DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The operator of Las Americas International Airport (SDQ), Vinci Airports – Aerodom was fined US$5 million for the nine-hour blackout that affected airport operations on Sunday, 21 September 2025. An electricity glitch caused the power outage at the main terminal, affecting arrival and departure operations from 9:18 am to around 6 pm when power was fully restored. Around 50 flights were impacted.

The reaction comes after the Dominican Airport Commission met in an extraordinary session to review the technical report on the event, which concluded, preliminarily, that the failure was caused by the collapse of a medium-voltage component in the north terminal, combined with the unavailability of the backup electrical system, which significantly affected airport operations. As part of the measures adopted, the Commission decided that Aerodom must pay the Dominican State a...