Flights from Detroit to Grand Rapids

• Northwest Airlink offers the shortest flight times from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
• Comair, Northwest Airlink, Northwest Airlines operate the shortest flights from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
• There were 189,432 passengers that flew from Detroit to Grand Rapids in 2009.
• In 2009, there were 5 airline companies operating between Detroit and Grand Rapids.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink, Compass Airlines, Comair, ExpressJet Airlines offer flights from Detroit, MI to Grand Rapids, MI.
• The newest aircraft servicing DTW to GRR in 2009 was Compass Airlines' ERJ-175 from Embraer. The ERJ-175 started flying in 2004.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Detroit to Grand Rapids in 2009 was 70.23%.
• The shortest flight distance between Detroit and Grand Rapids is 120 miles.
• 268,031 seats were available on flights from DTW to GRR in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 189,432 passengers flew on all flights from DTW to GRR that year.
• Flight #7245, operated by Northwest Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 51 minutes average delay between flights from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
• Northwest Airlines operated flights from DTW to GRR using 5 types of aircraft in 2009.
• Northwest Airlines carried a total of 158,141 passengers from DTW to GRR in 2009.
• The shortest flight between DTW and GRR takes about 26 minutes.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Detroit and Grand Rapids from Northwest Airlines is the A320-1/2 built by Airbus Industrie with 148 seats.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from DTW to GRR for Comair is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.
• The average flight time from Detroit, MI to Grand Rapids, MI takes about 27 minutes.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Detroit, MI to Grand Rapids, MI in 2009 was Northwest Airlines' DC-9-30 from Mcdonnell Douglas which started flying in 1990.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)