Las Américas International Airport

ICAO MDSD18.4297°N 69.6689°W18 m / 59 ftLarge airport

Las Américas International Airport (IATA: SDQ, ICAO: MDSD) is a large airport in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic. It opened in 1959. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,353 m (11,000 ft). In 2023 it handled 5.3 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1959–1970

1959

OpenedLas Américas International Airport opens.

15 FEB 1970

DisasterDominicana DC-9 air disaster.102 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

17/35161° / 341° · LIT

LENGTH3,353 m11,000 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

18/36173° / 353°

LENGTH2,991 m9,813 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2023

3.1M

3.3M

3.5M

3.7M

3.8M

3.9M

1.9M

3.8M

4.5M

5.3M

111213141516171820212223

Routes

41 destinations · 28 countries

Year-round34

Seasonal4

TPATampa International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines1,688 km1,049 mi PHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, American Airlines2,444 km1,519 mi YULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada3,030 km1,883 mi FCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · ITA Airways7,999 km4,970 mi

Cargo4

PUJPunta Cana International AirportDominican Republic · Amerijet International138 km86 mi BGIGrantley Adams International AirportBarbados · Amerijet International1,241 km771 mi MIAMiami International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines, Amerijet International1,366 km849 mi SDFLouisville Muhammad Ali International AirportUnited States · UPS Airlines2,691 km1,672 mi

Most destinationsArajet 17Sky High Aviation Services 7JetBlue Airways 5Frontier Airlines 3Amerijet International 3Sunrise Airways 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SDQ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Las Américas International Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers5.3M (2023)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#327of 3,974 · #74 North America · #2 DO Longest runway3,353 m11,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=659of 29,823 · =157 North America · #1 DO Elevation18 m59 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,700of 43,341 · =17,575 North America · #24 DO AgeOpened 19592026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,466of 15,079 · =3,045 North America · #2 DO Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =1 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

6 channels

APPAPP119.300

ATISATIS126.200

FCCSANTO DOMINGO INFO126.900

FSSFSS122.000

GNDGND121.900

TWRTWR118.100