The expansion of Terminal B of the Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) began operations last Friday, June 30, with the arrival of its first flight, with the arrival of 189 passengers aboard American Airlines 2925 from Charlotte, United States.
To date, with only 5 days of opening, it has received 60 flights and mobilized 17,923 passengers, operating initially with airlines from North America and with plans to expand to connectivity routes in Latin America and Europe.
“The expansion of Terminal B is one of our most anticipated expansion projects this year, being an example in the aeronautical world, as there are few terminals in Latin America with this infrastructure design. Its quality can be compared to any airport in the world. We project that, with this addition, the airport will exceed 11 million passengers annually,” said Frank Elías Rainieri, president and CEO of Grupo Puntacana.
The expansion of Terminal B of the Punta Cana International Airport has an investment of more than US$90 million, and will allow the airport to handle 5,000 passengers per hour and 4 million passengers per year. This project will cover an area of about 35 thousand m² and has seven boarding gates and seven air bridges. The expansion was developed by local architects and engineers.
“As a company we work to offer unique experiences at our facilities. We hope our visitors enjoy this terminal. We have great expectations with this extension, which raises the standards of our airport to an international level, because we believe in service, innovation and imagination,” Rainieri said.
Terminal B is one of the most modern airport terminals in the region, with flagship amenities and services such as a VIP Lounge with a swimming pool and an impressive view of the runway, Fast Track service and a modern food truck area with a wide gastronomic variety.
It also has flight self-registration kiosks, migration with e-gates, 10 state-of-the-art body scanners, 8 tomographic machines and 4 automated machines, making it one of the most modern in terms of equipment in all of Latin America.
Airport Technology
Some of its new technological implementations are smart path – biometrics for check-in procedures without agent assistance, self-service kiosk and mobile technology with fast and secure biometric enrollment/registration, self-service baggage handling with biometric verification, single or double electronic self-service boarding gates, access control to secure areas and automated border control.
In addition, new self-check-in kiosks with bag tag printing, an Explosive Detection System (EDS) at the security checkpoint and baggage carousel, new security screens, auto-gates, self-service boarding, ABC kiosks in the immigration arrival area and soon the self-service bag drop will be implemented.
About Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ)
Inaugurated in 1983, it is the first private airport for international commercial use in the world, the busiest in the Dominican Republic and the one with the greatest connectivity in the Caribbean, connecting 64 cities and 26 countries around the world, handling eight million passengers a year.
It has two runways, 27 boarding gates, 30 aircraft parking areas, and three VIP lounges. It also has its own Recycling and Incineration Center, where 60% of the waste it generates is recycled.
Punta Cana International Airport achieved a record 8 million passenger movements, becoming the first airport in the country to reach this figure, evidencing the growth of the Dominican tourism industry.
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