Flights from Detroit to St. Louis

• Northwest Airlines operated flights from DTW to STL using 4 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The newest aircraft servicing DTW to STL in 2009 was Compass Airlines' ERJ-175 from Embraer. The ERJ-175 started flying in 2004.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Detroit, MI to St. Louis, MO in 2009 was Air Greenland's B737-4 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• Northwest Airlines carried a total of 90,553 passengers from DTW to STL in 2009.
• Flight #3669, operated by Northwest Airlink, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 48 minutes average delay between flights from Detroit to St. Louis.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Detroit to St. Louis in 2009 was 72.86%.
• The shortest flight between DTW and STL takes about 72 minutes.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink, Compass Airlines, American Airlines, Comair, Air Greenland, USA 3000 offer flights from Detroit, MI to St. Louis, MO.
• The average flight time from Detroit, MI to St. Louis, MO takes about 73 minutes.
• Comair offers the shortest flight times from Detroit to St. Louis.
• Northwest Airlines, Northwest Airlink, Comair operate the shortest flights from Detroit to St. Louis.
• 142,835 seats were available on flights from DTW to STL in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 109,398 passengers flew on all flights from DTW to STL that year.
• The shortest flight distance between Detroit and St. Louis is 440 miles.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Detroit and St. Louis from American Airlines is the B757-2 built by Boeing with 188 seats.
• In 2009, there were 7 airline companies operating between Detroit and St. Louis.
• There were 109,398 passengers that flew from Detroit to St. Louis in 2009.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from DTW to STL for Comair is the CRJ-2/4 built by Canadair with 50 seats.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)