delta china flight from dtw Michigan

Delta airlines will expand its international schedule with new flight to china

delta will start New five times weekly service Detroit to Beijing from July 1, 2011 using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. Detroit is the largest city in the state of Michigan This new route, coupled with Delta's existing service from DTW to Shanghai and Hong Kong, would further strengthen the ties between Michigan and China, creating jobs and economic opportunities on both sides of the Pacific.

Delta today also submitted an application with the Department of Transportation to begin new nonstop service between its hub at Tokyo-Narita and Guangzhou, China, which would create convenient connecting service for customers traveling between the U.S. and China's third-largest city, which is a major commercial and manufacturing center. If approved, the service would reconnect two key SkyTeam hubs – Delta's at Tokyo-Narita and China Southern's at Guangzhou – after this route was suspended in 2009 amid the global economic downturn.

Delta is the largest carrier at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, offering customers more than 500 peak-day departures to more than 140 nonstop destinations. With nonstop service to Hong Kong; Shanghai, China; Seoul-Incheon, South Korea; Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; DTW has emerged as a major gateway to Asia for Delta.