Las Américas International Airport — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Las Américas International Airport serves Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic and the oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in the Americas, founded by Spanish colonizers in the final years of the fifteenth century. Located along the Caribbean coast east of the capital, SDQ functions primarily as a gateway for business travel, government affairs, and visitors interested in the colonial architecture of the Zona Colonial, a UNESCO World Heritage district with the oldest cathedral and oldest paved street in the hemisphere. While the eastern resort airport at Punta Cana handles a larger share of the country's leisure tourism traffic, SDQ remains the busiest and most important airport for the capital region, hosting numerous carriers connecting the Dominican Republic to North America, Europe, and other parts of the Caribbean and Latin America. The airport has undergone repeated terminal upgrades to accommodate steadily rising traffic over recent decades.