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Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio LuperónIATA: POP – ICAO: MDPP Location of airport in Dominican Republic
POPSummary Airport type Public / Military Operator Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom) Location Sosua, Puerto Plata in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic Elevation AMSL 15 ft / 5 m Coordinates 19°45′28″N 70°34′12″W / 19.75778°N 70.57°W Website Runways Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 3,081 10,108 Asphalt Statistics (Jan-Sept 2011) Passengers 605,341 Sources: Departamento Aeroportuario[1] and DAFIF[2][3] 
Pico Isabel de Torres with a ThomsonFly.com 767-300
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's the Dominican Republic's fourth busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements. 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.
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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 three Boeing 747-400s simultaneously.
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 plane's speed was too fast or too slow.
- On January 22, 2009, Air Turks and Caicos flight 5103 landed in Puerto Plata and punched one of the gears in the middle of the runways; as a result the airport had to be closed for 5 hours and all incoming flights had been diverted to Santiago, Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. No injures were reported.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations AeroGal Guayaquil, Quito Aeronaves Dominicanas Samaná, Santiago de los Caballeros Air Berlin Düsseldorf, Munich Air Canada Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
Seasonal: HalifaxAir Century Constanza, Santo Domingo, Varadero Air Transat Seasonal: Calgary, Montréal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver Air Turks and Caicos Providenciales, San Juan [4] American Airlines Miami Arkefly Amsterdam CanJet Fredericton, Halifax, Montréal-Trudeau, Quebec City, St. John's, Toronto-Pearson, Winnipeg Condor Frankfurt Continental Airlines Newark Edelweiss Air Zurich Enerjet Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson EuroAtlantic Airways Lisbon ExpressJet Airlines Jacksonville, Orlando-Sanford Jetairfly Brussels JetBlue Airways New York-JFK Monarch London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle PAWA Dominicana Seasonal: San Juan Primera Air Dublin Servicios Aéreos Profesionales Barbados, Beef Island, Holguin, Havana, Nassau
Charter: St. CroixSunwing Airlines London (ON), Moncton, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, Quebec City, Sudbury, Toronto-Pearson, St. John's TAME Quito, Guayaquil Thomas Cook Airlines Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK) Thomas Cook Canada operated by Jazz Air Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Stockholm-Arlanda Thomson Airways East Midlands [5], London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK)
Seasonal: Glasgow-InternationalVacation Express Orlando-Sanford WestJet Toronto-Pearson Cargo carriers
Puerto Plata ground crew attending to a flight.Airlines Destinations Amerijet Miami, Santiago de los Caballeros, Saint Vincent
Seasonal: KingstonDHL Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo IBC Airways Miami Volga-Dnepr Seasonal: Madrid See also
- List of the busiest airports in Dominican Republic
References
- ^ Departamento Aeroportuario - 2008 passenger statistics
- ^ Airport information for MDPP at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for POP at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- ^ http://www.puertoplatadigital.com/verNoticia.aspx?Id=5120
- ^ http://flights.firstchoice.co.uk/firstchoice/en-GB/timetable/findbyroute?departure=EMA&destination=POP
External links
- Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón
- Current weather for MDPP at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for POP at Aviation Safety Network
Airports in the Dominican Republic International Santo Domingo/Las Américas International · Punta Cana International · Santiago/Cibao International · Puerto Plata/Gregorio Luperón International · La Romana International · Samaná El Catey International · Barahona/María Montez International · Santo Domingo/La Isabela International · Samana/Arroyo Barril International
Domestic Military Field Azua Dominica · Boca Chica/Batey Luisa · Consuelo · Consuelo/Batey Anita · Cotui/Angelina · Cotui/San Miguel · El Valle · Enriquillo · Valverde/Esperanza · Higuey/Baigua · Jimani · La Romana/La Caleta · La Vega/El Ponton · Montecristi/Walterio · Monte Plata Batley J. Sanchez · San Cristobal/Los Montones · San Pedro/Ing. Quisqueya
Closed Herrera International Airport · Santiago Municipal Airport
Categories:- Puerto Plata Province
- Airports in the Dominican Republic
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