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Punta Cana International Airport

Aeropuerto Internacional Punta Cana
Summary
Airport typePublic/Private
OwnerGrupo PuntaCana
OperatorPunta Cana Resort and Club/Grupo PuntaCana
ServesPunta Cana, Higuey
LocationPunta Cana in La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic
Elevation AMSL40 ft / 12.2 m
Websitepuntacanainternationalairport.com
Map
MDPC is located in the Dominican Republic
MDPC
MDPC
Location of airport in Dominican Republic
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/26 10,171 3,100 Asphalt/Con 1
09/27 10,171 3,100 Asphalt/Con 2
Statistics (2013)
Passengers5,285,000
Aircraft Operations52,000 (2013)
Source: Banco Central República Dominicana
1 Runway 08/26 All traffic.
2 Runway 09/27 Light traffic only.

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. Grupo PuntaCana built the Punta Cana International Airport and inaugurated it in 1984. It became the first privately-owned international airport in the world.[1] A number of scheduled and charter airlines fly to Punta Cana. Currently more than 5.1 million passengers (arrivals and departures combined) pass through the terminals, moved by almost 60,000 commercial aircraft operations.[2] The operators of the airport, Corporación Aeroportuaria del Este, S.A. (a private corporation run by Puntacana Resort and Club),[3] expanded the facility in November 2011 with a new runway and Air Traffic Control tower designed to support the robust growth of travel to the region.

In 2014, the airport accounted for 60% of all air arrivals in the Dominican Republic.[4]

Terminals

Aircraft parked at several gates adjacent to Terminal 1
Terminal 2 departure lounge.
Martinair B767-300ER at PUJ

