YX5749

YX5749 arrived on time 83.1% of the time, against 76.7% for all LGA → DCA flights, so this departure is 6.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 7.0 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 750 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If YX5749 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

YX5749 has cancelled 1.87% of its scheduled departures (14 of 750), against 4.07% for all LGA → DCA flights — this specific departure cancels 2.2 percentage points less 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 YX5749 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for YX5749 on LGA → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

The aircraft flying YX5749 came in 15 or more minutes late on 12% 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 LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 711 of 737 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 June 2024 – July 2026

YX5749 pushes back an average of 4.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 1.7 minutes early. The 6.5 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 27.1 minutes on the taxiways at LGA, 3.5 minutes longer than a typical LGA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DCA, YX5749 spends 6.2 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 1.5 minutes shorter 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 29,166 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour YX5749 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 YX5749’s own. More on taxi time.

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

YX5749 is scheduled out of LGA at 11:30 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 82.0% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from LGA 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.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5749 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5749 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.

• YX5709 LGA→DCA Republic Airways on the same route, departs 2:45 PM, on time 65.2%
• YX5717 LGA→DCA Republic Airways on the same route, departs 5:00 PM, on time 70.4%
• YX5747 DCA→LGA Return trip, DCA to LGA, departs 1:40 PM, on time 72.8%