Gregorio Luperón International Airport

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 fourth busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, after Punta Cana, Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros airports. 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.

Gregorio Luperón
International Airport

Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
OperatorAeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom)
LocationSosua, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Hub forAir Century
Elevation AMSL16 ft / 5 m
Coordinates19°45′28″N 70°34′12″W
Websiteaerodom.com
Map
MDPP is located in the Dominican Republic
MDPP
MDPP
Location of airport in Dominican Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers875,941
Aircraft Operations4,811
Sources: Departamento Aeroportuario[1] WAD[2] GCM[3]

History

The facility opened in 1979 with the purpose of boosting tourism in the North region, it has a runway 3,081 meters long x 46 meters wide, with the capacity to receive wide-body aircraft, including B-747 and A-340.

Facilities

The main terminal building has 10 gates: 5 with boarding bridges on the satellite concourse, and 2 boarding bridges and 3 without in the frontal concourse. The terminal was recently remodeled with new floors, escalators, immigration hall, departure hall and duty-free areas along with restaurants. The terminal can support 4 Boeing 747-400s simultaneously after renovations to the airport made in 2013/14.[4]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger
AirlinesDestinations
Air Canada Rouge Toronto–Pearson
Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air Transat Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
Seasonal: Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, Québec City
American Airlines Miami
Seasonal: Charlotte
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt1
Edelweiss Air Zurich[5]
InterCaribbean Airways Seasonal: Providenciales
JetBlue New York–JFK
Seasonal: Boston
LOT Polish Airlines Charter: Katowice[6]
Seasonal charter: Poznań,[7] Warsaw–Chopin
Nordwind Airlines Charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Silver Airways San Juan (begins 9 December 2023)[8]
Sunwing Airlines Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson
Seasonal: Halifax, Moncton, Ottawa, Québec City, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
United Airlines Newark
WestJet Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
Amerijet Miami, Santiago de los Caballeros
DHL Aviation Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo–Las Américas
IBC Airways Miami
Notes
  • ^1 Condor's flight from Puerto Plata to Frankfurt flies via Santo Domingo, however, the flight from Frankfurt to Puerto Plata is nonstop.

Statistics
Top Routes from Puerto Plata
(2019)[9]
Rank City Passengers Carriers
1 United States New York - JFK 97,858 JetBlue
2 United States Miami 86,072 American Airlines
3 United States Newark 64,574 United Airlines
4 Poland Warsaw 25,479 LOT Polish Airlines
5 Poland Katowice 21,217 LOT Polish Airlines
6 Canada Toronto - Pearson 18,615 Air Canada Rouge, Air Transat, WestJet
7 Germany Frankfurt 14,867 Condor, Eurowings Discover
8 Canada Montreal - Trudeau 12,678 Air Canada Rouge, Air Transat
9 United States Charlotte 11,812 American Airlines
10 Russia Moscow - Sheremetyevo 7,499 Nordwind Airlines

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 aircraft's speed was too fast or too slow.

See also

References
  1. Departamento Aeroportuario – 2008 passenger statistics
  2. "Airport information for Gregorio Luperón International Airport". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on March 5, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006.
  3. Airport information for Gregorio Luperón International Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
  4. "Puerto Plata Gregorio Luperon Airport". puerto-plata-airport.com. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  5. "Edelweiss fliegt ab November nach Puerto Plata". March 5, 2020.
  6. "Rainbow Tours: Charters from Katowice lot dreamliner". Pasazer (in Polish). February 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  7. "Rainbow Travel Agency". r.pl. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  8. "Route Map". silverairways.com.
  9. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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