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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport , usually called Detroit Metro Airport, Metro Airport locally, or simply DTW, is a major international airport in the United States covering in Romulus, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It is Michigan's busiest airport, and one of the largest air transportation hubs in the country. The airport serves as Delta Air Lines' second-largest hub in terms of daily flights, third-largest in terms of available seats. Delta, along with SkyTeam partner Air France, and codeshare partner Virgin Atlantic, use the McNamara Terminal for its flights, which contains both domestic and international gates and serves as the airline's primary gateway to Asia for the Eastern United States and its third-busiest gateway to Europe. The airport is a major gateway for tourism in metropolitan Detroit and is one of SkyTeam's major Midwestern hubs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to Detroit Metro Airport )〕 It is also a hub for Spirit Airlines, which was founded in Metro Detroit and once operated its largest base at the airport. Operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority, the airport is one of the nation's most-recently expanded and modernized airports, with six major runways, two terminals, 145 in-service gates,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.metroairport.com/about/facts.asp )〕 and an on-site Westin Hotel and conference center. McNamara Terminal's Concourse A is the world's second-longest airport terminal building at . It is just surpassed by the long Kansai International Airport Terminal 1 near Osaka, Japan, which opened in 2008 with a total length of , is actually three separate structures linked together by underground connectors. Detroit Metropolitan Airport has maintenance facilities capable of servicing and repairing aircraft as large as the Boeing 747.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.walbridge.com/projects/detroit-metropolitan-airport-twin-bay-boeing-747-hangar# )〕 The airport is from Willow Run Airport (YIP). Virgin Atlantic Airways is DTW's newest airline. They operate Airbus A330-300's and sometimes Boeing 787-900's. In 2012, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport was the 16th-busiest airport in the United States and the 44th-busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic. In terms of aircraft operations (takeoffs and landings), it remains one of the ten busiest airfields in North America.〔 Metro Airport also serves the Toledo, Ohio, area, approximately south of the airport, and the city of Windsor, Ontario and Southwestern Ontario in nearby Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Travel Tips & Security Information: FAQ-Directions )〕 The airport serves over 160 destinations〔 and was named the best large U.S. airport in customer satisfaction by J.D. Power & Associates in 2010. ==History== Wayne County began to plan an airport in the western townships of the county as early as 1927. The following year the county board of supervisors issued a $2 million bond to fund the purchase of one square mile of land at the corner of Middlebelt and Wick Roads, the northeastern boundary of today's airport. Construction was completed in 1929, and the first landing was on February 22, 1930; Wayne County Airport was formally dedicated on September 4, 1930. That year Thompson Aeronautical Corporation, a forerunner of American Airlines, inaugurated service from the airport. From 1931 until 1945, the airport housed Michigan Air National Guard operations gained by the United States Army Air Forces. It was also named Romulus Field during the war. The original runway (14/32) was later decommissioned, but parts of it remain as Taxiways M-4 and P-4, crossing from southeast of Runway 3R/21L through Runway 9L/27R and ending northwest of Runway 3L/21R. Between 1947 and 1950, county officials expanded the small airport to become Detroit's primary airport. The airport was renamed Detroit-Wayne Major Airport in 1947, and over the next three years expanded in size threefold as three more runways were built. In 1949, runways 3L/21R and 9L/27R were built, and in 1950, runway 4R/22L was added. During this time, most commercial traffic shifted from the cramped Detroit City Airport (now Coleman Young International Airport) northeast of downtown Detroit to the larger Willow Run Airport over west of the city, and west of Wayne County Airport. Pan-Am (1954), and BOAC (1956), were the first passenger airlines at Detroit-Wayne Major. In the April 1957 Official Airline Guide, they were the only passenger airlines: three Pan Am DC-7Cs per week FRA-LHR-SNN-DTW-ORD and back, and one BOAC DC-7C per week LHR-PIK-YUL-DTW-ORD and back (skipping YUL on the return flight). Aerial photographs of DTW from 1949 and 1956 show the airport's expansion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Detroit-area aerial pics )〕 American Airlines shifted to Detroit-Wayne in October 1958, followed by Northwest, Allegheny and Delta in the next few months. In 1958, the Civil Aviation Administration—now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)—announced the inclusion of Detroit-Wayne in the first group of American airports to receive new long-range radar equipment, enabling the airport to become the first inland airport in the United States certified for jet airliners. Also in 1958, the L.C. Smith (South) Terminal was completed and the airport was given its present name.