IDAC brings Dominican aviation's record numbers to Washington

The director general of the IDAC, Igor Rodríguez Durán, took advantage of the 34th Dominican Week in the United States to put the numbers sustaining the country's connectivity on the table: 585,363 air operations and more than 50 million passengers carried. He said it from Washington, as reported by Suelocaribe, and the setting is no accident. Miami, New York and Boston concentrate a large share of the traffic feeding Punta Cana, Santiago and Santo Domingo, so bringing the data to U.S. soil is speaking directly to the market that fills the flights.

The takeaway for the sector is simple: without that volume of operations, the Bávaro resorts cannot hold occupancy and the Cibao airports cannot justify new routes. Every passenger who lands leaves behind taxes, airport fees and spending, and that money ends up in the provincial coffers where the hotel sits, not only in the National District.

Worth watching closely is how the IDAC turns this moment into new frequencies and open-skies agreements with U.S. airlines. That is the logical next step.