Construir?n aeropuerto internacional en Constanza

PJT

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Build an airport???? Not Likely.

This is only a feasibility study for an airport. Somebody has a dream of air freighting produce direct from Constanza to U.S., P.R., and Caribbean.

This is more of an agenda by someone to pocket government funds to do the study, rather than build an airport. This concept will go the same way as the railroad from Sto.Dgo to Santiago.

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KateP

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Where in Contanza do they think they'll put the thing? On top of one of the mountains? If the airstrip I saw is the one they thinking of using, it's right beside the main street heading into the town, about 15-20m wide by I don't know how long but if they build an INTERNATIONAL airport on that spot... bueno... I can just imagine the headlines everytime a plane runs over a car or a worker...
 

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KateP said:
Where in Contanza do they think they'll put the thing? On top of one of the mountains? If the airstrip I saw is the one they thinking of using, it's right beside the main street heading into the town, about 15-20m wide by I don't know how long but if they build an INTERNATIONAL airport on that spot... bueno... I can just imagine the headlines everytime a plane runs over a car or a worker...

Not just that, but in December, January, and February (more so in Jan than any other months) the Constanza Valley experiences periodic freezes, with water actually freezing.

Imagine all the planes slipping around with all that black ice!
 

Dolores1

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The runway would go where the old one is. Apparently in the past produce was shipped out by air. A national competitiveness commission was in Constanza yesterday to look into this.
 
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And that person is Andres Vanderhorst!!!
It's those damned Dutch-Dominicans again! ;)

It might actually make sense, especially in the market for tropical "quick-perishables" or flowers.
 

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Excellent!!!

And by the way can I get Mr Vanderhort's phone number, cuz my family lives in Guachupita and they need an airport to move out of the country in their Bizz Jet, during those damn "Huelgas"...

They just opened an Int'l Airport in Santiago. It was suppose to help in the exportation of products from Cibao's Valley to the U.S. Then what's the point??? If they already have what they needed. Also, can't the perishable flowers resist the trip from Constanza to Santiago by road???

It doesn't surprise me...
I've seen worse things:

1) Aeropuerto Mar?a Montez - Flights per Day ??
2) Aeropuerto La Isabela - Open?
3) Aeropuerto de Saman? - Is it real?

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Airport In Constanza = Waste Of Money

Flakko said:
Excellent!!!

And by the way can I get Mr Vanderhort's phone number, cuz my family lives in Guachupita and they need an airport to move out of the country in their Bizz Jet, during those damn "Huelgas"...

They just opened an Int'l Airport in Santiago. It was suppose to help in the exportation of products from Cibao's Valley to the U.S. Then what's the point??? If they already have what they needed. Also, can't the perishable flowers resist the trip from Constanza to Santiago by road???

It doesn't surprise me...
I've seen worse things:

1) Aeropuerto Mar?a Montez - Flights per Day ??
2) Aeropuerto La Isabela - Open?
3) Aeropuerto de Saman? - Is it real?

Flakko

THE AIRPORT IN CONSTANAZA WILL DO NO GOOD EXCEPT FOR WASTE MONEY. THEY JUST OPENED STI AND STI IS DOING MUCH MORE BETTER THAN EXPECTED. WHY WILL THEY NEED SOMETHING SO CLOSE BY. THEY HAVE MORE THAN 4 AIRPORTS. WHAT ABOUT IF THE MONEY THAT IS GOING TO BE WASTED IN THAT AIRPORT IS GIVEN TO THE POOR PEOPLE DOES NOT THAT SOUND MUCH BETTER? SOME PLACE LIKE NEIBA, BARAHONA, DAJABON ETC WILL BE MUCH BETTER SINCE IT IS FARTHER AWAY FROM EXSITING AIRPORTS EVENTHOUGH IT MIGHT NOT SOUND GOOD TO THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. NEXT THING WE KNOW WE HAVE PLANES LANDING AND TAKING OFF FROM PICO DUARTE
 

