Cibao International Airport
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Cibao International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao S.A. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Santiago de los Caballeros | ||||||||||
| Location | Licey in Santiago Province, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Focus city for | InterCaribbean Airways | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 565 ft / 172 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°24′22″N 070°36′17″W / 19.40611°N 70.60472°WCoordinates: 19°24′22″N 070°36′17″W / 19.40611°N 70.60472°W | ||||||||||
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| Passengers |
 1,397,734 |
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| Aircraft Operations | 9,436 |
| Cargo | 30,000,000 Lbs |
| Based Aircraft | 14 |
Cibao International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional del Cibao) (IATA: STI, ICAO: MDST) also known as Santiago Airport, is located in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic's second largest city. It's the country's third busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, after Punta Cana International Airport and Las Américas International Airport.
The airport is located 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) southeast of Santiago City's center.
The air terminal mainly serves Dominicans residing in the United States, Cuba, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Puerto Rico and Panama, as well as Haitians residing in the Cibao Region. Recently many tourists and missionary workers are using Cibao Int'l as a gateway to the Dominican Republic.
JetBlue Airways is the primary international operator, with up to seven daily flights to New York-JFK, Newark, Boston and San Juan.
InterCaribbean Airways, flag carrier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, designates Santiago as their major international focus city, operating more than ten flights a week, in high season, to Providenciales and Grand Turk.
Plans for the construction of the airport were first proposed in 1969. The Cibao International Airport Corporation was created on March 29, 1978 with the cooperation of José Armando Bermúdez (president), Víctor Espaillat, Manuel Arsenio Ureña, Dr. José Augusto Imbert, Mario Cáceres and Ing. Carlos S. Fondeur, who acquired the land necessary to build the new airport.
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