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La Isabela — Dr. Joaquín Balaguer International Airport

Santo Domingo's second airport, at El Higüero about 10 km northwest of the city centre — the country's hub for regional Caribbean services on small aircraft.

Serves
Santo Domingo (secondary airport)
Operator
AERODOM (VINCI Airports)
Runway
1 — 1,659 m, for small aircraft (up to ATR-72 class)
Opened
23 February 2006 — replaced the old Herrera airport

Statistics

Flights & passengers

49,686
Passengers 2024 (JAC)
≈41–57k
Passengers 2025 — reported range; exact JAC figure not yet published
4,221
Flights 2024 (JAC) — more than LRM or AZS, on small aircraft
≈12
Average flights/day (derived from 2024)

Airlines

Airlines serving JBQ

Scheduled services, published schedules as of November 2026. Air Century, based here, flies to Aruba, Cartagena, Curaçao, Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Sint Maarten (Bonaire seasonal).

Air CenturySunrise Airways (status unconfirmed — see note)

Good to know

Notes

Air Century carried 41,586 passengers here in 2024 — 84% of the airport's traffic (JAC). Havana became JBQ's busiest route that year (12,461 passengers) as the Port-au-Prince market collapsed amid Haiti's security crisis; JBQ's passengers fell 42% in 2024, the steepest decline in the country.

Sunrise Airways is still shown in published lists for its Port-au-Prince route, but that market collapsed in 2024 and whether Sunrise still operates scheduled service from JBQ in late 2026 could not be confirmed — we mark it unconfirmed rather than present it as settled.

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.