Flights Panama City → Nashville
ECP → BNA
Route overview
The flight route from Panama City to Nashville has an on-time performance rate of 80%, with flights typically experiencing a mean delay of 7.5 minutes. The destination airport, which opened in 1937, handles approximately 18,990,858 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 Panama City (ECP) → Nashville (BNA) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 325 flights monitored in recent months, 82% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 6 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.23%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 25.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Nashville 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 Nashville: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Panama City (ECP) to Nashville (BNA) heads north for about 647 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 14m.
Departures from Panama City on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 43% of ECP-BNA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Panama City the average ATFM delay is 2.5 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Nashville it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 325 tracked ECP-BNA flights, 82% left on time with an average delay of 6 min and a 1.2% 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-BNA
On the Panama City (ECP) -> Nashville (BNA) route, on-time performance is 82% with an average delay of 6 minutes, based on 325 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Panama City-Nashville is 1.23% across 325 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.
