<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History of Maria Montez International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Maria Montez Airport was officially inaugurated on Saturday, April 27, 1996, in a ceremony presided over by President Joaqun Balaguer. It was built at a cost of almost five hundred million pesos.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 2010, as consequences of the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, about 70 members of the 61 The fifth contingency response wing of the United States Army was deployed in the Dominican Republic with the support of Operation Unified Response. Due to the influx of overwhelming air traffic at the Port-au-Prince International Airport, Haiti,</p>
<p class="blog-para">additional locations were identified at the San Isidro Air Base and Maria Montez International Airport as delivery staging areas for the provision of humanitarian aid. In 2011, with an investment of $30 million pesos RD, the runway was restored and takeoff was allowed at that air station, which has a dimension of 3.000 meters, a platform for aircraft parking of 40.000 square meters, and a taxiway of 300 meters where they facilitate the operations of large aircraft.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In the month of July 2012, the operations of the International Company organization Terpel were initiated as an aviation fuel supplier for the airport. In 2016, Aerodom was the operator of this terminal, which has around 22 employees who efficiently perform all the tasks of airport maintenance. The IDAC, who manages the operations in the airspace, has approximately 40 employees: 10 CTA and 3 CNS, who are in charge of radio communications, where Mr. Jess Padilla stood out for his help and contributions to that department; 4 FIS and 3 safety flight; and more than 15 administrative. The terminal has immigration services, customs, plant and animal health, and drug control. Security is commissioned by the specialized Civil Aviation Security Corps (CESAC), which controls the safety of the terminal.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 2017, the biggest investment in the private sector in the area was for the hotel and real estate project Perla del Sur, in La Cienaga, which is intended to open in 2019 with a first stage of 162 bitaciones. Although the project contemplates 1,200 rooms that will be finished in eight years, this will allow the entrance of a greater number of tourists via this terminal, which is and will be used for this project for expansive purposes. In August 2018, the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) built an asphalt road access to the airport from the city as well as its parking aerial to improve the conditions of this airfield.</p>
<p class="blog-para">These improvements are framed to make the airport's appearance and conditions better, and for users who occasionally make use of that air terminal, they can show the intentions that the state has to put the terminal into operation. 6 Asphalt Works North Park of AIMM Barahona The asphalt that carries out public works, in its first phase, contemplates the road that gives access and the whole area of parking, which is already in the phase of completion, for Maria Montez and then, according to a source for this medium, will continue with the runway of that term Air Inar, which will be conditioned and extended.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Airlines and destinations</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Airlines -&gt;Destinations</p>
<p class="blog-para">Air Century-&gt;Seasonal: Santo Domingo&ndash;La Isabela</p>
<p class="blog-para">M&amp;N Aviation-&gt;Seasonal: San Juan</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title="Maria Montez  Airport" src="../../main/img/airport/maria/1.webp" alt="Maria Montez  Airport" width="950px" height="500px"></p>