Las Américas International Airport
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Las Américas International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas, or AILA) (IATA: SDQ, ICAO: MDSD) is an international airport located in Punta Caucedo, near Santo Domingo and Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic. The airport is run by Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (AERODOM), a private corporation based in the Dominican Republic, under a 25-year concession to build, operate, and transfer (BOT) six of the country's airports. Las Américas usually receives a wide variety of long-, mid-, and short-haul aircraft. Santo Domingo's other airport, La Isabela, is much smaller and used by smaller aircraft only.
Las Américas International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. | ||||||||||
Serves | Santo Domingo | ||||||||||
Location | Punta Caucedo, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 58 ft / 18 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 18°25′46″N 069°40′08″W | ||||||||||
Website | aeropuertolasamericas.com | ||||||||||
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The airport is the second-busiest in the country, after Punta Cana International Airport, and one of the largest in the Caribbean, handling 3.5 million passengers in 2015.[1] It is also the busiest cargo hub in the Caribbean and Central America, with 355,000,000 lbs of cargo transported in 2019.