The airport has five terminals: International Terminals A and B for international passenger travel; FBO Terminal, located west of terminal B, for executive general aviation, both national and international; National Terminal, located east of the FBO terminal, for national charter and general aviation; VIP Terminal, Located east of Terminal A, a private terminal including an aircraft parking apron. Punta Cana International Airport currently serves as a destination for 53 different airlines from over 40 countries.[5] Terminal B was built to hold larger aircraft like the Airbus A380 along with 8 airbridges, one being for the A380. This new terminal was completed in 2014. Transaero is to begin service with their A380 once delivered by Airbus.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal[6]
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo A
Aerolíneas Argentinas Buenos Aires-Ezeiza[7] A
Aerolíneas Mas Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo-La Isabela D
Air Antilles Express Seasonal: Pointe-à-Pitre[8] A
Air Berlin Düsseldorf, Munich B
Air Canada Seasonal: Halifax, Ottawa B
Air Canada Rouge Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson B
Air Europa Madrid A
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle B
Air Transat Montréal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson
Seasonal: Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, London (ON), Ottawa, Regina, St. John's, Thunder Bay, Vancouver, Winnipeg 		A
American Airlines Miami
Seasonal: New York-JFK		 B
Arkefly Amsterdam
Seasonal Charter: Basel/Mulhouse, Warsaw-Chopin[9] 		A
Avianca Bogota B
Avianca Peru Lima B
British Airways London-Gatwick B
Condor Frankfurt, Munich
Seasonal: Vienna 		A
Copa Airlines Panama City B
Copa Airlines Colombia Bogota, Panama City B
Corsair International Paris-Orly A
Delta Air Lines Atlanta, New York-JFK, Pittsburgh
Seasonal: Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul 		B
Dniproavia Seasonal charter: Kiev-Boryspil[10] A
Edelweiss Air Zürich B
Eurowings
operated by SunExpress Deutschland 		Cologne/Bonn (begins 7 November 2015)[11] TBA
Evelop Airlines Seasonal charter: Madrid[12] A
Frontier Airlines Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee A
Gol Transportes Aéreos Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Campinas, Miami, Orlando, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos B
Insel Air Curaçao (begins 15 November 2015)[13]
Seasonal: Miami, San Juan 		A
Insel Air Aruba Aruba (begins 15 November 2015)[14] A
Jetairfly Brussels[15] A
JetBlue Airways Boston, Fort Lauderdale,[16] New York-JFK, San Juan A
LAN Airlines Miami, Santiago de Chile A
LAN Argentina Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Miami A
LAN Peru Lima A
Orenair Charter: Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Yekaterinburg A
Orbest Seasonal charter: Lisbon A
Perla Airlines Porlamar A
SATA International Charter: Lisbon A
Servicios Aéreos Profesionales Antigua, Aruba, Bridgetown, Curaçao, Holguin, Pointe-à-Pitre, Port of Spain, St. Maarten, Santo Domingo-Las Américas, Varadero A
Seaborne Airlines San Juan A
Southwest Airlines Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago-Midway
Seasonal: Milwaukee		 1
Spirit Airlines Seasonal: Fort Lauderdale A
Sun Country Airlines Seasonal: Minneapolis/St. Paul[17] A
Sunwing Airlines Montreal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson
Seasonal: Bagotville, Calgary, Gander, Halifax, London (ON), Moncton, Ottawa, St John's, Saint John, Kitchener, Hamilton, Val-d'Or, Winnipeg, Vancouver 		A
Swift Air operated by Vacation ExpressSeasonal: Pittsburgh A
Thomas Cook Airlines Charter: London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) A
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Charter: Copenhagen, Stockholm A
Thomson Airways Charter: Birmingham (UK), East Midlands,[18] London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK)
Seasonal: Glasgow-International, Newcastle upon Tyne 		A
Transaero Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo, St. Petersburg		 A
TUIfly
operated by Thomson Airways		 Seasonal charter: Hamburg A
United Airlines Houston-Intercontinental, Newark
Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles 		B
US Airways
operated by American Airlines 		Charlotte, Philadelphia
Seasonal: Boston 		B
Vacation Express
operated by Sunwing Airlines 		Seasonal charter: Baltimore,[19] Buffalo,[20] Charlotte, Cincinnati, Nashville,[21] Columbus (OH), New Orleans, Newark 1
Wamos Air Madrid A
WestJet Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
Seasonal: Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, St. John's 		A
White Airways Seasonal charter: Lisbon[22] A
Wind Rose Aviation Charter: Kiev-Boryspil[23] A
XL Airways France Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes,[24] Toulouse[25] 		A
Xtra Airways operated by Apple Vacations Seasonal: Pittsburgh A

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 4 years the aircraft movements will double. At the moment the airport counts on two International Terminals; FBO Terminal, a main incline with 12 positions; National Terminal; and VIP Terminal.

Cancun International Airport, Havana International Airport, and Punta Cana International Airport are the only airports in Latin America with direct flights to Russia.

In the Caribbean, Punta Cana International Airport is the second busiest airport, surpassed only by Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

LAN B767-300ER pulling in

Top destinations

Busiest international routes from PUJ
(2013)[26]
Rank City Passengers Carriers
1 Toronto (YYZ) 315,533 Air Canada, Air Transat, CanJet, Sunwing, Westjet
2 Paris (CDG) 312,129 Air France, XL Airways
3 Atlanta (ATL) 294,513 Delta, Southwest
4 Miami (MIA) 251, 183 American Airlines, Gol Transportes Aéreos
5 Panama City (PTY) 249, 094 Copa, AeroRepublica
6 Montreal (YUL) 230,563 Air Canada, Air Transat, CanJet, Sunwing
7 Charlotte (CLT) 198,770 US Airways
8 New York (JFK) 195,820 JetBlue, Delta
9 Moscow(DME) 180, 018 Transaero
10 Newark (EWR) 156,594 United

Airport expansion

Punta Cana's Airport operators completed an ambitious airport expansion project in November 2011. The airport includes a new runway, a control tower equipped with the most modern radio and air traffic control equipment in the Caribbean. Additionally, there is a new Terminal Approach Radar Control facility and a new Automated Weather Observation Station (AWOS). This new facility also provides a back-up to the National Radar System located in Santo Domingo. A second international terminal opened in 2014 is designed to accommodate 6,500 passengers daily.[4]

U.S. Preclearance

Plans were underway for a U.S. immigration and customs preclearance station to be opened at the airport by the end of summer 2009,[27] however, as of March 2013 the facility had not yet opened.

