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El Catey — Profesor Juan Bosch International Airport

The Samaná peninsula's own airport, at El Catey near Sánchez — about 30 minutes from Las Terrenas — built for the province's tourism and its whale season.

Serves
Samaná province — Las Terrenas, Las Galeras, Samaná town
Operator
AERODOM (VINCI Airports)
Runway
1 — 3,000 m, built for the Boeing 747
Opened
6 November 2006

Statistics

Flights & passengers

101,555
Passengers 2024 (JAC)
≈95,000
Passengers 2025 — about 93,000–98,000 (reported); exact JAC figure not yet published
852
Flights 2024 (JAC)
≈2
Average flights/day (derived from 2024) — highly seasonal

Airlines

Airlines serving AZS

Scheduled and regular charter services, published schedules as of November 2026. Nearly all service is in the winter season.

Air Canada (seasonal)Air Canada Rouge (seasonal)Air CaraïbesAir TransatIberojet (seasonal charter)WestJet

Good to know

Notes

Few airports anywhere are this seasonal: in 2024, March brought 14,353 passengers and June only 3,883 (JAC) — in low season, many days have no scheduled flight at all. Canada alone (Montreal + Toronto) was 87% of 2024 traffic, and Air Transat is the dominant carrier.

The airport's peak matches Samaná's humpback-whale season (mid-January to end of March). Las Terrenas' old airfield, El Portillo, closed in 2012 — El Catey is the way in. See the Samaná destination guide in the network.

Sources: Junta de Aviación Civil (JAC), Statistical Report of Commercial Air Transport 2024 and 2025 summary coverage; AERODOM/VINCI Airports; published airline schedules, November 2026. Full source notes in this project's SOURCES.md.