Arroyo Barril International Airport
Arroyo Barril International Airport is an airport west of Samaná, the capital of Samaná Province in the Dominican Republic. The airport is on the southern shore of the Samaná Peninsula, facing Samaná Bay to the south. There are tall hills immediately north of the runway. Approach and departure are over the water. The runway length includes a displaced threshold on Runway 11. Airlines and destinations See also *Transport in Dominican Republic *List of airports in Dominican Republic This is a list of airports in the Dominican Republic, grouped by type and sorted by location. Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. See also * Transportation in the Dominican Republic ... References External links OpenStreetMap - Arroyo Barril Airport SkyVector - Arroyo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Samaná (town)
Samaná (old spelling: Xamaná), in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a town and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and is the capital of Samaná Province. It is located on the northern coast of Samaná Bay. The town is an important tourism destination and is the main center for whale-watching tours in the Caribbean region. The town has three municipal districts: El Limón, Las Galeras, and Arroyo Barril. According to the 2012 population and housing census, the municipality has a total population of 108,179. Geography Samaná is located in a small plain close to the coast but, now, most of the town is in the hills that enclose the plain. It is the largest municipality of the province. It has a total area of 412.11 km² (almost 49% of the total area of the province), including the three municipal districts that are part of the municipality. Most of the territory is occupied by the Sierra de Samaná, a short mountain range with steep slopes but no high mou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Punta Cana International Airport
Punta Cana International Airport is a privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport was built with open-air terminals and roofs covered in palm fronds. Grupo Punta Cana built the airport, which was designed by architect Oscar Imbert, and inaugurated it in December 1983. It is owned by Grupo Punta Cana and became the first privately owned international airport in the world. The airport is the busiest in the Dominican Republic, and the second-busiest of the Caribbean, only behind Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. In 2018, more than 7.8 million passengers (arrivals and departures combined) passed through the terminals that year, with almost 50,000 commercial aircraft operations. In 2014, the airport accounted for 60% of all air arrivals in the Dominican Republic. The airport serves 90 airports in 26 countries. History Beginnings The history of aviation in the Punta Cana region started in 1971, when Grupo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Airports In Dominican Republic ...
This is a list of airports in the Dominican Republic, grouped by type and sorted by location. Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. See also * Transportation in the Dominican Republic * List of the busiest airports in Dominican Republic * List of airports by ICAO code: M#MD - Dominican Republic * Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Dominican Republic References * * External links * Lists of airports in the Dominican Republic: *FlyDominicanRepublic.com*Great Circle Mapper**World Aero Data**The Airport Guide* {{Dominican Republic topics Dominican Republic Airports Airports Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Transport In Dominican Republic
Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline transport, pipeline, and space transport, space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and business operations, operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airway (aviation), airways, waterways, canals, and pipeline transport, pipelines, and terminals such as airports, train station, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Servicios Aéreos Profesionales
Servicios Aéreos Profesionales, S.A. (also known as SAP Air or SAP Group) is an airline with its corporate headquarters on the property of La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It operates services in the Caribbean area. History The airline was established in 1981 and is wholly owned by Miguel Patin Hernandez. Services Servicios Aéreos Profesionales operates the following services (as of June 2008): *Domestic charter flights: La Romana, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Samana, Santiago and Bridgetown. *International charter destinations: Fort Lauderdale, Cancún, Montego Bay, Pointe-à-Pitre, Porlamar, St Lucia, San Juan, Bridgetown and Varadero. *Business Aviation: (Aircraft types: Learjet 55, Learjet 35, Learjet 25 and Hawker 125-600) *Crew Transfer Flights *Connections Flights: Connections throughout the Dominican Republic and The Caribbean. *Air Ambulance: Professional Air Ambulance Services as well as medical assistance on board. Available ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Air Inter Island
Líneas Aéreas Inter Islas, S.R.L., " Air Inter Island. Retrieved on January 15, 2012. doing business as Air Inter Island, is a -based air carrier that operates domestics and international flights in the Dominican Republic and . History The airline was founded August 15, 2003 by Martin Maldonado Frómeta. Following the purchase of a first aircraft, a Britten Norman Islander, series BN- ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Gregorio Luperón International Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón) , 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. History The facility opened in 1979 with the purpose of boosting tourism in the North region, it has a runway 3,081 meters long x 46 meters wide, with the capacity to receive wide-body aircraft, including B-747 and A-340. Facilities The m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cibao International Airport
Cibao International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao, links=no) , also known as Santiago Airport, is located in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic's second-largest city. It is the country's third-busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, after Punta Cana International Airport and Las Américas International Airport. Since its inauguration, Cibao International has been projected to become one of busiest airports in terms of passenger traffic in the country. Presently it has become the third-busiest airport in the Dominican Republic, only being surpassed by the airports of Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. The airport served more than 970,000 passengers in 2006. The airport is located southeast of Santiago City's center. The air terminal mainly serves Dominicans residing in the United States, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Puerto Rico, as well as Haitians residing in the Cibao Region. Recently many tourists and missionary workers are u ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Las Américas International Airport
Las Américas International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas, or AILA) 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–transfer, build, operate, and transfer (BOT) six of the country's airports. Las Américas usually receives a wide variety of long-, mid-, and short-haul aircraft. Santo Domingo's other airport, La Isabela International Airport, La Isabela, is much smaller and used by light aircraft only. 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. It is also the busiest cargo hub in the Caribbean and Central America, with 355,000,000 lbs of cargo transported in 2019. History Las Américas Airport op ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aeronaves Dominicanas
Aeronaves Dominicanas or AERODOMCA is an air charter airline established in 1980 with facilities in Samaná El Catey International Airport, and main offices in the La Isabela International Airport, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The airline serves all the cities of the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. The services offered are transfer, freight, overflight, helicopter, advertising, air ambulance, and tour services. Destinations Destinations served by AERODOMCA (as of September 2009): ; * Barahona - Barahona Airport * Samaná - Samaná Airport * La Romana - La Romana Airport * Punta Cana - Punta Cana Airport * Las Terranas - Portillo Airport * Santo Domingo - Las Américas Airport * Santo Domingo - La Isabela Airport * Santiago - Santiago Airport * Puerto Plata - Puerto Plata Airport * Monte Cristi - Monte Cristi Airport ; * Cap-Haïtien ( es, Cabo Haitiano) - Cabo Haitiano Airport ; * Santiago de Cuba - Santiago de Cuba Airport AERODOMCA had the follo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba) at , and third-largest by population, with approximately 10.7 million people (2022 est.), down from 10.8 million in 2020, of whom approximately 3.3 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The official language of the country is Spanish. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola before the arrival of Europeans, dividing it into five chiefdoms. They had constructed an advanced farming and hunting society, and were in the process of becoming an organized civilization. The Taínos also in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Displaced Threshold
A displaced threshold or DTHR is a runway threshold located at a point other than the physical beginning or end of the runway. The portion of the runway behind a displaced threshold may be used for takeoff in either direction and landings from the opposite direction. After landing at the other end, the landing aircraft may use the area behind the displaced threshold for roll out.Aircraft Information Manual 2013, Chapter 2-3-3 h (2) Section 3. Airport Marking Aids and Signs /ref> Most often, the offset threshold is in place to give arriving aircraft clearance over an obstruction, while still allowi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |