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Pico Isabel de Torres with a ThomsonFly.com 767-300
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. Having served 1,222,393 passengers in 2008[1], it is Dominican Republic's third busiest airport, after Punta Cana International Airport in Punta Cana and Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo. 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.
[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 notified.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines |
Destinations |
| AeroGal |
Guayaquil, Quito |
| Aeronaves Dominicanas |
Santiago |
| Air Berlin |
Düsseldorf, Munich |
| Air Canada |
Halifax [seasonal], Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson |
| Air Century |
Varadero |
| Air Europa |
Madrid |
| Air Transat |
Calgary [seasonal], Montréal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson [seasonal], Vancouver |
| Air Transat operated by Westjet |
Fredericton [seasonal] |
| Air Turks and Caicos |
Grand Turk [seasonal], Providenciales |
| American Airlines |
Miami |
| American Eagle |
San Juan |
| Arkefly |
Amsterdam |
| CanJet |
Fredericton, Halifax, Quebec City, St. John's |
| Condor |
Frankfurt |
| Continental Airlines |
Newark |
| Corsairfly |
Paris-Orly |
| Delta Air Lines |
Atlanta, New York-JFK [seasonal] |
| Edelweiss Air |
Zurich |
| EuroAtlantic Airways |
Lisbon |
| ExpressJet Airlines |
Jacksonville, Orlando-Sandford |
| Jetairfly |
Brussels |
| JetBlue Airways |
New York-JFK |
| Martinair |
Amsterdam |
| Monarch Airlines |
London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle, Newquay |
| PAWA Dominicana |
San Juan |
| Primera Air |
Dublin |
| Servicios Aereos Profesionales |
Barbados, Beef Island, Holguin, St. Croix [charter service], Havana, Nassau |
| Skyservice |
Aguadilla [charter], Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Kitchener, Moncton, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Regina [seasonal], St. John's, Saskatoon [seasonal], Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver, Winnipeg |
| Sunwing Airlines |
London (ON), Moncton, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Quebec City, Sudbury, Toronto-Pearson, St. John's |
| TAME |
Quito, Guayaquil |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia |
Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Thomas Cook Airlines |
Belfast-International, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) |
| Thomson Airways |
Birmingham (UK), Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) |
| Vacation Express |
Orlando-Sanford |
| WestJet |
Toronto-Pearson |
[edit] Domestic destinations
[edit] Cargo carriers
Puerto Plata ground crew attending to a flight.
| Airlines |
Destinations |
| Amerijet |
Kingston [seasonal], Miami, Santiago de los Caballeros, Saint Vincent |
| DHL |
Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo |
| IBC Airways |
Miami |
| Volga-Dnepr |
Madrid [seasonal] |
[edit] References
- ^ a b 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).
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