LAS AMERICAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
ICAO [MDSD] IATA [SDQ]
LOCATION: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, SANTO DOMINGO “Punta Caucedo”
FOR PREPAR3D, MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2020
TO THE CARIBBEAN YOU SAY?
This beautiful country of the Dominican Republic
Now you have a reason to fly to the Caribbean. Las Americas International Airport (also known as Jose F. Pena Gomez) is an international airport located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. MDSD usually receives a wide variety of long-, mid-and short-haul aircraft, airliners, charter, cargo, and military missions’ flights.
The airport is the second busiest in the country after losing its traffic frequency to Punta Cana International Airport, yet it is one of the largest in the Caribbean, handling 3.5 million passengers in 2017 through its air terminal. And is also the busiest cargo hub in the Caribbean and Central America with 405,000,000 lbs. of cargo (this is a lot for a small location) transported in 2020. For its size and location, it is basically a busy airport.
Airlines that routinely fly to MDSD:
Aeroméxico
Air Antilles
Air Caraïbes
Air Europa
Air France
Air Santo Domingo
American Airlines
Avianca
Avior Airlines
Condor
Conviasa
Copa Airlines
Delta Air Lines
Eastern Airlines
Frontier Airlines
Iberia Madrid
InterCaribbean Airways
JetBlue
LASER Airlines
Nordwind Airlines
Sky High
Spirit Airlines
TUI Fly
Sunrise Airways
United Airlines
Venezolana
Wingo
Cargo Airlines
Amerijet International
Avianca Cargo
UPS Airlines
FedEx
FEATURES
The only and most realistic depiction of the real airport available online. Hundreds of original handmade (redone for the MSFS version) custom textures to avoid repetition. Clutter models represent the brand that operates the airport services. Lighting throughout the entire airport scenery. Static and historical aircrafts placed where they always been. Terminal A includes a (at the moment basic) passenger waiting boarding interior. (TERMINAL B will have interior) Custom runway and ground textures according to up-to-date references of images and videos. Surrounding area with specific autogen vegetation to match real life. Free future updates (only on the sim is for). PBR reflections on glass and on most clutter objects. Ambient occlusion on most buildings to prevent rain inside the location (MSFS). Custom surrounding buildings and signs mostly before RWY 17 approach. Airport at a real elevation height. Most marshalls represent the ethnic group of the region. A few easter-eggs. Many other details!!!
Terminal 2 jetways B1-B4 are fully animated. Gaya World Update 16 MDPP has animated T-BRIDGE Jetway. We will try to get those going soon for MDSD.
AS OF JANUARY 2024, WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE STATUS OF THIS AIRPORT: It has a new terminal 2.
Jetways on terminal 2 do not work well. They stopped working properly since SU6. A couple of updates were produced but these did not help. We are a skeleton crew of 2 people so we will update it.