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Las Américas International Airport

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Las Américas International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas-JFPG) (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 Dominican Republic based private corporation, with a 25 year concession to build, operate and transfer (BOT) 6 airports in the Dominican Republic.

Recently, the expressway leading from Santo Domingo to the airport (roughly 20 km east of the city center) was expanded and modernised. The new expressway crosses a new suspension bridge which spans the Ozama River, connecting traffic into the city's Elevated Freeway and Tunnel system onto the city's main street, Av. 27 de Febrero. A more scenic route following the coastal shore provides beautiful views of the Caribbean Sea and of the city. This secondary road crosses the Ozama River by means of a floating bridge, connecting traffic onto the Av. George Washington (el Malecón) which leads into the heart of the colonial city.

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You could see an American B777-200 at gate A2, an B737-200 of Aeromar, an A310-300 of Air Plus Comet at gate A5, and a B737-800 of Copa Airlines at gate A6. All in the South terminal A.

The airport is the largest in the Dominican Republic and one of the largest in the Caribbean, handling just under 3 million passengers per year through its air terminal.

Las Américas International Airport can receive airplanes up to the size of Boeing 747 and Airbus A340s. Aerolíneas Argentinas, Dominicana de Aviacion and Iberia Air France are among the airlines that have flown 747 airplanes into SDQ. Iberia occasionally flies A340s there.

The official name of the airport was changed in 2002 to "Aeropuerto Internacional Las Americas- José Francisco Peña Gómez (AIJFPG)" but is most commonly referred to as "Las Americas International Airport", or locally, "Las Americas".

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Airbus A300 American Airlines in gate B4 at Terminal B getting ready for flight to JFK.


On February 15, 1970, a Dominicana de Aviación's 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).

Frequent flights are received from Barajas International Airport in Madrid, Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, JFK International Airport in New York City, Miami International Airport in Miami, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (the world's largest passenger hub) in Atlanta, and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.

Las Américas was the hub for Dominicana, APA Dominicana International, and a number of other, smaller airlines. Currently, no airlines use Las Américas a hub.

Las Americas has 6 gates on the main satellite concourse (A), A1 through A6, which have a shared use. In the same concourse there is an American Eagle gate, A7. Other gates facilities are for the flights departing from a parking in the taxiway.

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Airbus A300 of American Airlines in gate A4 at Terminal A getting ready for a early morning flight to JFK.


American Airlines is the major airline operating in Las Americas. It has 3 daily flights to New York (inbound / outbound), 6 flights to San Juan, and 4 to Miami. Delta has one daily flight to / from JFK, a daily flight to/from Atlanta and soon a daily flight from Fort Lauderdale commencing in June 2007, Iberia has a daily flight from Madrid and Spirit Airlines has a daily one from Fort Lauderdale. Continental has during the week 1 daily flight to / from Newark and two on Sundays. US Airways has a flight on Saturday to / from Philadelphia. AirFrance also operates nonstop service to their Paris-Charles De Gaulle (CDG) hub several times each week.


The new Northern terminal

This new terminal is complete and open for Operations. It is a modern terminal within the country itself and one of the best in the Caribbean, featuring free wireless Internet, electric escalators, elevators, jet bridges. It can accommodate 4 747 Jumbo Boeing simultaneously. At a cost of more than a 100 million dollars, this terminal is expected to turn Santo domingo Airport into one of the busiest airports in Latin America.

This new terminal have four gates with boarding bridges, air-conditioning system and maintenance facilities for airplanes. This is the reason why American Airlines does not have any flights from the Terminal A since the Airport build the new Terminal B.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A

Gates A1 through A6 and American Eagle´s gate A7

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Airbus A319 of US Airways arriving from Philadelphia.

Terminal B

Gates B1 through B4

Cargo Carriers


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