Accidents and incidents

On October 13, 2014, a Jetstream Bae 32 aircraft belonging to Air Century Airlines caught fire on an engine while landing after a charter flight from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The airplane crew declared an emergency and landed the aircraft at 8:45 PM local time, after a 49-minute flight, but the plane was destroyed in a subsequent fire. There were no injuries among the 13 passengers and two crew members on the flight.[28]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.puntacanainternationalairport.com/assets/punta-cana-tech-data-fact-sheet_2015.pdf
  2. ^ "– Airport Information". Puntacanainternationalairport.com.
  3. ^ http://www.puntacanainternationalairport.com/assets/punta-cana-tech-data-fact-sheet_2015.pdf
  4. ^ a b Major, Brian (22 January 2015). "North Americans Drove Dominican Republic's Record 2014 Tourism Growth". travAlliancemedia. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  5. ^ http://www.puntacanainternationalairport.com/assets/punta-cana-tech-data-fact-sheet_2015.pdf
  6. ^ http://www.puntacanablogs.com/blog/puj-is-ready-to-inaugurate-modern-convenient-air-travel-with-terminal-b
  7. ^ Aerolineas Argentinas launches new routes in the Caribbean
  8. ^ "Route Map". Flyairantilles.com. 31 August 2013.
  9. ^ http://www.tuitam.pl/rozklad_lotow
  10. ^ "Flight schedule". "Dniproavia" airlines. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  11. ^ https://www.facebook.com/KoelnBonnAirport/posts/899956090049850
  12. ^ "Evelop Air destinations at official website". Evelopair.com.
  13. ^ http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/caribbean-airline-group-inselair-pursues-more-rapid-expansion-with-13-new-routes-from-aruba-curacao-231129
  14. ^ http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/caribbean-airline-group-inselair-pursues-more-rapid-expansion-with-13-new-routes-from-aruba-curacao-231129
  15. ^ "Jetairfly Flight Plan". Jetairfly.
  16. ^ "JetBlue Adds Nonstops to the Caribbean From Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood – Yahoo Finance". Finance.yahoo.com. 29 October 2013.
  17. ^ Sun Country Airlines. Flight Schedule, suncountry.com, retrieved 2011-May-17
  18. ^ "First Choice | Flights | Book flights online with First Choice | Timetable". Flights.firstchoice.co.uk.
  19. ^ http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-bwi-vacation-express-20150526-story.html?track=rss
  20. ^ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/sunwing-airlines-announces-new-non-stop-flights-from-buffalo-cancun-punta-cana-this-1937601.htm
  21. ^ "Punta Cana All-Inclusive Vacation Package Deals from Nashville | BNA to PUJ – All Inclusive Vacation Packages by Vacation Express". Vacationexpress.com.
  22. ^ "White charter operation to Punta Cana, Samaná and Montego Bay".
  23. ^ "Main information | WINDROSE". Windrose.aero. 28 April 2014.
  24. ^ Aéroport de Nantes Atlantique- Punta Cana au départ de Nantes Atlantique[dead link‍]
  25. ^ Aéroport Toulouse- Flight Toulouse/Punta Cana (Dominican Republic)[dead link‍]
  26. ^ "IDAC traffic Statistics". Idac.gob.do.
  27. ^ Busiest Dominican airport to have U.S. Customs, Immigration station, Nuevo Diario reports from the Dominican Times retrieved 25 July 2008
  28. ^ http://www.elnuevodia.com/SeincendiaavinquedespegdesdeSanJuan-1872202.html

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