Michigan Airports Have a Feature Not Found in Any Surrounding State – Intrastate Flights

Air travel is generally the quickest and most convenient for travelling, particularly for long distance travel. But what about travelling within the state state. With needing to get to an airport an hour or two before a flight, the possibility of delay and the hurry-up-and-wait enplaning and deplaning process, if your destination is within a few hours drive, would an intrastate flight make sense?

There are 12 different Michigan-only routes that current exist between airports in the state. All of them, except one route, are to and from Detroit.

It generally relates to the hub-and-spoke set up of the American aviation system. Cities like Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Denver serve as regional hubs with spokes out to smaller cities.

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Because neighboring states do not generally have any hub airports, none of Michigan's neighboring states have any intrastate flights. There are none in Indiana, Ohio or Wisconsin. A map of states with and without intrastate flights was made by u/Username_redact and shared to Reddit's Geography subreddit.

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Ohio may be a surprise that there is no connection between Cleveland and Cincinnati. There is no current scheduled service between those two cities - and even if there was, it wouldn't be an intrastate flight as Cincinnati's airport is actually in northern Kentucky.

Here are each of the intra-state Michigan flights.