Carrier route record

OHECP→DFW

PSA Airlines · Panama City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 454
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 35%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on ECP to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 454 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on ECP to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

73.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 426 completed flights

Avg delay

94 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.51%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.2%

Every carrier on ECP to DFW, 1,304 flights

These figures cover 454 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% 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

PSA against every carrier on ECP to DFW

PSA flew 454 of the 1,304 flights on ECP to DFW, about 35% of it. Its 73.7% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.4% to American at 54.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on ECP to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	744	82.4%	74 min	1.88%	B
PSA Airlines (this page)	454	73.7%	94 min	5.51%	C−
American Airlinesthin sample	106	54.0%	196 min	3.77%	F−

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 51 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am45 flights89.5%
8am–11am1 flights—
11am–2pm212 flights86.0%
2pm–5pm119 flights70.2%
5pm–8pm77 flights38.4%
8pm–5am—

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

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 38.4% on time, against 89.5% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 212 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on ECP to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025115 flights75.0%
Oct–Dec 202593 flights77.8%
Jan–Mar 2026144 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 2026102 flights55.3%

Scale runs 45% to 90%. 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 73.7% on time across 454 flights.

PSA on ECP to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 55.3%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 114 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 81.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 60.7%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 11,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
59%
Extreme weather
22%
Carrier
11%
National Airspace System
7%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,576 reported delay minutes.

59% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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 5.51%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.7% 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 runs 74.8% on time across 453 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 454 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 ECP to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.51% 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. 426 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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