Traffic for July and August at Las Americas International Airport, the leading airport serving Santo Domingo and nearby Boca Chica and Juan Dolio areas, is expected to increase to 289,031 air arrivals for the peak two summer months. This would be a 6% hike over traffic in July and August 2008 that was 272, 626.
Aerodom spokesperson Yolanda Manan attributes the increase to new airline frequencies and to the start of the Taca flight to Lima, Peru and the Pawa flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Santo Domingo is the Caribbean city with connections to the most countries. From the Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) one can fly non-stop on scheduled airlines to the US, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Germany, Spain, France. Puerto Rico, Antigua, Aruba, Martinica, Cuba, Guadaloupe, Haiti, and St. Martin.
There are direct connections to the cities of Atlanta (Delta), Boston, Miami, New York (American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue), Newark (Continental), Fort Lauderdale (Spirit, JetBlue), Orlando (JetBlue), Philadelphia (US Airways). In Central America and the Caribbean, also Bogota (Avianca), Caracas (Aserca), Lima (Taca), Panama (Copa), San Jose (Condor, Taca). To Europe, there are flights to Frankfurt (Condor), Madrid (Air Europa, Iberia), Paris (Air France). And in the Caribbean, the cities with non-stop direct services service to Las Americas are Aguadilla and Ponce (Pawa), Antigua (Liat), Aruba and Curacao (Aserca), Fort de France (Air Caraibes, Air France), Havana (Cubana), Point-a-Pitre (Air France), Port-au-Prince (Air Caraibes), St. Martin (Insel Air, Dutch Antilles Express), San Juan (American, American Eagle, JetBlue, Pawa), Santiago de Cuba (Aerocaribbean).