Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Gregorio Luperón International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom) | ||||||||||
| Location | Sosua, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 16 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°45′28″N 70°34′12″W / 19.75778°N 70.57000°WCoordinates: 19°45′28″N 70°34′12″W / 19.75778°N 70.57000°W | ||||||||||
| Website | aerodom.com | ||||||||||
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  MDPP Location of airport in Dominican Republic | |||||||||||
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Gregorio Luperón International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón) (IATA: POP, ICAO: MDPP), also known as Puerto Plata Airport, is located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. It is the Dominican Republic's fourth busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, after Punta Cana, Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros airports. The airport is named after General Gregorio Luperón, a Dominican military and state leader. Capable of handling planes of all sizes, Puerto Plata Airport has benefited from being in an area with many beaches, which are popular among charter airline passengers. The popularity of the city where it is located has also drawn a number of regularly scheduled passenger airlines over the years.
History[]
The facility opened in 1979 with the purpose of boosting tourism in the North region, it has a track 3,081 meters long x 46 meters wide, with the capacity to receive wide-body aircraft, including B-747 and A-340.
Facilities[]
The main terminal building has 10 gates: 5 with boarding bridges on the satellite concourse, and 2 boarding bridges and 3 without in the frontal concourse. The terminal was recently[when?] remodeled with new floors, escalators, immigration hall, departure hall and duty-free areas along with restaurants. The terminal can support 4 Boeing 747-400s simultaneously after renovations to the airport made in 2013/14.[4]
Airlines and destinations[]
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| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Canada Rouge | Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson |
| Air Transat | Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Halifax, Hamilton, London (ON), Ottawa, Québec City |
| American Airlines | Miami Seasonal: Charlotte |
| Condor | Seasonal: Frankfurt1 |
| Edelweiss Air | Seasonal: Zurich[5] |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| InterCaribbean Airways | Providenciales |
| JetBlue | Newark, New York–JFK Seasonal: Boston |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Charter: Katowice[6] Seasonal charter: Poznań,[7] Warsaw–Chopin |
| Nordwind Airlines | Charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo |
| Sunwing Airlines | Seasonal: Bagotville,[8] Halifax,[9] Moncton[10] |
| TUI fly Nordic | Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
| United Airlines | Newark |
| WestJet | Toronto–Pearson |
- Notes
- ^1 Condor's flight from Puerto Plata to Frankfurt flies via Santo Domingo, however, the flight from Frankfurt to Puerto Plata is nonstop.
Statistics[]
| Rank | City | Passengers | Carriers |
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| 1 |  Toronto
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184,993 | Air Canada Rouge, Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines, WestJet |
| 2 |  Miami
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123,177 | American Airlines |
| 3 | Montreal
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121,177 | Air Canada Rouge, Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines |
| 4 | New York City
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109,137 | JetBlue |
| 5 | Newark
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66,247 | United Airlines |
| 6 |  Dusseldorf
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49,994 | Eurowings |
| 7 |  Moscow
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31,388 | Nordwind Airlines |
| 8 | Charlotte
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17,061 | American Airlines |
| 9 | Ottawa
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11,802 | Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines |
| 10 |  Brussels
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11,099 | TUI fly Belgium |
| 11 | Quebec City
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10,042 | Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines |
| 12 | Halifax
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10,365 | Air Transat |
| 13 | Boston
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8,048 | JetBlue |
| 14 |  Warsaw
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7,641 | LOT Polish Airlines |
| 15 |  Helsinki
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7,247 | Finnair |
| 16 | Winnipeg
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5,313 | Sunwing Airlines |
| 17 |  Stockholm
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4,948 | TUI fly Nordic |
| 18 |  Copenhagen
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4,446 | TUI fly Nordic |
| 19 | Frankfurt
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4,359 | Condor |
| 20 | Hamilton
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4,145 | Air Transat |
Cargo[]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Amerijet | Miami, Santiago de los Caballeros |
| DHL Aviation | Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo–Las Américas |
| IBC Airways | Miami |
Incidents[]
- On February 6, 1996, Birgenair Flight 301 was bound for Frankfurt, Germany, but crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata Airport into the Atlantic Ocean 26 kilometres off-shore. All 176 passengers and 13 crew members, among them 164 Germans, were killed. It was discovered later that one of the air speed indicators of the Boeing 757-200 was not working properly, confusing the pilots about whether the aircraft's speed was too fast or too slow.
See also[]
- Transport in Dominican Republic
- List of airports in Dominican Republic
- List of the busiest airports in the Caribbean
References[]
- ^ Departamento Aeroportuario - 2008 passenger statistics[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Airport information for Gregorio Luperón International Airport". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. - ^ Airport information for Gregorio Luperón International Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ "Puerto Plata Gregorio Luperon Airport". www.puerto-plata-airport.com. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
- ^ Aerotelegraph from March 5th, 2020
- ^ "Rainbow Tours: Charters from Katowice lot dreamliner". Pasazer (in Polish). February 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
- ^ Rainbow Travel Agency https://r.pl/. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.sunwingtravelgroup.com/en/news/sunwing-returns-to-saguenay-bagotville-in-quebec-with-convenient-weekly
- ^ https://www.sunwingtravelgroup.com/en/news/sunwing-announces-winter-flight-schedule-from-regional-gateways-across
- ^ https://www.sunwingtravelgroup.com/en/news/sunwing-offers-residents-of-the-greater-toronto-and-hamilton-area-more
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links[]
Media related to Gregorio Luperón International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Buildings and structures in Puerto Plata Province
- Airports in the Dominican Republic
- Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
- Airports established in 1979
- 1979 establishments in the Dominican Republic