Getting around SDQ
Las Américas is the Dominican Republic’s capital gateway, sitting on Route 66 in La Caleta, a few minutes east of central Santo Domingo — not a resort strip like Punta Cana, which is why its traffic barely moves with the seasons: JetBlue, American, Delta and Copa carry the diaspora and business travellers who fly it year-round. The single terminal building, built after the government shut the old General Andrews airport downtown in the 1940s, is loosely split into two halves that the airport itself labels three different ways depending on the page — “Terminal A/B” for the VIP lounges, “Ala Sur/Ala Norte” for the shops, “Terminal Norte” for the rental-car desks. A new $250-million terminal is already under construction on site, aiming for 2028. In 2025 the airport handled 5,212,378 passengers, per the Dominican civil aviation authority (JAC) — the country’s most stable airport, not its busiest.
