flyerCO

DTW is easiest airport I know to connect at coming in international. 1.5 hours is easily doable. If you happen to get delayed coming in there's the later flight, plus multiple other options through JFK/LGA/ATL/etc.

iAMaCAT

Thanks - I feel better about this flight now and I appreciate your input. I guess its worth it to stay on this flight and if I make it, I'm home 5 hours earlier, but if I'm delayed at least there are other options for that night.

miraclebear2003

We connected in DTW last month coming from ICN (heading to MCO). Plane was 45 minutes late so we had about 90 minutes to make the connection. Biggest problem was waiting for the luggage which seemed to take a relatively long time. Otherwise we got through customs real quickly (without GE), but we did get new boarding passes so we could use precheck. We wound up making the gate with 30 minutes to go so you shouldn't have a problem. The next flight home was in about 3 hours so we weren't concerned.

iAMaCAT

Cheers for the info!

GSP flyer

DTW is the last really nice legacy hub* experience east of the Mississippi. Everything else is either overstretched and overcrowded (ATL, DCA, CLT, MIA), suffers from severe ATC problems (NYC, ORD, BOS, PHL), or has terrible terminal facilities (IAD). DTW gets everything just right.

*Assuming one doesn't consider CVG a hub any more.

napoleono

Hey guys,

I'm looking to fly from Toronto to Memphis. I'm looking at a flight with a connection in DTW of 1 hour and 3 minutes.

TO-DTW is operated by Expressjet DBA Delta Connection

DTW-Memphis is operated by Endeavor Air DBA Delta Connection.

From what I've read, arriving in the US from TO you are considered a domestic flight. Do you think this time would be enough to connect?

Thanks,
T

flyerCO

Plenty. DTW is fairly easy to move between. Yes you'll arrive just like a domestic flight.

Aliquot

Yes, plenty of time, but don't forget to arrive at YYZ to go through customs and immigration there.

pvn

Just as a point of information, there's a direct YYZ-MEM flight on Air Canada Express, but it's only once per day and it's on a CRJ2.

napoleono

Great to hear! Thanks a lot.

I know about the direct flight, but due to schedule I cannot leave too early from TO.

swizzlest

Originally a top-post, but copying here due to, you know, relevant thread:

Hey FTers!

Long time lurker, exceedingly infrequent poster, but new job will involve some international travel, so you might see me pop up from time to time with newbie questions -- appreciate your indulgence.

I have read the minimum connection times thread for DTW, but also have read some stories about delays with CBP in DTW.

My basic question, for those who have experience, should a 1hr45min gap coming in to DTW be enough to clear and make a domestic connection to OH (RJ if that matters).

I'm assuming so, but I've been off for two weeks and am eager to make it home so I'm finding things to be concerned about. This'll be Friday afternoon as well if that makes a difference.

Thanks, everyone. Appreciate the knowledge here.

This is Delta to Delta, AMS to DTW to CMH, connection to Regional Jet if that matters.

CKDGM

Are you a US citizen/LPR or otherwise eligible to use the APC kiosks? (I suspect yes.)

Do you have Global Entry/NEXUS/SENTRI? I'm guessing not. (DTW doesn't seem to have Mobile Passport yet, so that won't help.)

My guess (not based on experience since I haven't done a DTW I-D in forever) is that it will be fine based on those assumptions. I'd worry about a misconnect if you were trying to get in on a Syrian passport with some sort of oddball visa, but for a returning US citizen that should be more than enough time even without GE/etc or the Mobile Passport app.

swizzlest

I'm a US citizen, no global entry. I plan to get it.

Thanks!

xliioper

As already noted in the other thread, 1h45m is plenty of time. Aside from having GE, the main other consideration is having checked luggage as you must pick it up and recheck it to your on destination on returning flights to the US. If you are delayed and miss your connection, they'll just put you on the next flight to CMH. Even if you are on the last AMS-DTW flight (DL has 4 daily AMS-DTW flights), there's still at least one later DTW-CMH flight. I'm guessing you are on the second to last AMS-DTW flight (DL137) connecting to DL6249 which means there are two later DTW-CMH flights to pick from. And even if those flights happen to be full for some reason, you can always just do a one-way car rental if you really want to get home the same day as it's not that bad of a drive from DTW to CMH (a little over 3 hours).

arkangel

Just FYI, if you're flying on to Canada with checked baggage, it will be tagged all the way thru to your final destination, so no need to wait for it at DTW. At least that's what I've been told. Will see if this is really the case in a couple of weeks when flying PEK-DTW-YYZ.