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apdomini100max said:
THE AIRPORT IN CONSTANAZA WILL DO NO GOOD EXCEPT FOR WASTE MONEY. THEY JUST OPENED STI AND STI IS DOING MUCH MORE BETTER THAN EXPECTED. WHY WILL THEY NEED SOMETHING SO CLOSE BY. THEY HAVE MORE THAN 4 AIRPORTS. WHAT ABOUT IF THE MONEY THAT IS GOING TO BE WASTED IN THAT AIRPORT IS GIVEN TO THE POOR PEOPLE DOES NOT THAT SOUND MUCH BETTER? SOME PLACE LIKE NEIBA, BARAHONA, DAJABON ETC WILL BE MUCH BETTER SINCE IT IS FARTHER AWAY FROM EXSITING AIRPORTS EVENTHOUGH IT MIGHT NOT SOUND GOOD TO THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. NEXT THING WE KNOW WE HAVE PLANES LANDING AND TAKING OFF FROM PICO DUARTE

I agree with you, this country had so many airports.
 

Dolores1

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This will not be for servicing tourists, more focused on transporting produce out of Constanza. Let me find out more about it and will let readers know what these people have in mind. The people who are requesting it are the farm producers of Constanza that say that in the past their airport worked and that was how they shipped their produce out.
 

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WHAT ABOUT IF THE MONEY THAT IS GOING TO BE WASTED IN THAT AIRPORT IS GIVEN TO THE POOR PEOPLE DOES NOT THAT SOUND MUCH BETTER?
Um, I don't think we are a communist or socialist nation to start with and giving money straight out to the poor won't make them any better.

After all, if all those folks who receive remittances from abroad would have put some aside in a bank account, they would have had quite a nice nest egg to rely upon when the retirement years come upon them, but I bet an extreme minority do such thing. Most, simply spend spend spend!

Now, widening the road that connects Constanza with San Jose de Ocoa and the other road that takes it to Autopista Duarte would be more benefitial to the local economy than an airport.

SOME PLACE LIKE NEIBA, BARAHONA, DAJABON ETC WILL BE MUCH BETTER SINCE IT IS FARTHER AWAY FROM EXSITING AIRPORTS EVENTHOUGH IT MIGHT NOT SOUND GOOD TO THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Barahona already has an airport and its pretty dead! I don't know what's wrong with the south. They have the most beautiful stretch of coastline in the Caribbean, the most spectacular contrast between desert and rainforests, mountains and plains, and some of the most hospitable and nicest people on earth and yet, tourism is not booming, at least not like elsewhere in the country. The airport there was suppose to start the boom, but not much action yet.

And what do you mean with the US department of Agriculture? I just don't see the point or message there.

NEXT THING WE KNOW WE HAVE PLANES LANDING AND TAKING OFF FROM PICO DUARTE
Now there is a business idea! Helicopter tours of the Cordillera Central and encricling the Pico Duarte and the Pico Pelona. That area is spectacular enough by land, imagine how much more spectacular it is by air!
 

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santobonao said:
I agree with you, this country had so many airports.
We do have alot of airports.

There are 4 main ones, but if you count all of the other smaller municipal airports and landing strips, the number amounts to the vicinity of 30!!
 

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Nal0whs said:
Not just that, but in December, January, and February (more so in Jan than any other months) the Constanza Valley experiences periodic freezes, with water actually freezing.

Imagine all the planes slipping around with all that black ice!
hehehe, what a weird idea, putting an airport in a cold climate:) You crack me up. Do you really believe what you type?
 

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Escott said:
hehehe, what a weird idea, putting an airport in a cold climate:) You crack me up. Do you really believe what you type?
When was the last time you witness rock salt being used during those nights and morning when the temperature drops below freezing in those altitudes?

I have never seen such thing, though the water freezes and patches of black ice forms on certain wet surfaces.

Despite the fact that secondary roads are bad everywhere here, do you ever wonder why those mountain roads in particular become so bad so fast after they are paved?

The formation of ice and the melting down causes the pavement to weakened, add to that all the crazy drivers and overloaded trucks and vans and voila, desintegrated road, once again!

Oh yeah, and the lack of maintanence will not help.
 

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BRX Barahona Airpot as a HUB?

Why no one has considered to use the Maria Montez airport as a hub? why not it's no appropriate or equipped properly.