2015 Travel News ArchiveTravel

Punta Cana leads in airport arrivals in first quarter

Punta Cana International Airport has reported 890,205 passenger arrivals, for 66.2% of all air arrivals to the Dominican Republic from January to March 2015. Airport statistics show that 334,944 of them reside in the United States, 237,274 in Canada, 61,688 in France, 51,693 in Germany, 31,624 in Argentina and 27,442 in Brazil.

Las Americas International Airport, the main airport for the capital city of Santo Domingo, received 201,711 passengers, for 15% of the total. Next was Puerto Plata’s Gregorio Luperon International Airport with 10.8%. Santiago reported arrivals for 3.4% of the total, La Romana for 2.8% and between La Isabela and El Catey (Samana) there were 1.8% arrivals.

Punta Cana showed 48,430 more arrivals, Las Americas had 15,680 more, Santiago’s El Cibao had 7,379 and Puerto Plata 6,870.