2005News

Number of air passengers up

The Civil Aviation Department reports that 3,025,635 passengers arrived in and departed from the DR on regular flights during the first semester of this year, as reported by Diario Libre. Las America Airport was the busiest terminal with 1,322,817 of those passengers and 12,459 flights. According to the statistics office of the Civil Aviation Department, the second busiest terminal was Punta Cana International Airport, with 863,900 passengers in 6,543 flights. Most of these passengers were tourists from Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, US, Asia, and South America. Other international terminals in the country are the Gregorio Luperon International Airport in Puerto Plata, the Cibao Airport in Santiago, the La Romana International Airport and Herrera in Santo Domingo.