Busiest airport in Dominican Republic to get new runway
Published:Thursday | May 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The busiest airport in the Dominican Republic will receive several upgrades, including a new US$30-million runway.
A new terminal at the Punta Cana airport also will be built to handle what the government anticipates will be a seven per cent increase this year in the number of tourists flocking to the popular region.
The airport processes 58 per cent of tourists that visit the Caribbean island, or roughly 100,000 travellers.
It receives 325 weekly flights during the high season, which runs from October to February for Canadian visitors and April to September for Europeans.
The government said in a statement Wednesday that the 10,200-foot-long (3,110-metre-long) runway will be completed by April 2011.
- AP