Flights Panama City → Houston
ECP → HOU
Route overview
The flight route from Panama City to Houston operates with a Boeing 737-300, averaging 5.1 minutes of delay per flight and maintaining an 84% on-time performance rate based on the total of 85 flights recorded. The destination airport sees over thirteen million passengers annually, indicating high traffic and demand for this route.
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 Panama City (ECP) → Houston (HOU) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 116 flights monitored in recent months, 80% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 7 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 16.8/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Panama City the average ATFM delay is 2.5 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Panama City (ECP) to Houston (HOU) heads west for about 916 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 34m.
Departures from Panama City on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 46% of ECP-HOU flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Panama City the average ATFM delay is 2.5 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 116 tracked ECP-HOU flights, 80% left on time with an average delay of 7 min and a 0.0% 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 ECP-HOU
On the Panama City (ECP) -> Houston (HOU) route, on-time performance is 80% with an average delay of 7 minutes, based on 116 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Panama City-Houston is 0.00% across 116 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.
