AMS→DTW

Delta Air Lines is the only carrier the DOT report shows on AMS to DTW, with 1,966 flights and an average of 246 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.

The DOT's international report puts 183 flights on the pair in August 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 136 in February 2026, the thinnest. The schedule is close to flat through the year, which usually means business traffic rather than holiday demand underwrites it.

EUROCONTROL's figures for Amsterdam Schiphol as a whole, every airline and every destination: 73.1% of departures and 78.3% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 94.6% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 73.5% for departures, in line with the year. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 2.8 minutes per arriving flight this year, 1.7 over the last week.

Every US route from Amsterdam Schiphol, and its full punctuality record

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 76.7% of its 121,140 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 1.97% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at DTW reaches a flight from AMS just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Every flight that departs Amsterdam Schiphol falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from DTW is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 3,929 miles, 6,322 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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There is no grade to give AMS to DTW without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about three departures a day in each direction, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 73% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 77% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at DTW; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

• Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS): every US route
• Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
• AMS to JFK, New York (JFK)3,000 flights
• AMS to ATL, Atlanta (ATL)2,870 flights
• AMS to BOS, Boston (BOS)2,230 flights
• AMS to MSP, Minneapolis (MSP)2,032 flights
• CDG to DTW, from Paris1,531 flights
• FRA to DTW, from Frankfurt1,267 flights
• LHR to DTW, from London730 flights
• FCO to DTW, from Rome486 flights
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport

Netherlands publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.