Punta Cana International Airport
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Punta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) is a
privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern
Dominican Republic. The airport is built in a traditional
Dominican style with open-air terminals with their roofs covered
in palm fronds. Grupo Punta Cana built the Punta Cana
International Airport and inaugurated it in 1984. It became the
first privately owned international airport in the world. A number
of scheduled and charter airlines fly to Punta Cana.
Currently more than 6.3 million passengers (arrivals and
departures combined) pass through the terminals, moved by almost
60,000 commercial aircraft operations. The operators of the
airport, Corporación Aeroportuaria del Este, S.A. (a private
corporation run by Puntacana Resort and Club), expanded the
facility in November 2011 with a new runway and Air Traffic
Control tower designed to support the robust growth of travel to
the region.
The airport has five terminals: International Terminals A and B
for international passenger travel; FBO Terminal, located west of
terminal B, for executive general aviation, both national and
international; National Terminal, located east of the FBO
terminal, for national charter and general aviation; VIP Terminal,
Located east of Terminal A, a private terminal including an
aircraft parking apron. Punta Cana International Airport serves 96
cities in 28 countries. Terminal B was built to hold larger
aircraft like the Airbus A380 along with 7 airbridges, one being
for the Airbus A380.
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