Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5716
Boston (BOS) to New York (LGA) · scheduled 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
How YX5716 performs
649 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
YX5716 arrived on time 68.4% of the time, against 81.1% for all BOS → LGA flights, so this departure is 12.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 12.3 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 649 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5716 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 YX5716 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 92% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
68.4% on time for this specific departure, against 80.7% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 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 YX5716 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5716 | 68.4% | 8.47% | -6 min | 17.7% | 649 |
| Republic Airways on BOS → LGA | 80.7% | 4.58% | -10 min | 8.6% | 16,020 |
| All BOS → LGA flights | 81.1% | 4.01% | -11 min | 8.5% | 22,955 |
YX5716 has cancelled 8.47% of its scheduled departures (55 of 649), against 4.01% for all BOS → LGA flights — this specific departure cancels 4.5 percentage points more often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about YX5716 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why YX5716 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
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 YX5716 on BOS → LGA. 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 YX5716 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX5716 pushed back an average of 55 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 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, 574 of 598 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YX5716 | 34% | 66% | 12% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
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 60 to 89 minutes. How often YX5716’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often YX5716 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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 BOS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LGA?
YX5716 pushes back an average of 23.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at LGA an average of 17.3 minutes late. The 6.3 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 27.6 minutes on the taxiways at BOS, 6.0 minutes longer than a typical BOS departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LGA, YX5716 spends 10.0 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 1.9 minutes longer than a typical LGA arrival (8.2 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 LGA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 24,278 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour YX5716 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LGA (456,481 flights), not just YX5716’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. YX5716 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 24,278 departures from BOS are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 440,893 across the whole day.
YX5716 is scheduled out of BOS at 7:00 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 65.1% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.1 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 · June 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes YX5716 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGA→IND New York to Indianapolis | December 21, 2024 – January 3, 2026 | 26 | — |
| LGA→ORD New York to Chicago | June 14, 2025 – August 9, 2025 | 9 | — |
| ORD→LGA Chicago to New York | June 14, 2025 – July 5, 2025 | 4 | — |
| CLE→JFK Cleveland to New York | May 10, 2025 – June 7, 2025 | 5 | — |
| DCA→BOS Washington to Boston | October 30, 2023 – January 5, 2025 | 26 | — |
| CLT→LGA Charlotte to New York | November 30, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LGA→CLT New York to Charlotte | November 30, 2024 | 1 | — |
| EWR→BOS Newark to Boston | November 9, 2024 | 1 | — |
| RIC→JFK Richmond to New York | October 12–26, 2024 | 3 | — |
| JFK→BOS New York to Boston | September 16, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 96 | 92.6% |
| PIT→BOS Pittsburgh to Boston | March 16, 2024 – April 6, 2024 | 4 | — |
| LGA→PIT New York to Pittsburgh | January 8, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 53 | — |
| SDF→DTW Louisville to Detroit | February 10–24, 2024 | 3 | — |
| BOS→RIC Boston to Richmond | November 6, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 31 | — |
| RIC→BOS Richmond to Boston | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 30 | — |
| SDF→BOS Louisville to Boston | October 29, 2023 | 1 | — |
| BOS→PHL Boston to Philadelphia | October 28, 2023 | 1 | — |
| JFK→ORF New York to Norfolk | September 5–15, 2023 | 11 | — |
| ORF→JFK Norfolk to New York | September 5–15, 2023 | 11 | — |
| BOS→MCI Boston to Kansas City | September 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| LGA→DCA New York to Washington | July 1, 2023 – September 3, 2023 | 63 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5716 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.
88 min late
against a median of 6 min early
YX5716 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 94 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 649 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5744 | Republic Airways | 87.1% | 8 min early | 610 |
| YX5735 | Republic Airways | 86.1% | 10 min early | 644 |
| YX5748 | Republic Airways | 84.1% | 10 min early | 646 |
| YX5730 | Republic Airways | 79.2% | 10 min early | 638 |
| YX5721 | Republic Airways | 72.6% | 10 min early | 728 |
| YX5716 this flight | Republic Airways | 68.4% | 6 min early | 649 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5716 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 649 records of YX5716 operating BOS → LGA, 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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