Carrier route record
OHDFW→ECP
PSA Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Panama City
- Flights
- 449
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 35%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 449 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
73.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 429 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.45%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.4%
Every carrier on DFW to ECP, 1,276 flights
These figures cover 449 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on DFW to ECP
PSA flew 449 of the 1,276 flights on DFW to ECP, about 35% of it. Its 73.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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 | 687 | 79.5% | 47 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 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 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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am190 flights84.6%
- 11am–2pm129 flights70.7%
- 2pm–5pm85 flights54.2%
- 5pm–8pm38 flights80.0%
- 8pm–5am7 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 84.6% of the time, against 54.2% for the afternoon window. That is 30 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 190 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on DFW to ECP through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202593 flights78.9%
- Jan–Mar 2026143 flights77.8%
- Apr–Jun 2026102 flights69.1%
- Jul–Sep 202681 flights65.0%
Scale runs 55% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.9% on time across 449 flights.
PSA on DFW to ECP did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 65.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 90 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.0% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 69.6%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on DFW to ECP runs when it is late
PSA on DFW to ECP often beats the schedule: 120 of 429 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 112 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 50 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights28.0%
- Within 15 min197 flights45.9%
- 15–29 min late27 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late35 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late30 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late20 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 429 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 107 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 26 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 PSA on DFW to ECP
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 July 2026, 5 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 July 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 June 2026 | 4 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 April 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 8,374 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 19%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,374 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 8,374 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 84.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.45%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
11.7% 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 70.7% on time across 450 flights, 3 points below 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 449 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 4.45% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ECP, every carrier
- PSA on ECP to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to ECP79.5%
- American Airlines on DFW to ECP51.1%
- PSA 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.