Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

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 February 25, 2002, The McNamara Terminal opened it doors for flight operations, replacing the former Northwest Airlines terminal at the Davey Terminal.

Terminals

Berry Terminal

This terminal was DTW's international terminal. Before the construction of the McNamara Terminal, all international passengers would arrive here and would go through customs and immigration, then passengers would be transported to the Smith and Davey Terminals by bus for their connecting flight. It is now used for charter flights and USA 3000 Airlines flights.

Edward H. McNamara Terminal

The terminal opened on February 25, 2002, it currently houses mainly for Northwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, and KLM. It is a replacement of the Davey Terminal, which was formerly the Northwest Airlines terminal. It is also referred to as The Northwest World Gateway at Detroit. The terminal has 3 concourses, a food court in the middle and a people mover system that gets passengers from one end of the terminal to the other. British Airways, Lufthansa, and Royal Jordanian operated from the terminal a couple of months after the opening.
  • British Airways (London Heathrow)
  • Continental Airlines (Houston Intercontinental, Newark)
  • Continental Express (Cleveland, Newark)
  • KLM (Amsterdam)
  • Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
  • Mesaba Airlines 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/Waterloo (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, Shanghai, 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, Richmond, Roanoke, Rochester (MN), Rochester (NY), Shreveport, South Bend, Springfield/Branson, Syracuse, Traverse City, Tulsa, Wausau/Stevens Point, Wichita)
  • Royal Jordanian

Smith Terminal

The Smith Terminal was built in 1957. This terminal houses other US airlines at DTW. It is the oldest of the other terminals. All airlines in this terminal will move to the new North Terminal, which is expected to be completed by 2008. At that point this terminal will be demolished.

Davey Terminal

The Davey Terminal was built in 1966 and was first known as "Terminal 2" or "North Terminal". It was renamed the "J. M. Davey Terminal" in 1975 honoring former airport manager James M. Davey. It was the principal base of operations for Northwest Airlines before the McNamara Terminal opened. It contained 5 concourses C, D, E, F, and G, which were demolished to make way for the expansion of a new North Terminal. Completion of this terminal is to accomodate other airlines at DTW that is currently operating out of the old Smith Terminal. The expansion project is expected to be completed by 2008.

Disasters

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.

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