〔 The remaining passenger airlines at Willow Run moved to Metro Airport in 1966, and the North Terminal (later renamed the Davey Terminal) opened that year. Growing international traffic necessitated a third terminal, the Michael Berry International Terminal, that opened in 1974. The last of its original three parallel runways (3R/21L) was completed in 1976. A new parallel crosswind runway (9R/27L) opened in 1993. Republic Airlines began hub operations in 1984, and its merger with Northwest Airlines in 1986 expanded the hub. Transpacific operations began in 1987 with nonstop flights to Tokyo. The last of Metro's six runways (4L/22R) was completed in December 2001 in preparation for the opening of the mile-long, 122-gate, $1.2 billion McNamara Terminal in the airport midfield in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.metroairport.com/about/history.asp )〕 The airport remained a hub airport for Northwest Airlines until it merged with Delta Air Lines. The present Runway 3L/21R has had four identifiers. When opened in 1949, it was Runway 3/21. With the opening of the new west side Runway 3L/21R in 1950, the original 3/21 became 3R/21L. With the opening of the new east side Runway 3R/21L in 1976, it became 3C/21C. With the opening of Runway 4L/22R in December 2001 and the consequent splitting of the field into two sectors (3/21 on the east and 4/22 on the west), Runway 3C/21C became Runway 3L/21R. In 2009, Detroit Metro Airport launched its first social media efforts with participation in Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube networks. In April 2011, Lufthansa launched a unique curbside check-in and baggage check service for premium customers departing from DTW's North Terminal to Frankfurt and beyond. In doing so, Lufthansa became the only airline allowing international customers departing from DTW to check their bags and receive a boarding pass directly at the curb, while DTW becomes Lufthansa's first North American gateway to feature this service. Detroit was a city that fell greatly to the recession, this caused many airlines like British Airways to discontinue service to London-Heathrow and airlines like Aeromexico and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to utilize codeshare flights through Delta Air Lines. Although the city is still experiencing sharp population declines and is still falling, Detroit Airport has grown, more airlines are seeking opportunity to expand or begin service to Detroit. JetBlue Airways began service to Boston, which has been so successful, that the airline began Ft. Lauderdale service on April 30, 2015 and is looking to expand service to Orlando, and New York-JFK. Virgin Atlantic now serves Detroit with daily flights to London-Heathrow. Virgin will operate the flight year round in conjunction with their codeshare partner Delta Air Lines. Royal Jordanian was the first airline to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner into Detroit, with the inaugural flight on December 1, 2014. A bus shuttle service was announced and is scheduled to begin in spring 2016 from Metro Airport to the transportation hub in Downtown Detroit, which will better connect tourists and business travelers from the airport to the downtown area. Currently the airport has no train system or a direct shuttle to the city. The SMART bus company offers a bus service to the city but with multiple connections which can take over an hour to get Downtown, whereas the proposed company would transport passengers in 25 minutes. On June 26, 2015, Spirit Airlines announced a new maintenance facility on the airport. This facility will bring 31.5 million dollars and 82 jobs to the Metro Detroit area. Spirit Airlines had a hangar that closed down, forcing the airline to do maintenance at the gate and contract the workers, but with the new facility (scheduled to open in 2016) it will retain hub activity at Metro Airport, and bring along more and new air service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Detroit Metropolitan Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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