Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5663
Columbus (CMH) to Boston (BOS) · scheduled 7:05 AM – 9:09 AM
How YX5663 performs
750 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
YX5663 arrived on time 93.1% of the time, against 84.3% for all CMH → BOS flights, so this departure is 8.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 6.3 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 750 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5663 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where YX5663 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5663 | 93.1% | 0.67% | -17 min | 2.2% | 750 |
| Republic Airways on CMH → BOS | 86.8% | 1.37% | -12 min | 5.3% | 4,876 |
| All CMH → BOS flights | 84.3% | 1.37% | -11 min | 6.6% | 5,777 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why YX5663 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
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX5663 on CMH → BOS. 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 YX5663 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
YX5663 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.8 hours on the ground at CMH, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX5663 pushed back an average of 2 minutes early; 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 CMH just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 573 of 745 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YX5663 | 22% | 6% | 4% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often YX5663’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often YX5663 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 June 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CMH late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BOS?
YX5663 pushes back an average of 2.4 minutes early and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 11.8 minutes early. The 9.5 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 15.2 minutes on the taxiways at CMH, 1.1 minutes shorter than a typical CMH departure in the same hour.
On arrival at BOS, YX5663 spends 12.7 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 3.8 minutes longer than a typical BOS arrival (9.0 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 BOS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 12,987 departures from CMH scheduled in the clock hour YX5663 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BOS (440,886 flights), not just YX5663’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. YX5663 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 12,987 departures from CMH are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 134,005 across the whole day.
YX5663 is scheduled out of CMH at 7:05 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from CMH in that hour arrive on time 87.1% of the time against 82.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
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 YX5663 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCA→LGA Washington to New York | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 27 | — |
| LGA→CMH New York to Columbus | April 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 23 | — |
| SDF→LGA Louisville to New York | January 8, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 66 | — |
| BOS→RDU Boston to Raleigh–Durham | December 16, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 6 | — |
| CLE→BOS Cleveland to Boston | November 6, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 32 | — |
| LGA→BOS New York to Boston | October 28, 2023 – November 3, 2023 | 7 | — |
| BWI→BOS Baltimore to Boston | October 9–27, 2023 | 15 | — |
| MSN→LGA Madison to New York | September 10, 2023 – October 6, 2023 | 19 | — |
| LGA→MSN New York to Madison | September 17, 2023 – October 6, 2023 | 18 | — |
| JFK→ORF New York to Norfolk | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
| ORF→JFK Norfolk to New York | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5663 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.
7 min late
against a median of 17 min early
Percentiles over 750 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX4642 | Republic Airways | 93.2% | 11 min early | 673 |
| YX5663 this flight | Republic Airways | 93.1% | 17 min early | 750 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5663 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 750 records of YX5663 operating CMH → BOS, 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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