Route reliability record
ECP→CLT
Panama City to Charlotte
- Flights
- 1,105
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 437 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,105 ECP to CLT flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Best time to fly ECP to CLT: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.9% of the time and Wednesday flights 89.5%, against 83.2% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,083 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.90%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
PSA
83.7% on time across 958 flights
These figures cover 1,105 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on ECP to CLT
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 50 | 96.0% | 101 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 958 | 83.7% | 97 min | 2.09% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 97 | 71.9% | 59 min | 1.03% | C |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Panama City to Charlotte
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 2 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ECP → CLTPanama City to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 82.0% | 83.7% | 2.09% | 8am–11am, Wed (route) | — |
| 2. VPS → CLTValparaiso to Charlotte | American Airlines | 80.2% | 81.1% | 1.09% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 2909 16:40 |
| 3. VPS → CLTValparaiso to Charlotte | PSA Airlines | 68.4% | 72.8% | 6.05% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am250 flights89.7%
- 8am–11am160 flights89.9%
- 11am–2pm256 flights85.7%
- 2pm–5pm254 flights79.0%
- 5pm–8pm185 flights70.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 89.9% of the time, against 70.9% for the evening window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 256 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter ECP to CLT by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On ECP to CLT, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 89.9% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 70.9%, a wide gap of 19.0 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am89.7%
- 8–11am89.9%
- 11am–2pm85.7%
- 2–5pm79.0%
- 5–8pm70.9%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 70.0% on time, 24 points below October, the best at 94.4%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. June was the busiest month here, with 120 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.5%, a spread of 17 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 16,685 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 89.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.90% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.09%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
8.2% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 437 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.0% on time across 1,106 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,105 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in CLT after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 94.4% on time and July 70.0%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,083 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ECP to CLT questions
How often is ECP to CLT delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.8% of the 1,105 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is ECP to CLT compared with the rest of the country?
83.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 6 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on ECP to CLT?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 89.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 70.9%, 19 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on ECP to CLT?
July is the weakest month at 70.0% on time, compared with 94.4% in October. Across the year that is 24 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to ECP — the return legseparate record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- ECP to ATL, a related route85.8%
- MCO to CLT, a related route78.6%
- ECP to DFW, a related route77.9%
- American Airlines on-time record96.0%
- PSA Airlines on-time record83.7%
- Envoy Air on-time record71.9%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. ECP to CLT and CLT to ECP are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.