Route reliability record
ECP→DFW
Panama City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,277
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 685 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,277 ECP to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 687 at 83.5% on time.
Best time to fly ECP to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 93.0% of the time and Tuesday flights 83.3%, against 77.9% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,233 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.05%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
83.5% on time across 687 flights
These figures cover 1,277 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% 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 DFW
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.5% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 70.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 450 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 687 | 83.5% | 65 min | 1.89% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 140 | 72.4% | 128 min | 2.86% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 450 | 70.7% | 84 min | 4.89% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.9% 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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Panama City to Dallas-Fort Worth
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. 1 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ECP → DFWPanama City to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 81.9% | 83.5% | 1.89% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. VPS → DFWValparaiso to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 68.7% | 70.6% | 2.65% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 2501 16:00 |
| 3. ECP → DFWPanama City to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 67.2% | 70.7% | 4.89% | 5am–8am, 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 46 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am352 flights93.0%
- 8am–11am72 flights88.7%
- 11am–2pm327 flights83.5%
- 2pm–5pm356 flights70.0%
- 5pm–8pm170 flights47.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 47.3% on time, against 93.0% for the 5am–8am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 356 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter ECP to DFW 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 DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 93.0% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 47.3%, a wide gap of 45.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am93.0%
- 8–11am88.7%
- 11am–2pm83.5%
- 2–5pm70.0%
- 5–8pm47.3%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 40% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 25 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 65.5% on time, 25 points below January, the best at 90.5%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 173 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.2%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Extreme weather
- 19%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 22,473 reported delay minutes.
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.05%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 actually costs
9.2% 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 74.4% on time across 1,276 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,277 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 DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.05% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,233 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ECP to DFW questions
How often is ECP to DFW delayed?
Roughly one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.1% of the 1,277 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on ECP to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 83.5% on time across 687 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 70.7%, a gap of 13 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on ECP to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 93.0% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 47.3%, 46 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 DFW?
July is the weakest month at 65.5% on time, compared with 90.5% in January. Across the year that is 25 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
- DFW to ECP — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on ECP to DFW83.5%
- American Airlines on ECP to DFW72.4%
- PSA Airlines on ECP to DFW70.7%
- ECP to ATL, a related route85.8%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ECP to CLT, a related route83.2%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.5%
- American Airlines on-time record72.4%
- PSA Airlines on-time record70.7%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. ECP to DFW and DFW 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.