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Old Sep 15, 2011 | 8:56 pm
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Originally Posted by millsdale
I am surprised DTW still works as well as it does, I suppose good for Asia and EU, but I thought O+D traffic is not all that great. STL is just too close to ORD I agree. It probably could sustain a flight to LHR, butAA just would rather route you through ORD.
DTW's has around 15 million annual O+D pax which is about double (or more) of airports like STL, CVG, CLE, and MEM, and PIT.
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