduled in the 2 PM–3 PM hour over the period, against 440,893 across the whole day.
YX5653 is scheduled out of BOS at 2:40 PM, in the 2 PM–3 PM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 75.6% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour YX5653 leaves in is an ordinary one for BOS and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from BOS 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 YX5653 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMH→BOS Columbus to Boston | January 5, 2025 – July 31, 2026 | 100 | 79.6% |
| JFK→CHS New York to Charleston | December 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 12 | — |
| LGA→SYR New York to Syracuse | December 21, 2024 – January 4, 2025 | 11 | — |
| LGA→CMH New York to Columbus | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| MKE→BOS Milwaukee to Boston | May 11, 2024 – June 1, 2024 | 3 | — |
| BNA→DCA Nashville to Washington | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| JFK→BOS New York to Boston | January 8, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 92 | 82.0% |
| PWM→LGA Portland to New York | January 7, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LGA→BOS New York to Boston | September 5, 2023 – December 22, 2023 | 45 | — |
| BOS→LGA Boston to New York | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 35 | — |
| LGA→ORD New York to Chicago | November 11, 2023 – December 9, 2023 | 5 | — |
| ORD→LGA Chicago to New York | November 11, 2023 – December 9, 2023 | 5 | — |
| DCA→LGA Washington to New York | July 2, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 56 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5653 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.
38 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 718 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5653 this flight | Republic Airways | 84.4% | 11 min early | 718 |
| YX4641 | Republic Airways | 70.5% | 6 min early | 656 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5653 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 718 records of YX5653 operating BOS → CMH, 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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