Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5699
New York (JFK) to Washington (DCA) · scheduled 4:20 PM – 6:00 PM
How YX5699 performs
750 operations, January 2024 – July 2026.
YX5699 arrived on time 64.5% of the time, against 75.6% for all JFK → DCA flights, so this departure is 11.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 13.1 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 750 operations, January 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5699 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 YX5699 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 93% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
64.5% on time for this specific departure, against 77.6% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 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 YX5699 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5699 | 64.5% | 5.20% | -1 min | 15.8% | 750 |
| Republic Airways on JFK → DCA | 77.6% | 4.61% | -11 min | 8.3% | 6,767 |
| All JFK → DCA flights | 75.6% | 4.53% | -10 min | 9.7% | 7,742 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026
Why YX5699 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX5699 on JFK → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies YX5699 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX5699 pushed back an average of 56 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 7 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into JFK just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 688 of 718 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YX5699 | 25% | 73% | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
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 YX5699’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often YX5699 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 January 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves JFK late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DCA?
YX5699 pushes back an average of 21.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 18.3 minutes late. The 2.8 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 37.8 minutes on the taxiways at JFK, 7.8 minutes longer than a typical JFK departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DCA, YX5699 spends 10.3 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 2.7 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 20,836 departures from JFK scheduled in the clock hour YX5699 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 YX5699’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves JFK
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX5699 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 20,836 departures from JFK are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 351,635 across the whole day.
YX5699 is scheduled out of JFK at 4:20 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from JFK in that hour arrive on time 74.7% of the time against 77.0% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour YX5699 leaves in is an ordinary one for JFK and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from JFK 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 · January 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes YX5699 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→JFK Washington to New York | September 9, 2024 – January 4, 2026 | 96 | 89.6% |
| CLT→JFK Charlotte to New York | May 24, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 14 | — |
| LGA→PIT New York to Pittsburgh | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 24 | — |
| DTW→HPN Detroit to White Plains | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 26 | — |
| HPN→DTW White Plains to Detroit | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 26 | — |
| BOS→JFK Boston to New York | December 16, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 23 | — |
| CVG→BOS Cincinnati / Covington to Boston | November 16, 2023 – December 6, 2023 | 15 | — |
| LGA→STL New York to St. Louis | November 1–3, 2023 | 3 | — |
| CLE→JFK Cleveland to New York | September 16, 2023 – October 8, 2023 | 23 | — |
| JFK→CLE New York to Cleveland | September 16, 2023 – October 8, 2023 | 23 | — |
| LGA→BOS New York to Boston | September 6–15, 2023 | 7 | — |
| DCA→LGA Washington to New York | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 63 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5699 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.
83 min late
against a median of 1 min early
YX5699 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min early, but the worst tenth are 84 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 750 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX4538 | Republic Airways | 84.7% | 11 min early | 921 |
| YX4546 | Republic Airways | 74.7% | 12 min early | 960 |
| YX5699 this flight | Republic Airways | 64.5% | 1 min early | 750 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5699 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 YX5699 operating JFK → DCA, 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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