Gregorio Luperón International Airport

Gregorio Luperón International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón
IATA: POP – ICAO: MDPP
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Operator	Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom)
Location	Sosua, Puerto Plata in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic
Elevation AMSL	16 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	19°45′28″N 070°34′12″W / 19.75778°N 70.57000°W / 19.75778; -70.57000Coordinates: 19°45′28″N 070°34′12″W / 19.75778°N 70.57000°W / 19.75778; -70.57000
Website	aerodom.com
Map
MDPP Location of airport in Dominican Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 3,081 10,108 Asphalt
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 744,754 Aircraft Operations 4,811
Sources: Departamento Aeroportuario[1] and DAFIF[2][3]

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.

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

Cargo

Puerto Plata ground crew attending to a flight.

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. Birgenair went bankrupt later that same year.
• 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.

See also

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

References

1. ↑ Departamento Aeroportuario - 2008 passenger statistics
2. ↑ Airport information for MDPP at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
3. ↑ Airport information for POP at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
4. ↑ http://www.puerto-plata-airport.com/index.cfm
5. ↑ "airtransat Adds New Fredericton-Dominican Republic route from March 2017". AirlineRoute. Retrieved July 13, 2016. 
6. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/269973/finnair-w16-leisure-service-additions/
7. ↑ http://www.sunwing.ca/newsstory.asp?id=656&utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=
8. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/267477/tuinordic-adds-puerto-plata-in-w16-network/

External links

Media related to Gregorio Luperón International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón
• Current weather for MDPP at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for POP at Aviation Safety Network