Carrier route record
AADFW→ECP
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Panama City
- Flights
- 140
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 51.1% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 26 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 140 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 687 at 79.5% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to ECP runs 26 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 262 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
51.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 135 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.14%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.4%
Every carrier on DFW to ECP, 1,276 flights
These figures cover 140 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on DFW to ECP
American flew 140 of the 1,276 flights on DFW to ECP, about 11% of it. Its 51.1% on time is 23 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.5% to American at 51.1%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 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 | 687 | 79.5% | 47 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 449 | 73.9% | 75 min | 4.45% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 140 | 51.1% | 80 min | 2.14% | F |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.5% 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.
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am5 flights—
- 11am–2pm85 flights54.9%
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm32 flights29.0%
- 8pm–5am17 flights—
Scale runs 20% to 60%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 29.0% on time, against 54.9% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 85 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to ECP through the year
- Jan–Mar 20261 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202658 flights58.2%
- Jul–Sep 202681 flights45.6%
Scale runs 35% 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 51.1% on time across 140 flights.
Split by quarter, American on DFW to ECP logged 1 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 58 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 81 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 51.1% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to ECP runs when it is late
The 66 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early13 flights9.6%
- Within 15 min56 flights41.5%
- 15–29 min late22 flights16.3%
- 30–59 min late20 flights14.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights8.9%
- 2+ hours late12 flights8.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 135 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 69 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to ECP
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 10 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 10 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 June 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 July 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 July 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 5,244 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,244 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 5,244 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,786 of the 5,244 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.14% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.43%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
17.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.4% on time across 140 flights, 21 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 21 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 140 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: treat all of this as provisional. 140 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 51.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 135 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 ECP79.5%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to ECP73.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.