Carrier route record

AAECP→DFW

American Airlines · Panama City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 140
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on ECP to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.1 hours behind schedule. That rests on 140 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 687 at 83.5% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on ECP to DFW runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 49 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 134 completed flights

Avg delay

128 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.86%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

77.9%

Every carrier on ECP to DFW, 1,277 flights

These figures cover 140 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on ECP to DFW

American flew 140 of the 1,277 flights on ECP to DFW, about 11% of it. Its 72.4% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.5% to PSA at 70.7%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on ECP to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	687	83.5%	65 min	1.89%	B
American Airlines (this page)thin 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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Departure window

When American runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am50 flights87.8%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm5 flights—
2pm–5pm85 flights61.2%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.8% of the time, against 61.2% for the afternoon window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 85 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on ECP to DFW through the year

Jan–Mar 20261 flights—
Apr–Jun 202658 flights70.4%
Jul–Sep 202681 flights73.4%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. 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 72.4% on time across 140 flights.

Split by quarter, American on ECP to DFW logged 1 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 58 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 81 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 72.4% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on ECP to DFW runs when it is late

American on ECP to DFW often beats the schedule: 43 of 134 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 37 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.

15+ min early43 flights32.1%
Within 15 min54 flights40.3%
15–29 min late12 flights9.0%
30–59 min late9 flights6.7%
1–2 hours late6 flights4.5%
2+ hours late10 flights7.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 134 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 51 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 18 still arrived on time. 4 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on ECP to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 26 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across July, June and May, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of American on ECP to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 July 2026	26 hours 22 minutes	Carrier
13 June 2026	6 hours 33 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
25 May 2026	4 hours 36 minutes	Extreme weather
24 May 2026	4 hours 23 minutes	Extreme weather
1 July 2026	3 hours 46 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 4,751 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
Carrier
41%
Extreme weather
10%
National Airspace System
6%

42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,751 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 4,751 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,938 of the 4,751 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 2.86%, 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 costs

11.9% 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 51.1% on time across 140 flights, 21 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 21 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 140 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 2.86% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; 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. 134 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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