# Gregorio Luperón International Airport

Gregorio Luperón International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Gregorio Luperón) (IATA: POP, ICAO: MDPP), also known as Puerto Plata Airport, is located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.The airport is named after General Gregorio Luperón, a Dominican military and state leader. Capable of handling planes of all sizes, Puerto Plata Airport has benefited from being in an area with many beaches, which are popular among charter airline passengers. The popularity of the city where it is located has also drawn a number of regularly scheduled passenger airlines over the years.
With over 704,000 passagers, It is the Dominican Republic's fourth busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, after Punta Cana, Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros. American Airlines is the primary international operator.

## History

The facility opened in 1979 with the purpose of boosting tourism in the North region, it has a runway 3,081 meters long x 46 meters wide, with the capacity to receive wide-body aircraft, including B-747 and A-340.

## Facilities

The main terminal building has 10 gates: 5 with boarding bridges on the satellite concourse, and 2 boarding bridges and 3 without in the frontal concourse. The terminal has been remodeled with new floors, escalators, immigration hall, departure hall and duty-free areas along with restaurants. The terminal can support 4 Boeing 747-400s simultaneously after renovations to the airport made in 2013/14.

## Airlines and destinations
### Passenger

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Air Canada Rouge | Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| Air Transat | Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Halifax, Ottawa, Québec City |
| American Airlines | Miami Seasonal: Charlotte |
| Condor | Frankfurt |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta |
| Edelweiss Air | Zurich |
| Frontier Airlines | San Juan (begins June 19, 2025) |
| InterCaribbean Airways | Seasonal: Providenciales |
| JetBlue | New York–JFK Seasonal: Boston |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Charter: Katowice Seasonal charter: Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin |
| Nordwind Airlines | Charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo |
| Sunwing Airlines | Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Halifax, Moncton, Ottawa, Québec City, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg |
| TUI fly Nordic | Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
| United Airlines | Newark |
| WestJet | Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson |

### Cargo

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Amerijet | Miami, Santiago de los Caballeros |
| DHL Aviation | Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo–Las Américas |
| IBC Airways | Miami |

#### Notes

* ^1 Condor's flight from Puerto Plata to Frankfurt operates via Santo Domingo, however, the flight from Frankfurt to Puerto Plata is nonstop.

## Statistics

Top 10 Busiest Routes from Puerto Plata (2024) :
| Rank | City | Passengers | Carriers |
| 1 | Miami | 158,558 | American Airlines |
| 2 | Toronto-Pearson | 156,855 | Air Canada Rouge, Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines, WestJet |
| 3 | New York–JFK | 146,921 | JetBlue |
| 4 | Montreal-Trudeau | 125,549 | Air Canada Rouge, Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines |
| 5 | Newark | 57,285 | United Airlines |
| 6 | Charlotte | 43,183 | American Airlines |
| 7 | Quebec City | 25,195 | Air Transant, Sunwing Airlines |
| 8 | Frankfurt | 20,853 | Condor |
| 9 | Ottawa | 13,650 | Air Transat, Sunwing Airlines |
| 10 | Varsovia | 13,650 | LOT Polish Airlines |

## Incidents

* On February 6, 1996, Birgenair Flight 301 was bound for Frankfurt, Germany, but crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata Airport into the Atlantic Ocean 26 kilometres off-shore, killing all 176 passengers and 13 crew members aboard, among them were 164 Germans. It was discovered later that one of the air speed indicators of the Boeing 757-200 was not working properly, confusing the pilots about whether the aircraft's speed was too fast or too slow.