LAS AMéRICAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

'Las Américas International Airport' (Spanish: ''Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas-JFPG'') is an international airport located in Punta Caucedo, near Santo Domingo and Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic. The airport is run by Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (AERODOM), a Dominican Republic based private corporation, with a 25 year concession to build, operate and transfer (BOT) 6 airports in the Dominican Republic.
Recently, the expressway leading from Santo Domingo to the airport (roughly 20 km east of the city center) was expanded and modernised. The new expressway crosses a new suspension bridge which spans the Ozama River, connecting traffic into the city's Elevated Freeway and Tunnel system onto the city's main street, Av. 27 de Febrero. A more scenic route following the coastal shore provides beautiful views of the Caribbean Sea and of the city. This secondary road crosses the Ozama River by means of a floating bridge, connecting traffic onto the Av. George Washington (el Malecón) which leads into the heart of the colonial city.
The airport is the largest in the Dominican Republic and one of the largest in the Caribbean, handling just under 3 million passengers per year through its air terminal.
''Las Américas International Airport'' can receive airplanes up to the size of Boeing 747 and Airbus A340s. Aerolíneas Argentinas, Dominicana de Aviacion and Iberia Air France are among the airlines that have flown 747 airplanes into ''SDQ''. Iberia occasionally flies A340s there.
The official name of the airport was changed in 2002 to "Aeropuerto Internacional Las Americas- José Francisco Peña Gómez (AIJFPG)" but is most commonly referred to as "Las Americas International Airport", or locally, "Las Americas".
On February 15, 1970, a Dominicana de Aviación's DC-9 that was flying to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, crashed, killing all 102 persons on board (see: Dominicana DC-9 air disaster).
Frequent flights are received from Barajas International Airport in Madrid, Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, JFK International Airport in New York City, Miami International Airport in Miami, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (the world's largest passenger hub) in Atlanta, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and some domestics destinations like Cibao Intl in Santiago and Punta Cana Intl in Punta Cana.
''Las Américas'' was the hub for Dominicana, APA Dominicana International, and a number of other, smaller airlines. Currently, no airlines use Las Américas a hub.
Las Americas has 6 gates on the main satellite concourse (A), A1 through A6, which have a shared use. In the same concourse there is an American Eagle gate, A7. Other gates facilities are for the flights departing from a parking in the taxiway.
American Airlines is the major airline operating in Las Americas. It has 3 daily flights to New York (inbound / outbound), 6 flights to San Juan, and 4 to Miami. Delta has one daily flight to / from JFK, and a daily flight to/from Atlanta. Delta's daily flight from Fort Lauderdale will end August 31, 2007. Iberia has a daily flight from Madrid and Spirit Airlines has a daily one from Fort Lauderdale. Continental has during the week 1 daily flight to / from Newark and two on Sundays. US Airways has a flight on Saturday to / from Philadelphia. Air France also operates nonstop service to their Paris-Charles De Gaulle (CDG) hub several times each week.

Contents

The new Northern terminal

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A

Terminal B

Domestic Terminal

Domestic destinations

Cargo Carriers

External links

The new Northern terminal

This new terminal is complete and open for Operations. It is a modern terminal within the country itself and one of the best in the Caribbean, featuring free wireless Internet, electric escalators, elevators, jet bridges. It can accommodate 4 747 Jumbo Boeing simultaneously. At a cost of more than a 100 million dollars, this terminal is expected to turn Las Americas into one of the busiest airports in Latin America.
This new terminal has four gates with boarding bridges, air-conditioning system and maintenance facilities for aircraft. This is the reason why American Airlines does not have any flights from the Terminal A since the airport build the new Terminal B.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A

Gates A1 through A6 and American Eagle's gate A7

★ Aerocaribbean (Santiago de Cuba)

★ Aeropostal (Curacao, Caracas)

★ Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson) [seasonal]

★ Air Caraibes (Fort-de-France, Havana, Pointe-à-Pitre)

★ Air Europa (Madrid)

★ Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

★ American Airlines (See in Terminal B) [Only delayed flights]

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★ American Eagle (See in Terminal B) [Only gate A7]

★ Aserca Airlines (Aruba, Curacao, Caracas, Punta Cana)

★ Avior Airlines (Caracas)

★ Bahamas Air (Nassau) [charter]

★ Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, San José (CR))

★ Corsair (Paris-Orly) [seasonal]

★ Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)

★ Fisher Air Polska (Warsaw) [seasonal]

★ Iberia (Madrid)

★ Insel Air (Curacao, St Maarten)

★ Lauda Air (Vienna) [Seasonal]

★ Leeward Islands Air Transport (Antigua)

★ LTU International (Munich) [seasonal]

★ Malev Hungarian Airlines (Madrid) [seasonal]

★ Myrtle Beach Direct Air operated by Sky King, Inc. (Georgetown, New York-JFK, Fort Lauderdale, Santiago (DR))

★ Pan Am World Airways Dominicana (Port-au-Prince, Aguadilla [Restarts in 2007], San Juan [Starts in 2007/Pending of rights approval] Santiago, Providenciales [Starts in 2007/Pending of rights approval])

★ Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson) [seasonal]

★ Sunwing Airlines (Montreal [starts December 20, 2007])

★ TAG Aviation (Fort Lauderdale, Nassau, New York-JFK) [Charter Service]

★ US Airways (Philadelphia)

★ Viva Air (Aruba, Curacao, San Juan, Santiago)

★ Westjet (Montreal)

★ Zoom Airlines (Toronto-Pearson)[Seasonal]

Terminal B

Gates B1 through B4

★ Air Plus Comet (Madrid)

★ American Airlines (Boston, Fort Lauderdale [begins December 14], Miami, New York-JFK, San Juan)

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★ American Eagle (San Juan, St. Maarten)

★ Continental Airlines (Newark)

★ Copa Airlines (Panama City)

★ Cubana de Aviación (Havana)

★ JetBlue Airways (New York-JFK)

★ Spirit Airlines (Fort Lauderdale)

★ TACA

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★ Lacsa (San Jose}

Domestic Terminal

This Terminal is located next to the Cargo Terminal and is used for flights into the Dominican Republic and some private flights.

Domestic destinations

★ Aeronaves Dominicanas (Samaná, Santo Domingo-La Isabela)

★ Air Century (Constanza, Santiago)

★ Air Santo Domingo (Santiago, La Romana, Punta Cana, Puerto Plata, Samana-Arroyo Barril, Samana-El Portillo, Barahona, Santo Domingo-La Isabela)

★ Caribair (Montecristi [charter service]), Santiago, Punta Cana, Cabo Rojo, Aruba, Curazao, Aguadilla, San Juan, Varadero, Holguin, Santiago de Cuba, Havana[Charter Service], Port of Spain [Seasonal], St. Maarten)

★ Pan Am World Airways Dominicana (Santiago[Charter service], Punta Cana, Samana-El Catey, Santo Domingo-La Isabela, Aguadilla, San Juan)

★ Viva Air (Punta Cana, Santo Domingo)

Cargo Carriers

★ Amerijet (Miami, Santiago, Port Au Prince, St. Maarten, San Juan, Dominica, Grenada)

★ Caribe Trans (Santiago)

★ FedEx

★ UPS (Miami)

★ Mountain Air Cargo (Aguadilla)

★ Contract Air Cargo (Aguadilla)

External links

★ Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas-JFPG

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★ FlightAware