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 Punta Cana is a resort town in the easternmost region of the Dominican Republic. It is part of the Veron–Punta Cana municipal district, in the Higüey municipality of La Altagracia Province. According to the 2010 census, this district had a p ...

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and Santiago de los Caballeros airports. The airport is named after General

Gregorio Luperón Gregorio Luperón (September 8, 1839 – May 21, 1897) was a Dominican president, military general, businessman, liberal politician, freemason, and Statesman who was one of the leaders in the Restoration of the Dominican Republic after the Spani ...

, 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

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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 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

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s simultaneously after renovations to the airport made in 2013/14.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

;Notes * Condor's flight from Puerto Plata to Frankfurt flies via Santo Domingo, however, the flight from Frankfurt to Puerto Plata is nonstop.

Statistics

Incidents

*On February 6, 1996,

Birgenair Flight 301 Birgenair Flight 301 was a flight chartered by Turkish-managed Birgenair partner Alas Nacionales from Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic to Frankfurt, Germany, via Gander, Canada, and Berlin, Germany. On February 6, 1996, the 757-200 o ...

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

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s of the

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was not working properly, confusing the pilots about whether the aircraft's speed was too fast or too slow.

References

External links

OpenStreetMap – Puerto Plata
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