Flights Panama City → St. Louis
ECP → STL
Route overview
The flight route from Panama City to St. Louis has a punctuality rate of 75%, with an average delay of 12.9 minutes per flight. Over the course of a year, this route sees 73 flights connecting to a destination airport that serves approximately 13,665,517 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) → St. Louis (STL) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 73 flights monitored in recent months, 75% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 16/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At St. Louis 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 St. Louis: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Panama City (ECP) to St. Louis (STL) heads north-west for about 1,022 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 42m.
Departures from Panama City on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 45% of ECP-STL flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Panama City the average ATFM delay is 2.5 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into St. Louis it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 73 tracked ECP-STL flights, 75% left on time with an average delay of 13 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-STL
On the Panama City (ECP) -> St. Louis (STL) route, on-time performance is 75% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 73 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Panama City-St. Louis is 0.00% across 73 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.
