Punta Cana International Airport

Punta Cana International Airport

*Aeropuerto Internacional Punta Cana*
Punta Cana International Airport; Aeropuerto Internacional Punta Cana
	IATA: PUJ; ICAO: MDPC;
Summary
Airport type	Private-owned, Public-use
Owner/Operator	Punta Cana Resort and Club/Grupo Punta Cana
Serves	Punta Cana, Higüey, Bávaro
Location	Punta Cana in La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic
Opened	17 December 1983
Elevation AMSL	40 ft / 12.2 m
Coordinates	18°34′00″N 68°21′07″W / 18.56667°N 68.35194°W
Website	www.puntacanainternationalairport.com
Map
	PUJ/MDPC Location of airport in Dominican Republic
Runways
Statistics (2023)
Total passengers
Total passengers	9,162,782
Aircraft operations	55,100
	Source: Banco Central República Dominicana; 1 Runway 08/26 Main runway.; 2 Runway 09/27 back up runway.

Punta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) is a privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport was built with open-air terminals and roofs covered in palm fronds. Grupo Punta Cana built the airport, which was designed by architect Oscar Imbert, and inaugurated it in December 1983.^[1] It is owned by Grupo Punta Cana and became the first privately owned international airport in the world.^[2]

The airport is the busiest in the Dominican Republic, and the second-busiest of the Caribbean, only behind Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. In 2022, more than 8.3 million passengers (arrivals and departures combined) passed through the terminals that year, with almost 50,000 commercial aircraft operations.^[3]^[4] In 2023, the airport accounted for 60% of all air arrivals in the Dominican Republic.^[5] The airport serves 90 airports in 26 countries.^[6]

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^ "Punta Cana Airport Information". Puntacanainternationalairport.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014.
^ Diario, Listin (27 December 2022). "Aeropuerto Internacional de Punta Cana logra récord de 8 millones de pasajeros en un año". listindiario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ Externa, Fuente (28 February 2023). "Dominican Republic broke record in flight operations in 2022". DMK Abogados. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ "Punta Cana International Airport Official Website". PuntaCanaInternationalAirport.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

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[:1-3] "Punta Cana Airport Information". Puntacanainternationalairport.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014.

[4] Diario, Listin (27 December 2022). "Aeropuerto Internacional de Punta Cana logra récord de 8 millones de pasajeros en un año". listindiario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 May 2023.

[5] Externa, Fuente (28 February 2023). "Dominican Republic broke record in flight operations in 2022". DMK Abogados. Retrieved 31 May 2023.

[6] "Punta Cana International Airport Official Website". PuntaCanaInternationalAirport.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

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