JBQ

La Isabela International Airport

ICAO MDJB18.5725°N 69.9856°W30 m / 98 ftMedium airport
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La Isabela International Airport (IATA: JBQ, ICAO: MDJB) is a medium airport in La Isabela, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic. It opened in 2006. It has one runway, 1,650 m (5,412 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 104 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 2006–2021
2006
OpenedLa Isabela International Airport opens.
15 DEC 2021
Disaster2021 Punta Caucedo Gulfstream G-IVSP crash.9 killed

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19006° / 186° · LIT
LENGTH1,650 m5,412 ftWIDTH31 m100 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2022
37K
36K
39K
36K
48K
33K
31K
32K
49K
47K
89K
104K
101112131415161718202122

Routes

7 destinations · 6 countries

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from JBQ. From the Wikipedia article “La Isabela International Airport” (revision of 15 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

5 airlines · destinations from JBQ

Former hub of Aerolíneas Mas and VolAir.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from JBQ. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers104K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,799of 3,974 · #406 North America · #6 DOLongest runway1,650 m5,412 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,594of 29,858 · =1,803 North America · #10 DOElevation30 m98 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,957of 43,403 · =16,764 North America · #21 DOAgeOpened 20062026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=12,210of 15,079 · =9,709 North America · =7 DORunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =2,583 North America · =3 DO
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
GroundHIGUERO TWR121.700
Tower118.900