Gregorio Luperón International Airport
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| Gregorio Luperón International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón |
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IATA: POP – ICAO: MDPP
 POP
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public / Military | ||
| Operator | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom) | ||
| Location | Sosua, Puerto Plata in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 15 ft / 5 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19°45′28″N 70°34′12″W / 19.75778°N 70.57°W | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 08/26 | 3,081 | 10,108 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2011) | |||
| Passengers | 755,877 | ||
| Sources: Departamento Aeroportuario[1] and DAFIF[2][3] | |||
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's the Dominican Republic's fourth busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements. 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.
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[edit] Main terminal
The main terminal building has 10 gates; 5 with boarding bridges on the satellite concourse, and 5 without in the frontal concourse. The terminal can support three Boeing 747-400s simultaneously.
[edit] 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 plane's speed was too fast or too slow.
- On January 22, 2009, Air Turks and Caicos flight 5103 landed in Puerto Plata and punched one of the gears in the middle of the runways; as a result the airport had to be closed for 5 hours and all incoming flights had been diverted to Santiago, Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. No injures were reported.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| AeroGal | Guayaquil, Quito |
| Aeronaves Dominicanas | Samaná, Santiago de los Caballeros |
| Air Berlin | Düsseldorf, Munich |
| Air Canada | Montréal-Trudeau Seasonal: Halifax, Toronto-Pearson |
| Air Century | Constanza, Santo Domingo, Varadero |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Calgary, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver |
| Air Turks and Caicos | Providenciales, San Juan [4] |
| American Airlines | Miami |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| CanJet | Bagotville, Fredericton, Halifax, Montréal-Trudeau, Quebec City, St. John's, Toronto-Pearson, Winnipeg |
| Condor | Frankfurt |
| Edelweiss Air | Zurich |
| Enerjet | Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson |
| EuroAtlantic Airways | Lisbon |
| ExpressJet Airlines | Jacksonville, Orlando-Sanford |
| Jetairfly | Brussels |
| JetBlue Airways | New York-JFK |
| Monarch | London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle |
| PAWA Dominicana | Seasonal: San Juan |
| Primera Air | Dublin |
| Servicios Aéreos Profesionales | Barbados, Beef Island, Holguin, Havana, Nassau Charter: St. Croix |
| Sunwing Airlines | Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Quebec City, Sudbury, Toronto-Pearson |
| TAME | Quito, Guayaquil |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) |
| Thomas Cook Canada operated by Jazz Air | Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Thomson Airways | East Midlands, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) Seasonal: Glasgow-International |
| United Airlines | Newark |
| Vacation Express | Orlando-Sanford |
| WestJet | Toronto-Pearson |
[edit] Cargo carriers
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Amerijet | Miami, Santiago de los Caballeros, Saint Vincent Seasonal: Kingston |
| DHL | Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo |
| IBC Airways | Miami |
| Volga-Dnepr | Seasonal: Madrid |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Departamento Aeroportuario - 2008 passenger statistics
- ^ Airport information for MDPP at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for POP at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- ^ http://www.puertoplatadigital.com/verNoticia.aspx?Id=5120
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gregorio Luperón International Airport |
- Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón
- Current weather for MDPP at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for POP at Aviation Safety Network
