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Santiago Municipal Airport was a both passenger and military airport located in the Center of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. This airport served this city with daily flights to San Juan in Puerto Rico, Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Miami and so many domestics destinations in the country. It was the major Hub of Dominair, who had based two Dash 8 here. It also used as a secondary hub by the FAD. ==History== This Airport was built in the 1930s, during Trujillo's government, with the major propose to stimulate the city's growth. The operations were focused to the passenger movements between San Juan and Santiago, and also the cargo operations to San Juan, Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince. Before ceasing operations, Dominicana de Aviación became the first airline to connect Santiago with the United States, starting operations between Santiago and Miami, in McDonnell Douglas DC-6 Aircraft in the 1970s. In the 1990s, another Dominican airline, Dominair, started operations in the airport, with two daily flights to San Juan. They added flights to Port-au-Prince three years later. In 1998 the airport had the biggest expansion ever. They enlarged the runway to support operation of the American Eagle's ATR aircraft. The airport reminded closed for at least eight months. In 1999 American Eagle started, for the first time, operations in Santiago, adding two daily flights to San Juan, making Dominair to leave the route. In 2002 the airport closed its doors to the public due to the inauguration of a bigger airport, Cibao International Airport, located 15 minutes away from the city center. This new airport allowed jet-passenger aircraft operations and could receive flights from New York, Miami and San Juan, which Santiago Municipal Airport could not handle. On March 18, 2002, the two American Eagle's flights to San Juan were transferred to the new Cibao International Airport, ceasing definitively passenger operations in Santiago Municipal Airport. A Year later the Santiago Air Base became unnecessary for the FAD, and a cost that they could not handle by them selves, so they moved all operations to the Puerto Plata Air Base (Located in Gregorio Luperon International Airport). Santiago Municipal was now completely closed, with no operations at all. Santiago Municipal Airport is now known as Cibao Center National Police, north command of operations for the National Police. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santiago Municipal Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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