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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Information about Delta's presence at the airline's Detroit Metropolitan Airport hub
Hub Snapshot
- Airport code: DTW
- Delta currently offers more than 348 peak-day departures to 106 destinations worldwide.
- Delta offers nonstop service to 91 Domestic destinations and 15 international destinations, including Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Munich, Frankfurt, Tokyo-Haneda, Seoul and Shanghai (DL is the only carrier in DTW with nonstop service to Asia).
- Delta’s service in Detroit dates from June 1, 1945 when Chicago and Southern Air Lines (C&S) and Northwest Airlines started flights at Detroit’s City Airport (DET), today’s Coleman A. Young International Airport. C&S merged with Delta in 1953, and Northwest in 2008.
Connecting Detroit to the World
In May 2025, Delta began four-times-weekly service to Dublin. Additionally, Delta also increased its service to Munich to daily flights.
Customer Experience/Facilities
TSA PreCheck Touchless ID (formerly Digital ID)
Delta has invested heavily in technologies to streamline and transform the airport journey. TSA PreCheck® Touchless ID (“Touchless ID”), Delta’s time-saving, industry-first technology that allows customers to check bags and move through security without showing a physical government ID, debuted at DTW in 2021. Touchless ID is available to eligible customers in both the domestic and international terminals.
Overview TSA PreCheck® Touchless ID ("Touchless ID") – formerly known to customers as Delta Digital ID – lets customers check bags and move through security without showing...
PARALLEL REALITY™
DTW is the exclusive hub for customers to experience the mind-bending PARALLEL REALITY technology. First displayed at CES 2020, this technology allows up to 100 customers to each see personalized flight information tailored to their unique trip on a single, shared digital screen — at the same time.
Delta Sky Club
The Motor City is home to five Sky Clubs that provide customers with thoughtful amenities like an assortment of meal offerings, premium beverage selections and intentionally crafted lounge space.
The airport's most recently opened Delta Sky Club, which opened in December 2021, is a 4,600-square-foot space near gate A43 that seats up to 100 guests and overlooks the concourse and the existing main Club.
Advancing Sustainable Travel at DTW
- In 2024, for the first time in Michigan’s aviation history, Delta facilitated the delivery of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), made from Minnesota and North Dakota-grown winter camelina as part of Delta’s work with the Minnesota SAF Hub coalition, to DTW airport for use on Delta flights. (Source)
- 15% of DTW’s core ground support equipment (GSE) has been electrified
- More than 20% of DTW departures are on next-generation fleet (A220, A321 Neo, A339), which are more fuel efficient
- DTW has established end-around taxiways for more efficient taxiing
Economic & Community Impact
Economic impact stats:
- $24.9 million in statewide economic impact from small and diverse business partnerships
- Around 4,800 Delta employees call Michigan home
- Latest profit-sharing payout in state: $113.9 million
University & Technical College partners:
- Lansing Community College
- MIAT College of Technology (Canton)
- Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo)
Sports Partners
- Detroit Lions
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Starting next year, customers across the U.S. will have more options to escape the ordinary with the launch of new Saturday-only nonstop service to some favorite leisure destinations across North America and the Caribbean.
These flights will connect key hubs in Atlanta (ATL), Detroit (DTW) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) to popular summer destinations such as Bangor, Punta Cana, Bozeman and more.
Delta to fly its largest-ever trans-Atlantic summer schedule, with new routes to Catania, Sicily; Naples, Rome, Milan, Barcelona, Dublin, Brussels and more
Delta will add service from Detroit to Tulum and Los Angeles to Mazatlán this winter as Aeromexico launches service from Atlanta and Los Angeles to Manzanillo, Newark to Mexico City and Denver to Monterrey.
After selling out its first path-of-totality flight, Delta is adding a second flight, which will depart from Dallas-Fort Worth and arrive in Detroit together with the other path-of-totality flight.
Fliers can catch the April 8 total solar eclipse in-air from DL 1218, Austin-Detroit.
Customers departing from Detroit Metropolitan Airport can now access PARALLEL REALITY™ technology, a must-be-seen-to-be-believed experience that demonstrates Delta’s spirit of innovation and commitment to customers.
Delta customers in Detroit can use their passport number and TSA PreCheck® or Global Entry membership as a digital ID.
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