YX5689

YX5689 arrived on time 67.1% of the time, against 77.3% for all BOS → DCA flights, so this departure is 10.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 12.4 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 691 operations, March 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5689 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 92% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

67.1% on time for this specific departure, against 79.5% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX5689 on BOS → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX5689 pushed back an average of 42 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BOS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 649 of 671 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

YX5689 pushes back an average of 13.6 minutes late and arrives a further 2.4 minutes behind that. This departure loses ground between the two gates rather than recovering it, so a late pushback here tends to get worse on the way, not better. It spends 27.0 minutes on the taxiways at BOS, 6.2 minutes longer than a typical BOS departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DCA, YX5689 spends 10.2 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 2.5 minutes longer than a typical DCA arrival (7.6 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 DCA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 28,004 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour YX5689 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DCA (435,126 flights), not just YX5689’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026

YX5689 is scheduled out of BOS at 3:10 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 71.4% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.9 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

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 · March 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5689 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5689 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.

• B62055 BOS→DCA JetBlue on the same route, departs 5:00 PM, on time 63.4%
• B62355 BOS→DCA JetBlue on the same route, departs 7:10 PM, on time 67.9%
• YX5672 BOS→DCA Republic Airways on the same route, departs 11:05 AM, on time 87.2%