Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Gregorio Luperón International Airport Puerto Plata Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Joint (Civil and Military) | ||||||||||
| Operator | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom) | ||||||||||
| Location | Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 15 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°45′28.44″N 70°34′12.12″W / 19.7579000°N 70.5700333°W | ||||||||||
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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 second largest airport, after Las Americas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Dominican Republic near 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 at has also drawn a number of regularly scheduled passenger airlines over the years.
The 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 3 Boeing 747-400 simultaneously.
Incidents
On February 6, 1996 Birgenair Flight 301 was bound for Frankfurt, Germany but crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata Airport in the Dominican Republic into Atlantic Ocean 26 km off-shore. All 176 passengers and 13 crew members, among them 164 Germans, were killed. It was found that one of the air speed indicators of the Boeing 757-225 was not working properly, confusing the pilots about whether the plane's speed was too fast or too slow.
Airlines and destinations
- Aeronaves Dominicanas (Santiago, Samaná)
- Aeropostal (Caracas, Curacao)
- Air Canada (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Air Turks and Caicos (Grand Turk, Providenciales)
- American Airlines (Miami, New York-JFK [seasonal])
- American Eagle operated by Executive Air (San Juan)
- Belair (Zurich)
- CanJet (Halifax)
- Caribair (Santo Domingo)
- Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Edelweiss Air (Zurich)
- EuroAtlantic Airways (Lisbon)
- First Choice Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK))
- Iberworld (Madrid)
- Jetairfly (Brussels)
- LTU International (Düsseldorf, Munich)
- Martinair (Amsterdam, Punta Cana)
- Monarch Airlines (Newcastle)
- MyTravel Airways (Birmingham (UK), Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK), Cardiff)
- Novair (Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Servicios Aereos Profesionales (Santo Domingo [charter service], Holguin, St. Croix [charter service])
- SkyKing Turks and Caicos Airways (Grand Turk, Providenciales)
- Skyservice (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Kitchener, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)
- Sunwing Airlines (Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Birmingham (UK), London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK))
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Doncaster/Sheffield, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK))
- USA 3000 Airlines (Milwaukee)
- Vacation Express (Orlando-Sanford)
- WestJet (Toronto-Pearson [seasonal, starts December 11, 2007])
Domestic destinations
- Aeronaves Dominicanas (Santiago, Samaná)
- Air Century (Constanza, Santo Domingo)
- Air Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo)
- Caribair (Santo Domingo, Holguin, Varadero, Santiago de Cuba)
Cargo Carriers
Gallery
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B747-400 at exit E-1 arriving from Paris.
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Airbus A330 of LTU exiting E-1 at Gregorio Luperon Intl.
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Puerto Plata ground crew attending to a flight.
