DTW - Detroit 🇺🇸

[MUB_MIB]

Airport Name and ICAO/IATA Code
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (ICAO: KDTW / IATA: DTW)

Location (City, Country)
Romulus, Michigan, U.S

Airport Type & Size

Type : Public, International

FAA Classification : Large hub primary commercial service

Airspace Class : Class B

Area : 4,850 acres (1,960 hectares)

Runways : 6 runways

Runway	Length (ft / m)	Orientation	Surface
3L/21R	10,000 ft / 3,048 m	North ↔ South	Concrete
3R/21L	12,003 ft / 3,659 m	North ↔ South	Concrete
4L/22R	8,500 ft / 2,591 m	Northeast ↔ Southwest	Concrete
4R/22L	10,000 ft / 3,048 m	Northeast ↔ Southwest	Concrete
9L/27R	8,708 ft / 2,654 m	East ↔ West	Concrete
9R/27L	10,000 ft / 3,048 m	East ↔ West	Concrete

Terminals : 2 passenger terminal

1. McNamara Terminal (Also called: Edward H. McNamara Terminal)

• Airlines:

  • Delta Air Lines (major hub)

  • Air France

  • Aeroméxico

• Handles most international and domestic Delta flights

• Has its own indoor tram system (ExpressTram) — to help passengers travel along its very long concourse

  

• Features many restaurants, shops, and a light tunnel between concourses

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2. Evans Terminal (Also called: North Terminal — renamed after Warren Cleage Evans)

• Airlines:

  • American Airlines

  • United Airlines

  • Southwest

  • Spirit Airlines

  • JetBlue

  • Frontier, Alaska, etc.

• Handles a mix of domestic and international flights (non-Delta)

• Smaller and more compact compared to McNamara, but modern

Passenger volume : 32.9 million (2024)

Operations : 302,894 aircraft operations (2024)

Why should this airport be added to World of Airports?

Delta’s 2nd-largest hub

1. DTW is Delta Air Lines’ 2nd-largest hub, with over 147,000 scheduled flights annually.
2. It serves as a major connecting point between the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
3. Key international destinations include Amsterdam, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, London, and Frankfurt

. Interesting Layout for Gameplay

• 6 active runways in multiple orientations = diverse taxiing paths and flow control

• Two terminals:

1. McNamara Terminal (Delta + SkyTeam)
2. Evans Terminal (American, United, Southwest, etc.)

One terminal has an internal tram system, a unique feature!

Major Airlines & Routes
Passenger

• Delta Air Lines
• Delta Connection
• Spirit
• American Airlines
• American Eagle
• Air Canada Express
• Aeroméxico Connect
• Air France
• Avelo Airlines
• Frontier Airlines
• Icelandair
• JetBlue
• Lufthansa
• Royal Jordanian
• Southwest Airlines
• Sun Country Airlines
• Turkish Airlines
• United Airlines
• United Express
• WestJet

Cargo

• Atlas Air
• FedEx Express
• UPS Airlines

Unique Features or Challenges

• Detroit often has snowy winters, which could affect aircraft turnaround

• Only some gates support wide-bodies (e.g. A350, 777, 747), requiring careful gate planning

Optional: Links, images, maps, or videos
Detroit Metropolitan Airport - Wikipedia

[Hirohitoswaifu]

Just been having a looksie doodles at the airport and the old pre-2001/2 setup for the North Terminal was awesome. The new 2008/9 North Terminal is such a letdown. I love those weird and wacky gates that those airports had, fit all sizes in at random angles like old MSY. Maybe I’m just getting old and the new big glass terminals or straight maximising gates terminals just don’t interest me haha.

2025 North Terminal,

2000 terminal layout,

This is an airport that if ever added, could really do with a past airport idea so players can pick and choose what they want. Like this haha.

[NTIMAirlines]

bruh!!! I wish they had the old layout!!! would be a lot more funner

[Aron_fvg]

DTW flight connection / route

[NTIMAirlines]

Old layout - 84 stands
new layout - 36 stands

[Hirohitoswaifu]

The new terminal and satellite does have 104 stands and 6 remote at the end of the satellite, not including the end quarter of the satellite that seems to be used as an equipment dumping ground. Now when the new Southern terminal was constructed, opening around 2001 with part of the satellite, as you can see below from the satellite image in April 2002, you can see the Northern most 2 concourses (On the image the farthest right) have started to be demolished as Northwest had moved from the North old terminal to the new Southern one.

And by 2003, half of the old terminal was demolished,

And then by 2007, sadly nearly 2/3 is gone and work has begun on the new Northern terminal,

I do think this would be a perfect example of potentially allowing the player to choose either the era they want to play in at the airport, or give players a choice on whether they would want the new terminal, or the old one in the North. Maybe make it cost something like 40 gold if you want to swap from old to new and vice versa once you’ve chosen. Dunno, this might be me living in cloud cuckoo land now haha.