Carrier route record

OHDFW→ECP

PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Panama City

Flights: 453
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 35%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on DFW to ECP sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 453 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on DFW to ECP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 429 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.30%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

75.4%

Every carrier on DFW to ECP, 1,303 flights

These figures cover 453 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% 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

PSA against every carrier on DFW to ECP

PSA flew 453 of the 1,303 flights on DFW to ECP, about 35% of it. Its 74.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.4% to American at 49.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to ECP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	744	79.4%	52 min	1.75%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)	453	74.8%	80 min	5.30%	C−
American Airlinesthin sample	106	49.0%	104 min	3.77%	F−

Departure window

When PSA 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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am212 flights87.0%
11am–2pm119 flights69.9%
2pm–5pm77 flights49.3%
5pm–8pm38 flights80.0%
8pm–5am7 flights—

Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.0% of the time, against 49.3% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 212 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on DFW to ECP through the year

Jul–Sep 2025115 flights72.7%
Oct–Dec 202593 flights78.9%
Jan–Mar 2026143 flights77.8%
Apr–Jun 2026102 flights69.1%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. 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 74.8% on time across 453 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on DFW to ECP held fairly steady: 72.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 69.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 85.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 66.2%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 8,618 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
Carrier
22%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
14%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,618 reported delay minutes.

47% 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 8,618 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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.

Cancellations run at 5.30%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 11.0% 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 runs 73.7% on time across 454 flights, within about a point 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. 453 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 PSA on DFW to ECP

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.30% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 429 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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