Flight profile · Republic Airways
YX5768
Washington (DCA) to New York (LGA) · scheduled 8:40 PM – 9:59 PM
How YX5768 performs
686 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
YX5768 arrived on time 60.9% of the time, against 74.0% for all DCA → LGA flights, so this departure is 13.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Republic Airways’ own flights on this route it is 13.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 686 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If YX5768 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 YX5768 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 94% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
60.9% on time for this specific departure, against 74.5% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – 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 YX5768 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5768 | 60.9% | 6.85% | 1 min | 18.6% | 686 |
| Republic Airways on DCA → LGA | 74.5% | 4.86% | -6 min | 10.0% | 11,697 |
| All DCA → LGA flights | 74.0% | 4.52% | -6 min | 10.6% | 14,236 |
YX5768 has cancelled 6.85% of its scheduled departures (47 of 686), against 4.52% for all DCA → LGA flights — this specific departure cancels 2.3 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 YX5768 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why YX5768 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 YX5768 on DCA → LGA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies YX5768 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, YX5768 pushed back an average of 71 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DCA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 623 of 641 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YX5768 | 31% | 70% | 12% |
| 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 YX5768’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often YX5768 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 November 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DCA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LGA?
On arrival at LGA, YX5768 spends 8.9 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 about what any arrival at LGA spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
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 22,666 departures from DCA scheduled in the clock hour YX5768 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 YX5768’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DCA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. YX5768 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 22,666 departures from DCA are scheduled in the 8 PM–9 PM hour over the period, against 435,076 across the whole day.
YX5768 is scheduled out of DCA at 8:40 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 69.3% of the time against 76.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.3 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from DCA 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 · November 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes YX5768 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOS→DTW Boston to Detroit | July 4, 2026 | 1 | — |
| MCI→BOS Kansas City to Boston | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 26 | — |
| LGA→PIT New York to Pittsburgh | May 11, 2024 – June 1, 2024 | 4 | — |
| BOS→LGA Boston to New York | September 5, 2023 – May 6, 2024 | 60 | — |
| CMH→LGA Columbus to New York | October 29, 2023 – April 7, 2024 | 64 | — |
| LGA→CMH New York to Columbus | October 30, 2023 – March 8, 2024 | 50 | — |
| LGA→ORF New York to Norfolk | July 16, 2023 – September 1, 2023 | 27 | — |
| CHS→LGA Charleston to New York | July 1–8, 2023 | 7 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route YX5768 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.
96 min late
against a median of 1 min late
YX5768 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min late, but the worst tenth are 95 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 686 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5747 | Republic Airways | 72.8% | 5 min early | 644 |
| YX5768 this flight | Republic Airways | 60.9% | 1 min late | 686 |
| YX5763 | Republic Airways | 58.5% | 5 min late | 751 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. YX5768 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 686 records of YX5768 operating DCA → 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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