Punta Cana International Airport

Punta Cana International Airport is the busiest airport in the Caribbean by international passenger traffic and one of the most internationally connected leisure-tourism airports in the Americas, serving 64 airlines on 223 routes to 126 nonstop destinations. Located 16 km (10 mi) north of the Punta Cana resort zone on the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic at just 47 ft (14 m) of elevation, PUJ is also the largest privately owned international airport in the world — built and operated by Grupo Puntacana, the private developer that also owns the adjacent Puntacana Resort — a unique arrangement in global commercial aviation. PUJ's operational profile is almost entirely international leisure: roughly 95 percent of passengers are foreign visitors, and traffic is split among dozens of US, Canadian, Latin American, and European carriers with no single dominant hub airline. American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, Southwest, Air Canada, WestJet, Sunwing, Air Transat, TUI, Condor, Iberia, Air Europa, Arajet, and Copa all fly to PUJ, making the airport one of the most carrier-diverse airports in the Western Hemisphere relative to its size. The Dominican Republic's duty-free regime and the airport's proximity to the all-inclusive resort strip (Bávaro, Cap Cana, Uvero Alto, Macao) drive traffic that has consistently ranked the country among the top three Caribbean destinations by arrivals. PUJ operates two parallel asphalt runways — 08/26 and 09/27, each 10,171 ft (3,100 m) long and 148 ft (45 m) wide — and a highly distinctive terminal complex: passenger buildings are designed as open-air palm-thatched (cana) roofed pavilions in keeping with the resort aesthetic, with natural ventilation and tropical landscaping throughout, making PUJ one of the very few major international airports built substantially without enclosed air-conditioned concourses. Terminal A, Terminal B, and the private-aviation Terminal C sit in a campus-style arrangement along the coastal road.