Las Américas International Airport
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 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Santo Domingo | ||||||||||
| Location | Punta Caucedo, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Hub for |
| ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 58 ft / 18 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°25′46″N 069°40′08″W | ||||||||||
| Website | aeropuertolasamericas.com | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
MDSD Location of airport in Dominican Republic | |||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Statistics (2023) | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
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. It is also the busiest cargo hub in the Caribbean and Central America, with 355,000,000 lbs of cargo transported in 2019.