Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, also called Detroit Metro Airport, is an airport in Romulus, Michigan, near Detroit, Michigan. It is a major hub for Northwest Airlines and has the IATA Airport Code DTW. The airport has six runways and three terminals. It was the sixteenth busiest passenger airport in the world in 2003; its passenger volume was surpassed by only 6 airports outside the U.S.

On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which used a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 on that day and was bound for Phoenix, Arizona and Santa Ana, California, crashed on take-off from DTW. All but one passenger on the aircraft was killed; the lone survivor was a young girl.

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, which was on a Frankfurt - London - New York-Detroit route exploded, killing all on board and several on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland.

On December 3, 1990, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collided with a Boeing 727 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on one of DTW's runways, which killed 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers aboard flight 1482.

Terminals

Berry Terminal

• Charter Airlines
• USA 3000 Airlines (Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, St. Petersburg)

Edward H. McNamara Terminal

• British Airways (London Heathrow)
• Continental Airlines (Houston Intercontinental, Newark)
• Continental Express (Cleveland, Newark)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Mesaba dba Northwest Airlink (Akron-Canton, Allentown, Alpena, Appleton, Binghamton, Birmingham, Bloomington, Champaign/Urbana, Charleston (WV), Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Des Moines, Elmira/Corning, Erie, Flint, Ft. Wayne, Green Bay, Greensboro, Kalamazoo, Kitchener/Waterford (ON), Knoxville, Lexington, London (ON), Louisville, Marquette, Moline, Montreal (Trudeau), Muskegon, Newark, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Pellston/Mackinack Island, Pittsburgh, Roanoke, Rochester (NY), Saginaw, St. Louis, Sault Sainte Marie, Savannah, South Bend, State College, Toledo, Traverse City, Wausau/Stevens Point)
• Northwest Airlines (Albany, Allentown, Amsterdam, Anchorage, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Beijing, Birmingham, Boston, Buffalo, Cancun, Charlotte, Chicago Midway, Chicago O'Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Cozumel, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Flint, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, Frankfurt, Grand Cayman, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Greenville, Harrisburg, Hartford, Houston Intercontinental, Indianapolis, Jackson Hole, Jacksonville, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Lansing, Las Vegas, Lexington, London Gatwick, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Manchester, Manila, Memphis, Mexico City, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Montego Bay, Montreal (Trudeau), Nagoya, Nashville, Nassau, New Orleans, New York Kennedy, New York La Guardia, Newark, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Orange County (Santa Ana), Orlando, Osaka, Paris De Gaulle, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland (OR), Providence, Puerto Vallarta, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Rochester (NY), Saginaw, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan, Sarasota, Seattle, Syracuse, Taipei, Tampa, Tokyo Narita, Toronto, Washington Dulles, Washington National, West Palm Beach)
• Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink (Akron-Canton, Albany, Appleton, Asheville, Bangor, Binghamton, Birmingham, Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Charleston (SC), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Dayton, Des Moines, Duluth, Elmira/Corning, Erie, Evansville, Fayeteville (AR), Ft. Wayne, Greensboro, Greenville, Harrisburg, Huntsville, Indianapolis, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Knoxville, Lansing, Lexington, Lincoln, Little Rock, Myrtle Beach, Newburgh, Norfolk, Omaha, Ottawa (ON), Portland (ME), Quebec (ON), Richmond, Roanoke, Rochester (MN), Rochester (NY), Shreveport, South Bend, Springfield/Branson, Syracuse, Traverse City, Tulsa, Wausau/Stevens Point, Wichita)
• Royal Jordanian

Smith Terminal

• Air Canada Jazz (Toronto)
• Air Wisconsin dba United Express (Chicago O'Hare, Washington Dulles)
• America West Airlines (Las Vegas, Phoenix)
• American Airlines (Chicago O'Hare, Dallas Ft. Worth, Miami)
• American Eagle (New York La Guardia)
• Atlantic Coast Airlines dba United Express (Washington Dulles)
• Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection (Atlanta)
• Comair dba Delta Connection (Cincinnati, New York Kennedy)
• Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Salt Lake City)
• Independence Air (Washington Dulles)
• Mesa Airlines dba US Airways Express ( Philadelphia)
• PSA Airlines dba US Airways Express (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh)
• Southwest Airlines (Albany, Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore/Washington, Birmingham, Burbank/Glendale, Chicago Midway, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Ft. Lauderdale, Harlingen, Hartford, Houston Hobby, Indianapolis, Jackson, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Little Rock, Long Island Islip, Los Angeles, Louisville, Manchester (NH), Nashville, New Orleans, Norfolk, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Ontario, Orange County (Santa Ana), Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Providence, Raleigh-Durham, Reno, Sacramento, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Jose (CA), Seattle, Tampa, Tucson, Tulsa)
• Spirit Airlines (Atlantic City, Cancun, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Myrtle Beach, New York La Guardia, Orlando, Providence, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Tampa, Washington Reagan, West Palm Beach)
• Trans States Airlines dba US Airways Express (Pittsburgh)
• United Airlines (Chicago O'Hare, Denver, San Francisco)
• US Airways (Charlotte, Philadelphia)

External links

• Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Homepage (http://www.metroairport.com/)
• Michigan Bureau of Aeronautics (http://www.michigan.gov/aero/)