Punta Cana International Airport
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| Punta Cana International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Punta Cana |
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| IATA: PUJ – ICAO: MDPC | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public/Private | ||
| Owner | City of Punta Cana | ||
| Operator | Punta Cana Resort and Club/Grupo Punta Cana | ||
| Serves | Punta Cana, Higuey | ||
| Location | Punta Cana in La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 40 ft / 12.2 m | ||
| Coordinates | 18°34′0″N 68°21′7″W / 18.56667°N 68.35194°W | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 09/27 | 10,171 | 3,100 | Asphalt/Concrete |
| Statistics (2007 Jan-Jun) | |||
| Aircraft operations | 23,680 | ||
| Passengers | 1,960,959 | ||
| Based Aircraft | 13 | ||
| Source:Departamento Aeropuertuario | |||
Punta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) is a privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport is built in a traditional Dominican style with open-air terminals with their roofs covered in palm fronds. A number of scheduled and charter airlines fly to Punta Cana. The airport handled more than 1 million visitors in 2002, making it the busiest airport in the Dominican Republic. In 2007, Punta Cana received more than 3 million passengers. The operators plan to upgrade the airport, including adding another runway.[citation needed]
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[edit] Airport expansion
The Punta Cana's Airport operators have planned an ambitious airport expansion project. The project consists of a new larger runway, expansion of the existing taxiway, construction of a new taxiway, a new control tower, the installation of the ILS, new frequencies of radio and the expansion of the International Terminal.
[edit] New runway planned
Due to increased air traffic, there are plans to construct a new runway in the near future. The runway will be built on the north side of the current runway and it will be able to accommodate a large aircraft such as the Airbus A380. This project is still in the planning stages, as it is still pending approval from the government. If approved, construction will commence at the end of 2008.[citation needed]
[edit] U.S. Preclearance
Plans are underway for a U.S. immigration and customs preclearance station to be opened at the airport by the end of summer 2009. [1]
[edit] Traffic and growth
Punta Cana's airport is the leading point of entry in number of arriving passengers in the Dominican Republic. It is also the fastest growing airport with almost a 20% increase in traffic yearly, which indicates that in less than 5 years the aircraft movements will double. At the moment the airport counts on two international terminals, one VIP, domestics and an FBO, a main incline with 12 positions.
Jose Marti International Airport, in Havana, Cuba and Punta Cana International Airport are the only two airports with connecting flights to Russia. It makes Punta Cana's airport the only Latin American airport with regularly scheduled direct flights to both Russia and the United States.
Punta Cana Group (Punta Cana's Airport owners) are discussing opening direct routes to the United Arab Emirates and to China in Asia sometime by 2009. Punta Cana International Airport will be the first Caribbean airport to have direct flights to Asia.
In the Caribbean, Punta Cana International Airport is surpassed only by Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, in San Juan, Puerto Rico and by Cancun International Airport in Cancun that are the first and the second airports respectively.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
[edit] Terminal 1
The Main Terminal has twelve gates in and is divided into two parts: FBO Terminal and VIP Terminal Those Two parts conform the Terminal 1.
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aerolíneas Argentinas | Buenos Aires-Ezeiza [seasonal] |
| Aero Republica | Bogota |
| Aeropostal | Caracas |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel [resumes October 21], Düsseldorf, Munich |
| Air Canada | Calgary, Halifax, Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson, Winnipeg |
| Air Comet | Madrid |
| Air Dominicana | Caracas |
| Air Europa | Madrid |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Pullmantur | Madrid |
| Air Transat | Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal-Trudeau, Quebec City, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver |
| American Airlines | Miami, New York-JFK |
| American Eagle | San Juan |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| Aserca Airlines | Caracas, Santo Domingo |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna [seasonal] |
| Avianca | Bogota |
| Belair operated by Air Berlin | Zurich |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick [begins October 25] [2] |
| CanJet | Halifax, Ottawa, Quebec City, St, John's, Toronto-Pearson |
| Condor Airlines | Frankfurt |
| Continental Airlines | Newark |
| Conviasa | Caracas [seasonal] |
| Copa Airlines | Panama City |
| Corsairfly | Paris-Orly |
| Czech Airlines | Prague [Seasonal] |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky [seasonal; begins December 19], Detroit [seasonal; begins November 21], Minneapolis/St. Paul [seasonal; begins December 19][3], New York-JFK |
| Edelweiss Air | Zürich |
| Enerjet | Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver [Seasonal] |
| EuroAtlantic Airways | Faro, Lisbon |
| Eurofly | Milan-Malpensa,Rome-Fiumicino |
| Gol Transportes Aereos | Sao Paulo-Garulhos 2 |
| Iberworld | Barcelona, Madrid |
| Jetairfly | Brussels |
| LAN Airlines | Miami, Santiago de Chile |
| LAN Argentina | Miami, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza |
| Livingston Energy Flight | Milan-Malpensa, Antigua |
| Martinair | Amsterdam, Brussels |
| Miami Air | Atlantic City [seasonal], Boston, Chicago-Rockford, Miami, New York-JFK, Norfolk [seasonal], Detroit |
| Orbest | Lisbon |
| PAWA Dominicana | Aguadilla, Ponce |
| Skyservice | Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener, Montreal-Trudeau, Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver, Winnipeg |
| Spirit Airlines | Fort Lauderdale [seasonal] |
| Sun Country Airlines | Minneapolis/St. Paul [seasonal] |
| Sunwing Airlines | Bagotville, Gander, Halifax, London (ON), Moncton, Montreal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Quebec City, St. John's, Saint John, Toronto-Pearson, St. Petersburg/Clearwater |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) |
| Thomson Airways | Birmingham (UK), London-Gatwick, Glasgow-International, Manchester (UK) |
| Transaero | Moscow-domodedovo, St.Petersburg |
| United Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles |
| US Airways | Boston, Charlotte, Philadelphia |
| USA3000 Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky [seasonal], Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis |
| WestJet | Hamilton [seasonal; starts November 1], Ottawa [seasonal; starts November 7], Thunder Bay [seasonal; starts November 7], Toronto-Pearson |
| White Airways | Lisbon |
| XL Airways France | Brussels, Marseille, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse |
2: Gol operates via Caracas CCS
[edit] Terminal 2
This new Terminal 2, is a part of the Main Terminal 1. It was opened in February 5.[citation needed]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Transat | Quebec-City, Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson |
| Air Canada | Calgary |
[edit] Terminal 3 (Domestic)
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Located next to the International Terminal 1, the domestic terminal is used for flights from others airports in the nation such as Las Américas International Airport, and Cibao International Airport and some private flights.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aerolineas Mas | Santo Domingo-La Isabela |
| Air Century | Santo Domingo |
| Caribbean Air Sign | Santo Domingo, Samana, Puerto Plata, Santiago |
| PAWA Dominicana | Santiago, Santo Domingo-Las Americas |
| Servicios Aereos Profesionales | Varadero, Antigua, Bridgetown, St. Maarten, Port of Spain, Holguin, Curaçao, Aruba, Santo Domingo, Pointe-à-Pitre |
[edit] References
- ^ Busiest Dominican airport to have U.S. Customs, Immigration station, Nuevo Diario reports from the Dominican Times retrieved 25 July 2008
- ^ http://bapress.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bapress.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=b*M1*lyj&p_faqid=7641
- ^ http://www.delta.com/planning_reservations/plan_flight/destinations/new_routes/index.jsp#caribbean
[edit] External links
- Airport information for MDPC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
