Punta Cana International Airport
Punta Cana Airport Aeropuerto de Punta Cana | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private-owned, Public-use | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Puntacana Resort and Club Grupo Puntacana | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Punta Cana, Higüey, Bávaro | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Punta Cana in La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 17 December 1983 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating base for | Arajet | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 40 ft / 12.2 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°34′00″N 68°21′07″W / 18.56667°N 68.35194°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | puntacanainternationalairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Punta Cana 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 Puntacana built the airport, which was designed by architect Oscar Imbert, and inaugurated it in December 1983. It is owned by Grupo Puntacana and became the first privately owned international airport in the world.
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. In 2023, the airport accounted for 60% of all air arrivals in the Dominican Republic. The airport serves 90 airports in 26 countries.