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SDQ · MDSD

Las Américas International Airport

Santo Domingo's main gateway since 1959 — the Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez airport at Punta Caucedo, about 20 km east of the capital, with the longest runway in the country.

Serves
Santo Domingo and the capital region
Operator
AERODOM (VINCI Airports)
Runway
1 — 3,353 m, the country's longest
Opened
1959

Statistics

Flights & passengers

5,534,893
Passengers 2024 (JAC)
5,212,378
Passengers 2025 (JAC)
43,258
Flights 2024 (JAC)
≈119
Average flights/day (derived from 2024)

Airlines

Airlines serving SDQ

Scheduled and regular charter services, published schedules as of November 2026. Cargo carriers: Amerijet International and UPS Airlines.

AeroméxicoAeroméxico ConnectAir Canada (seasonal, from 11 Dec 2026)Air CaraïbesAir EuropaAmerican AirlinesArajetAviancaCondorCopa AirlinesDelta Air LinesFrontier AirlinesIberiaInterCaribbean AirwaysJetBlueLASER AirlinesSky High DominicanaSunrise AirwaysUnited AirlinesWingoWorld2Fly

Good to know

Notes

SDQ is the country's second-busiest airport and its cargo gateway — described as the busiest cargo hub in the Caribbean and Central America. A new terminal is under construction (begun June 2025, reported at about US$250 million, expected around end-2028).

Busiest airline in 2024: JetBlue, with 1,370,209 passengers — the highest single-airline total at any Dominican airport that year (JAC). Busiest route in 2025: New York–JFK, with 973,180 passengers.

Announced but not yet operating when this page was compiled: ITA Airways (seasonal Rome service from 30 November 2026) and Breeze Airways (Tampa, from 18 June 2027). Spirit Airlines, which carried 246,533 passengers here in 2024, no longer appears in published schedules.

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