Flights from Detroit to Chicago

• Northwest Airlink offers the shortest flight times from Detroit to Chicago.
• 95,969 seats were available on flights from DTW to MDW in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 61,542 passengers flew on all flights from DTW to MDW that year.
• Compass Airlines, Comair, Northwest Airlink, Northwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, UNITED offer flights from Detroit, MI to Chicago, IL.
• The shortest flight distance between Detroit and Chicago is 229 miles.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from DTW to MDW for Comair is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.
• There were 61,542 passengers that flew from Detroit to Chicago in 2009.
• The average flight time from Detroit, MI to Chicago, IL takes about 48 minutes.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Detroit and Chicago from Continental Airlines is the B737-8 built by Boeing with 160 seats.
• Compass Airlines carried a total of 31,107 passengers from DTW to MDW in 2009.
• Northwest Airlines operated flights from DTW to MDW using 4 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Detroit to Chicago in 2009 was 56.97%.
• The newest aircraft servicing DTW to MDW in 2009 was Compass Airlines' ERJ-175 from Embraer. The ERJ-175 started flying in 2004.
• The shortest flight between DTW and MDW takes about 47 minutes.
• In 2009, there were 6 airline companies operating between Detroit and Chicago.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Detroit, MI to Chicago, IL in 2009 was Comair's RJ-700 from Canadair which started flying in 1990.
• Flight #5091, operated by Comair, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 20 minutes average delay between flights from Detroit to Chicago.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink, Comair operate the shortest flights from Detroit to Chicago.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)