Carrier route record
AADFW→ECP
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Panama City
- Flights
- 106
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DFW to ECP earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 49.0% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 29 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average close to two hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 106 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 744 at 79.4% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on DFW to ECP runs 29 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 286 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
49.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 102 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.77%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.4%
Every carrier on DFW to ECP, 1,303 flights
These figures cover 106 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 23.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on DFW to ECP
American flew 106 of the 1,303 flights on DFW to ECP, about 8% of it. Its 49.0% on time is 26 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.4% to American at 49.0%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 744 | 79.4% | 52 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 453 | 74.8% | 80 min | 5.30% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 106 | 49.0% | 104 min | 3.77% | F− |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Departure window
When American 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 106 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's DFW to ECP record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 49.0% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on DFW to ECP through the year
- Jul–Sep 202547 flights37.0%
- Jan–Mar 20261 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202658 flights58.2%
Scale runs 30% to 65%. 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 49.0% on time across 106 flights.
Split by quarter, American on DFW to ECP logged 47 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 1 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 58 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 49.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 74% of the 5,386 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
- 9%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 5,386 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 5,386 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.77%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 23.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 685 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 54.0% on time across 106 flights, 5 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 106 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 American on DFW to ECP
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.77% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 102 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ECP, every carrier
- American on ECP to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to ECP79.4%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to ECP74.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.