Gregorio Luperón International Airport
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| Gregorio Luperón International Airport | |||
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| IATA: POP - ICAO: MDPP | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Joint (Civil and Military) | ||
| Operator | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom) | ||
| Serves | San Felipe de Puerto Plata | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 15 ft (5 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 08/26 | 10,108 | 3,081 | Asphalt |
Gregorio Luperón International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón) (IATA: POP, ICAO: MDPP), also known as Puerto Plata Airport, is located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. It is that Caribbean nation's second largest airport, after Las Americas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Dominican Republic near Santo Domingo. Puerto Plata's IATA Airport Code is POP.
The airport is named after General Gregorio Luperón 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 charter airline passengers. The popularity of the city where it is located at has also drawn a number of regularly scheduled passenger airlines over the years.
On February 6, 1996 a Boeing 757 of Turkish charter airline Birgenair, which had just taken off, crashed off the Puerto Plata coast, killing all 189 people on board. All passengers were of German nationality.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Aeropostal (Caracas, Curacao)
- Air Canada (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Air Plus Comet (Madrid)
- Air Transat (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Quebec City, St. John's, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver, Winnipeg)
- Air Turks and Caicos (Grand Turk, Providenciales)
- American Airlines (Miami, New York-JFK [seasonal])
- American Eagle operated by Executive Air (San Juan)
- Arkefly (Amsterdam)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Belair (Zurich)
- Blue Panorama Airlines (Milan-Malpensa)
- CanJet (Halifax)[1]
- Charter Air (Warsaw)
- Condor Airlines (Frankfurt)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Edelweiss Air (Zurich)
- EuroAtlantic Airways (Lisbon)
- Excel Airways (Birmingham (UK), London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK))
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- First Choice Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK))
- Iberworld (Madrid)
- Jetairfly (Brussels)
- LTU International (Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Munich)
- Martinair (Amsterdam, Punta Cana)
- Monarch Airlines (London-Gatwick)
- MyTravel Airways (Birmingham (UK), Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK), Newcastle)
- Novair (Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- SkyKing Turks and Caicos Airways (Grand Turk, Providenciales)
- Skyservice (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Kitchener, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)
- Sunwing Airlines (Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Birmingham (UK), London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK), Newcastle)
- Thomsonfly (Belfast-International, Doncaster/Sheffield, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK))
- USA 3000 Airlines (Milwaukee)
- Vacation Express (Orlando-Sanford)
- Westjet (Halifax, Saskatoon, Toronto-Pearson)
- Zoom Airlines (Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City)
 A330-300 at gate 6 in POP |
