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.