Cibao International Airport

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Cibao International Airport
IATA: STI - ICAO: MDST
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Cibao Corporation
Serves Santiago de los Caballeros
Elevation AMSL 565 ft (172 m)
Coordinates 19°24′21.93″N, 070°36′16.88″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 8,595 2,620 Asphalt

Cibao International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao) (IATA: STI, ICAO: MDST) is an international airport in Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican Republic's second largest city, in the Cibao region. It has a modern terminal with some of the most advanced airport facilities. It serves mostly Dominicans living in the United States and other Caribbean islands like Cuba, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Puerto Rico and Panama.

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[edit] Passenger Terminal

Cibao Airport has a main terminal with 6 gates (B1-B6), it has 3 gates with boarding bridge (B4-B6), and the other 3 gates are without it. This airport has a medium height runway, 2,620 m, but it can support a Boeing 747-400 and also a Boeing 777-200 landing in there. They're planing to expand the airport, with more gates and baggages claims, also they're thinking to add a taxiway.

This airport also has an ILS or Ilumination Landing System created to facilitate the landings of the airplanes in this airport. Las Americas International Airport and Cibao International Airport are the uniques airports in the Dominican Republic using the ILS.

American is the mayor airline operating in cibao airport. In the 2005's summer it had 5 daily flights to JFK, 2 daily flights to MIA and 2 daily to SJU. In the 2007's summer it will have 3 to JFK, 2 to MIA and one to SJU for now.

JetBlue is an other important airline in Cibao airport, the most of the time it has only one daily flight to JFK but seasonal it adds two more flights to this airport. JetBlue is also interested to fly to FLL, but it is not sure.

Continental Airlines operates flights between Santiago and Newark. This airline has brought to Santiago its enormous greater Boeing 767-400 and still its Boeing 777-200 like answer to the enormous amount of passengers who go towards the city of New York. New York is the main destination from Cibao Airport, as much so it has had up to 9 daily flights between these cities. And if you think that it is little, this airport is only 5 years old and in addition is the unique one in Dominican Republic in having such amount of flights to New York city.

[edit] Cargo Terminal

Cibao Airport has a cargo terminal with 4 gates for cargo carriers like Amerijet, Cargo Logistic... The cargo carriers on Cibao Airport have regular flights from Santiago to the USA and other caribbean islands like St. Maarten, The Bahamas...

[edit] Flights

Cibao Airport Main Terminal. American A300 takingoff behind it.
Cibao Airport Main Terminal. American A300 takingoff behind it.
Continental B777-200 at exit E-2 leaving the main terminal for flight to EWR.
Continental B777-200 at exit E-2 leaving the main terminal for flight to EWR.

In the first year of operation (2002) the Cibao Airport had 5 to 6 daily flights, now (2007) it has from 17 to 25 daily flights to the USA, the Caribbean and Central America. It doesn't have flights to Europe or Canada yet but it will serves in the near future.

In 2005 this airport recived an Antonov AN-124 from Spain for military activity in the frontier with Haiti. It stayed 2 days in Santiago, after flew back to Spain.

In the 2006, Air Europa, Dominican investors and the Government, joined a total of $10 million dollars like capital to form the airline so needed by the country, which will be called Air Dominicana, that will begin its operations in April of the 2008. According to some information, the investors are Aerodom, Groupo Punta Cana, Popi Bermúdez and others more. Main hubs of this awaited airline will be Las Americas International Airport, Cibao International Airport and Punta Cana International Airport.

[edit] Discontinued airlines

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Domestic carriers

[edit] Cargo carriers

[edit] Gallery

Flight back to JFK AA1774

Getting ready for dep. to MIA in flight AA738

Flight from JFK

Takeoff, departing to JFK AA1774

Gates B1,B2,B3 Cibao Intl

Control tower Cibao Airport

Getting ready for flight BQ808 to JFK

Getting ready for departure to JFK on gate B4

Gates B4,B5,B6 with boarding bridge. American at gate B1

Departing to JFK at 9:15am AA1774

Gates B6 and B5 American getting readdy for departure to MIA and JFK

B757-200 At gate B4. inaugural flight for Delta on STI

Inside the terminal, second floor for departures

[edit] Millitary

Millitary helicopter at Cibao International. Bihind it an American Eagle ATR-72 arriving from SJU.
Millitary helicopter at Cibao International. Bihind it an American Eagle ATR-72 arriving from SJU.

This airport also serves as air base for Santiago. Here the airplanes are resupplied battle when dates for DR acts in importants as March 30 with the battle of the 30 of March. The military activity in this airport very is not pronounced since this one is mainly public.

[edit] Incidents

The Cibao International Airport does not have fatal incidents or any accidents, but it haved some little problems with US carriers.

  • August 31, 2005: flight AA1774 of American Airlines to JFK, had an engine problem and had to return to the airport. The Captain said that they smelled smoke in the cabine. No injoures
  • September 2006, flight AA2054 of American Airlines to JFK. This flight had schedule departure at 04:11pm, but American had to delay this flight to 07:30am (next day), just because a fort wind dragged an object until the window of the airplane, breaking it and in this way, delaying the flight.

[edit] See also

AIRPORTS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

Those Airports and Cibao International are the 9 most importants Airports in The Dominican Republic.

DESTINATIONS MAP

Cibao International Airport destinations map

[edit] External links

  • Videos of aircraft at STI from [[4]]
    • AA834 departing to JFK from gate B1. American B738 at gate B2, Delta B763 at gate B4 and American A300 at gate B5.: [[5]]
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