Flights from Detroit to Buffalo

• Flight #1684, operated by Northwest Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 18 minutes average delay between flights from Detroit to Buffalo.
• The shortest flight between DTW and BUF takes about 39 minutes.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from DTW to BUF for Comair is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.
• The average flight time from Detroit, MI to Buffalo, NY takes about 40 minutes.
• Northwest Airlines operated flights from DTW to BUF using 6 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Detroit, MI to Buffalo, NY in 2009 was Air Greenland's B737-4 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• Comair offers the shortest flight times from Detroit to Buffalo.
• 151,258 seats were available on flights from DTW to BUF in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 117,193 passengers flew on all flights from DTW to BUF that year.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Detroit and Buffalo from Northwest Airlines is the B757-2 built by Boeing with 182 seats.
• The newest aircraft servicing DTW to BUF in 2009 was Air Greenland's B737-8 from Boeing. The B737-8 started flying in 1998.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Detroit to Buffalo in 2009 was 74.34%.
• In 2009, there were 4 airline companies operating between Detroit and Buffalo.
• Northwest Airlines carried a total of 91,699 passengers from DTW to BUF in 2009.
• There were 117,193 passengers that flew from Detroit to Buffalo in 2009.
• The shortest flight distance between Detroit and Buffalo is 240 miles.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink, Comair, Air Greenland offer flights from Detroit, MI to Buffalo, NY.
• Northwest Airlink, Northwest Airlines, Comair operate the shortest flights from Detroit to Buffalo.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)