Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - Detroit, MI
N 42° 12.733 W 083° 20.867
17T E 306204 N 4676007
The main international airport of Detroit Michigan.
Waymark Code: WMKWP
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2006
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Metro Airport, or simply DTW, is an airport in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit, and is a major hub for Northwest Airlines and its Northwest Airlink partners Mesaba Airlines and Pinnacle Airlines and it is also a hub for Spirit Airlines. Operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority, the airport has six runways, three terminals, and 158 gates. In 2005, DTW served a record 36,389,294 passengers.
The McNamara Terminal, also referred to as The Northwest WorldGateway at Detroit, opened on February 25, 2002. It was the replacement for the older aged Davey Terminal, which principally housed Northwest Airlines.
The terminal is mainly used by Northwest Airlines, but houses several other airlines as well, many of which are affiliated with the Skyteam airline alliance (of which Northwest is a member). It has three concourses, "A", "B", and "C", which house 122 gates with shopping and dining in the center of "A" concourse (known as "the link"), as well as throughout the concourses. The "A" concourse has a people mover, known as the "ExpressTram" that gets passengers from one end of the mile-long (1.6 km) Concourse A to the other, arriving at the three different boarding stations, "Main","North", and "South", in less than 3 minutes.
There is, regrettably, no rail service between the Detroit airport and the surrounding communities including downtown Detroit.
www.metroairport.com