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CLT to ECP flight delays

Charlotte, NC (CLT) Panama City, FL (ECP) · 437 miles

1,147 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

81.49%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.22%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

76 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

15 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Envoy Air arrived on time 6.3 points more often than PSA Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.

The season swings this route hard. In October it ran 25.5 points more punctual than in June — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.

The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 76 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.

The Charlotte to Panama City route sits close to the middle of the record — neither notably punctual nor notably late.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, Envoy Air arrived on time most often on CLT to ECP. PSA Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in October and worst in June.

Every airline on CLT to ECP

Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.

Airline Flights On time Cancelled Avg delay Grade
PSA Airlines 984 80.35% 1.32% 74 min C
Envoy Air 113 86.61% 0.88% 102 min B
American Airlines 50 92% 0% 67 min

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2025 peak 95 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Charlotte to Panama City usually delayed?

81.49% of flights on the CLT to ECP route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Charlotte to Panama City?

Envoy Air, at 86.61% on time across 113 flights. The least punctual on the route was PSA Airlines at 80.35%.

How often are CLT to ECP flights cancelled?

1.22% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 12 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Charlotte to Panama City?

October, when 95.6% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 70.1%.

When CLT to ECP flights are late, how late are they?

About 76 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on CLT to ECP during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.

Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →