Carrier route record
AAECP→DFW
American Airlines · Panama City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 106
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on ECP to DFW earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 54.0% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 24 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average about 3.3 hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 106 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 744 at 82.4% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on ECP to DFW runs 24 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 236 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
54.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 100 completed flights
Avg delay
196 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.77%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.2%
Every carrier on ECP to DFW, 1,304 flights
These figures cover 106 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 27.0% 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
American against every carrier on ECP to DFW
American flew 106 of the 1,304 flights on ECP to DFW, about 8% of it. Its 54.0% on time is 23 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.4% to American at 54.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 82.4% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 454 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 744 | 82.4% | 74 min | 1.88% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 454 | 73.7% | 94 min | 5.51% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 106 | 54.0% | 196 min | 3.77% | F− |
PSA Airlines cancels 5.5% 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.
Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 106 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's ECP to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 54.0% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on ECP to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202547 flights33.3%
- Jan–Mar 20261 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202658 flights70.4%
Scale runs 25% to 75%. 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 54.0% on time across 106 flights.
Split by quarter, American on ECP to DFW logged 47 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 1 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 58 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 54.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 9,031 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Extreme weather
- 17%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 30% 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 4.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,031 reported delay minutes.
49% 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 9,031 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 3.77%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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. 27.0% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 49.0% on time across 106 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 106 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 American on ECP to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.77% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 3.3 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 100 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ECP to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to ECP, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ECP to DFW82.4%
- PSA Airlines on ECP to DFW73.7%
- American 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.