Punta Cana International Airport

Punta Cana International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Punta Cana
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IATA: PUJ – ICAO: MDPC
Summary
Airport type	Public/Private
Owner	Grupo PuntaCana
Operator	Punta Cana Resort and Club/Grupo PuntaCana
Serves	Punta Cana, Higuey
Location	Punta Cana in La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic
Elevation AMSL	40 ft / 12.2 m
Coordinates
Website	puntacanainternationalairport.com
Map
MDPC Location of airport in Dominican Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 08/26 10,171 3,100 Asphalt/Con 09/27 10,171 3,100 Asphalt/Con
Statistics (2013)
Passengers 5,285,000 Aircraft Operations 52,000 (2,013)
Source: Banco Central República Dominicana Runway 08/26 All traffic. 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. 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. The operators of the airport, Corporación Aeroportuaria del Este, S.A. (a private corporation run by Puntacana Resort and Club), 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.

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 serves 96 cities in 28 countries. Terminal B was built to hold larger aircraft like the Airbus A380 along with 7 airbridges, one being for the Airbus A380. This new terminal was completed in 2014 and can comfortably accommodate 6,500 travelers daily and over 2 million travelers annually.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aerolíneas Argentinas	Buenos Aires-Ezeiza	A
Aerolíneas Mas	Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo-La Isabela	B
Air Antilles Express	Seasonal: Pointe-à-Pitre	A
Air Berlin	Düsseldorf, Munich (ends 30 April 2016)	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, Windsor, Winnipeg	A
American Airlines	Charlotte, Miami, Philadelphia Seasonal: Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, New York-JFK	B
Apple Vacations operated by Allegiant Air	Seasonal charter: Pittsburgh	A
Avianca	Bogota	B
Avianca Peru	Lima	B
Azur Air	Seasonal charter: Moscow-Domodedovo	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 Seasonal: Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Pittsburgh	B
Edelweiss Air	Zürich	B
Eurowings operated by SunExpress Deutschland	Cologne/Bonn	B
Evelop Airlines	Seasonal charter: Madrid	A
Frontier Airlines	Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland	A
Gol Transportes Aéreos	Belo Horizonte–Confins, Brasília, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos Seasonal: Miami, Orlando	B
Insel Air	Curaçao Seasonal: Miami, San Juan	A
Insel Air Aruba	Aruba	A
Jetairfly	Brussels	A
JetBlue Airways	Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York-JFK, San Juan	A
LAN Airlines	Miami, Santiago de Chile	A
LAN Argentina	Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Miami	A
LAN Colombia	Bogotá	A
LAN Peru	Lima	A
Nordwind	Moscow-Sheremetyevo, St. Petersburg	A
Orenair	Moscow-Vnukovo	B
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	A
Spirit Airlines	Seasonal: Fort Lauderdale	A
Sun Country Airlines	Seasonal: Minneapolis/St. Paul	A
Sunwing Airlines	Montreal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson Seasonal: Bagotville, Calgary, Gander, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener, London (ON), Moncton, Ottawa, Saint John, St. John's, Val-d'Or, Vancouver, Winnipeg	A
Swift Air operated by Vacation Express	Seasonal: Pittsburgh	A
TAM Linhas Aéreas	Brasília	A
Thomas Cook Airlines	Charter: London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK)	A
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia	Charter: Copenhagen, Stockholm	A
Thomson Airways	Charter: Birmingham (resumes 7 May 2016), London-Gatwick, Manchester Seasonal: Glasgow-International	A
TUI Airlines Netherlands	Amsterdam Seasonal charter: Basel/Mulhouse, Warsaw-Chopin	A
TUIfly operated by Thomson Airways	Seasonal charter: Hamburg	A
United Airlines	Houston-Intercontinental, Newark Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles	B
Vacation Express operated by Sunwing Airlines	Seasonal charter: Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Columbus (OH), Nashville, New Orleans, Newark	A
Vacation Express operated by Swift Air	Seasonal charter: Cleveland, Columbus (OH), Indianapolis (begins 13 February 2016)	A
Wamos Air	Madrid	A
WestJet	Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson Seasonal: Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, St. John's	A
White Airways	Seasonal charter: Lisbon	A
XL Airways France	Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse	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 Boeing 767-300ER pulling in

Statistics

Top destinations

Busiest international routes from PUJ (2013)

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 Airlines, Copa Airlines Colombia
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.

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, however, this has not yet begun. According Frank Rainieri, president of Grupo Puntacana, negotiations have re-opened (June, 2015) and he anticipates that this airport will be the first in Latin America to offer such preclearance service.

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.

See also

• List of the busiest airports in Dominican Republic
• List of the busiest airports in the Caribbean

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Punta Cana International Airport – Official website
• Airport information for MDPC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• airport-technology.com provides key data and information