Airlines serving southeast Michigan are in for a much-appreciated holiday surprise: Detroit Metropolitan Airport likely broke even on operating costs for fiscal year 2009.
That means air carriers using the state's largest airport won't have to pony up millions like they did last year, when the Wayne County Airport Authority ended fiscal year 2008 with a $12.8 million deficit that the airlines had to make up.
"The numbers are still being audited, but it looks like we're going to be really close," said Michael Conway, a spokesman for the airport authority.
Since the creation of the quasi-governmental authority in 2002, the facilities under its care run on a residual basis. The county and state don't fund the airport, nor do they profit from it.
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