Las Americas International Airport
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Las Américas International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government | ||||||||||
| Operator | Vinci Airports | ||||||||||
| Serves | Santo Domingo | ||||||||||
| Location | La Caleta, Boca Chica in Greater Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Hub for | Dominican Wings | ||||||||||
| Focus city for | Aserca Airlines | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 58 ft / 18 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°25′46″N 069°40′08″W / 18.42944°N 69.66889°WCoordinates: 18°25′46″N 069°40′08″W / 18.42944°N 69.66889°W | ||||||||||
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| Aircraft Operations (2012) | 29,073 |
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| Passengers | 3,686,988 |
| Based Aircraft | 19 approx. |
Las Américas International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas, or AILA) (IATA: SDQ, ICAO: MDSD) 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 private corporation based in the Dominican Republic under a 25-year concession to build, operate, and transfer (BOT) six airports of the country's airports. Las Américas usually receives a wide variety of many long-, mid- and short-haul aircraft.
The airport is the second busiest in the country, after Punta Cana International Airport and one of the largest in the Caribbean, handling 3.5 million passengers in 2015 through its air terminal.
Las Américas Airport opened in 1959 as the official airport of Santo Domingo. The official name of the airport was changed in 2002 to "Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas- José Francisco Peña Gómez (AIJFPG)" but is most commonly referred to as "Las Américas International Airport", or locally, "Las Américas".
On February 15, 1970, a Dominicana de Aviación 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).
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