Carrier route record
MQCLT→ECP
Envoy Air · Charlotte to Panama City
- Flights
- 113
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on CLT to ECP earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 113 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's CLT to ECP record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 112 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.88%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
81.5%
Every carrier on CLT to ECP, 1,147 flights
These figures cover 113 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on CLT to ECP
Envoy flew 113 of the 1,147 flights on CLT to ECP, about 10% of it. Its 86.6% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 92.0% to PSA at 80.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 50 | 92.0% | 67 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 113 | 86.6% | 102 min | 0.88% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 984 | 80.4% | 74 min | 1.32% | B |
Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 113 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm39 flights82.1%
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 8pm–5am70 flights88.4%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 88.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 6 points.
Across the year
Envoy on CLT to ECP through the year
- Jul–Sep 202547 flights82.6%
- Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202639 flights82.1%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.6% on time across 113 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on CLT to ECP logged 47 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 27 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 39 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 86.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 74% of the 1,536 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 74%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
74% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,536 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 74 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,536 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 437 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 85.0% on time across 113 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 113 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking Envoy on CLT to ECP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 113 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 86.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 112 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.