The Civil Aviation Board (JAC) reported that so far this year there have been 352,386 more arrivals from January to June 2018. Luis Ernesto Camilo, director general of the JAC, said this was an increase of 4.9% over the same period in 2017. Some 7,571,107 passengers have come through the seven Dominican international airports during the first half of the year.
The numbers show that 6,758,318 passengers, or 89% used regular flights and 812,789 arrived on charter flights, for 7%.
Punta Cana International Airport handled the most passengers at 4,226,864 followed by Las Américas International Airport with 1,824,606. This was 55.83% of the total air arrivals. Together, the airports managed 80% of all air arrivals.
JetBlue Airways transported the most passengers, with 1,235,250. American Airlines was second with 810,663.
JAC reported airlines served 594 frequencies. The routes with the most passenger traffic were New York’s John F. Kennedy International to Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport (JFK to SDQ) with 456,184 passengers and New York to Santiago’s Cibao International Airport (JFK to STI) with 452,769 passengers.
JAC reported there were 54,441 flights carried out from January to June 2018, this is 916 more flights than for the same period in 2017.
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JAC
17 July 2018
