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Punta Cana Airport
Airport Directory » Dominican Republic » Punta Cana » Punta Cana AirportPunta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) is a in private owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport is built in a traditional Dominican way with open-air depots with their roofs covered in thenar fronds. A figure of scheduled and charter air hose wing to Punta Cana. The airport dealt more than 1 million visitants in 2002, make it the busiest airport in the Dominican Republic. In 2007, Punta Cana had more than 3 million riders. The operators programme to upgrade the airport, including adding another landing track.
Airport enlargement
The Punta Cana's Airport operators have be after an ambitious airport enlargement labor. The labor dwells of a new bigger landing track, enlargement of the being taxi strip, building of a new taxi strip, a new control tower, the installing of the ILS, new oftenness of wireless and the enlargement of the International Terminal.
New landing track be after
Due to increased air traffic, there are architectural plans to build a new landing track in the near hereafter. The landing track shall be built on the northward side of the current landing track and it shall be able to adapt a big aircraft such as the Airbus A380. This task is still in the programming levels, as it is still pending blessing from the authority. If okayed, building will get down at the finish of 2008.
U.S. Preclearance
Plans are underway for a U.S. in-migration and usages preclearance station to be opened at the airport by the finish of summertime 2009.
Traffic and development
Punta Cana's airport is the direct point of entry in figure of getting riders in the Dominican Republic. It is also the fastest turning airport with about a 20% increase in traffic annual, which points that in small than five yr the aircraft moves will duplicate. At the minute the airport counts on 2 international depots, 1 VIP, domestic help and an FBO, a independent run with twelve places.
Jose Marti International Airport , in Havana, Cuba and Punta Cana International Airport are the only 2 airports with connecting voyages to Russia. It does Punta Cana's airport the only Latin American airport with on a regular basis scheduled direct voyages to both Russia and the United States.
Punta Cana Group (Punta Cana's Airport proprietors) are talking about opening direct routes to the United Arab Emirates and to China in Asia sometime by 2008. Punta Cana International Airport shall be the 1st Caribbean airport to have direct voyages to Asia.
In the Caribbean, Punta Cana International Airport is excelled only by Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, in San Juan, Puerto Rico and by Cancun International Airport in Cancun that are the 1st and the 2nd airports severally.
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