Flights from Detroit to Minneapolis

• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Detroit and Minneapolis from Northwest Airlines is the B747-4 built by Boeing with 403 seats.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Detroit to Minneapolis in 2009 was 74.1%.
• The shortest flight between DTW and MSP takes about 80 minutes.
• Northwest Airlines, Compass Airlines, Northwest Airlink, UNITED, Air Canada, Air Greenland offer flights from Detroit, MI to Minneapolis, MN.
• Northwest Airlines operated flights from DTW to MSP using 10 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The newest aircraft servicing DTW to MSP in 2009 was Compass Airlines' ERJ-175 from Embraer. The ERJ-175 started flying in 2004.
• The average flight time from Detroit, MI to Minneapolis, MN takes about 85 minutes.
• 637,692 seats were available on flights from DTW to MSP in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 498,997 passengers flew on all flights from DTW to MSP that year.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from DTW to MSP for Northwest Airlink is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink operate the shortest flights from Detroit to Minneapolis.
• Northwest Airlines carried a total of 495,965 passengers from DTW to MSP in 2009.
• In 2009, there were 6 airline companies operating between Detroit and Minneapolis.
• Flight #7191, operated by Northwest Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 24 minutes average delay between flights from Detroit to Minneapolis.
• The shortest flight distance between Detroit and Minneapolis is 528 miles.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Detroit, MI to Minneapolis, MN in 2009 was Air Canada's A320-1/2 from Airbus Industrie which started flying in 1990.
• There were 498,997 passengers that flew from Detroit to Minneapolis in 2009.
• Northwest Airlink offers the shortest flight times from Detroit to Minneapolis.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)