Carrier route record
MQDFW→ECP
Envoy Air · Dallas-Fort Worth to Panama City
- Flights
- 687
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on DFW to ECP lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That rests on 687 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on DFW to ECP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 672 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.75%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.4%
Every carrier on DFW to ECP, 1,276 flights
These figures cover 687 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on DFW to ECP
Envoy flew 687 of the 1,276 flights on DFW to ECP, most of the route. Its 79.5% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.5% to American at 51.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 687 | 79.5% | 47 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 449 | 73.9% | 75 min | 4.45% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 140 | 51.1% | 80 min | 2.14% | F |
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Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 38 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am71 flights90.0%
- 8am–11am133 flights86.4%
- 11am–2pm142 flights78.4%
- 2pm–5pm86 flights51.8%
- 5pm–8pm184 flights83.7%
- 8pm–5am71 flights80.9%
Scale runs 45% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.0% of the time, against 51.8% for the afternoon window. That is 38 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 184 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on DFW to ECP through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 68.5%. December is the strongest month at 89.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 21 points. August was the busiest month here, with 86 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.5%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on DFW to ECP runs when it is late
Envoy on DFW to ECP often beats the schedule: 191 of 672 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 138 late arrivals split 62 under half an hour, 41 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early191 flights28.4%
- Within 15 min343 flights51.0%
- 15–29 min late62 flights9.2%
- 30–59 min late41 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late6 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 672 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 108 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 51 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ECP.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on DFW to ECP
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 4 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across May, November, October, June and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2026 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 November 2025 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 October 2025 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 September 2025 | 2 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,446 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,384 minutes out of 6,446, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,446 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.44%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 83.5% on time across 687 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 687 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 DFW to ECP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 687 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 79.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 672 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ECP, every carrier
- Envoy on ECP to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to ECP73.9%
- American Airlines on DFW to ECP51.1%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.