Flights Nashville → Panama City
BNA → ECP
Route overview
The flight route from Nashville to Panama City has a 75% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 12.1 minutes when flights are not on time. With 258 total flights recorded, the route connects Nashville International Airport, which opened in 1937, to Panama City's Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, serving over 897,679 passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Nashville (BNA) → Panama City (ECP) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 326 flights monitored in recent months, 74% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.61%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Panama City the average ATFM delay is 2.5 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Panama City: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Nashville (BNA) to Panama City (ECP) heads south for about 647 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 14m.
Departures from Nashville on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 37% of BNA-ECP flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Nashville the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Panama City it is 2.5 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 326 tracked BNA-ECP flights, 74% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 0.6% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about BNA-ECP
On the Nashville (BNA) -> Panama City (ECP) route, on-time performance is 74% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 326 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Nashville-Panama City is 0.61% across 326 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
