El Siglo publishes a report on the advances of the international airport going up in Batey Cacata, La Romana. Airport administrator Luis Emilio Rodríguez Amiama says that the construction is 60% finished. He says they are working so that the first flights can arrive in mid December of this year. The Central Romana is the owner of the new airport that is going up at a cost of US$55 million. A Category 8 airport, it will have a runway of 3,950 meters by 45 meters wide. The terminal, built in the form of a sugar mill, will have an area of 7,500 square meters. The airport is expected to be used by tourists flying in to Casa de Campo, Dominicus-Bayahibe and Punta Cana resort areas, as well as residents in the cities of San Pedro de Macorís, La Romana and Higuey. Rodríguez says that the airport will have capacity to simultaneously handle two incoming flights, and two outgoing flights. (4 July 2000)
