# IDAC upgrades landing systems at Punta Cana airport with ILS-DME

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Published: 2026-10-02T15:31:27.313Z
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Author: Joan Sanz
Topics: Aeropuertos
Summary: Punta Cana airport will get a new ILS-DME instrument landing system, an operational upgrade that backs connectivity at the Dominican Republic's leading tourism hub.

## Article

The Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC) will install an **ILS-DME** instrument landing system at Punta Cana International Airport, according to [Arecoa](https://www.arecoa.com/aeropuertos/2026/10/02/idac-instalara-moderno-sistema-de-aterrizaje-en-el-aeropuerto-de-punta-cana/). The move is part of the agency's ongoing air navigation modernisation programme.

ILS-DME guides aircraft with precision on low-visibility approaches, which matters at a terminal that moves millions of passengers a year and acts as the natural gateway to the Bávaro-Punta Cana corridor. For the State, it is a modest spend next to the hotel infrastructure that keeps this destination running.

The signal this announcement sends sits right at the waterline of the Dominican tourism business. IDAC is strengthening [the airport's connectivity](https://www.arecoa.com/aeropuertos/2026/10/02/idac-instalara-moderno-sistema-de-aterrizaje-en-el-aeropuerto-de-punta-cana/) without touching the sun-and-beach model. It is the quiet investment that keeps Punta Cana in the Caribbean's top flight, no fireworks attached, with a return measured in planes that land when they previously might not have.

## Sources

- Arecoa: https://www.arecoa.com/aeropuertos/2026/10/02/idac-instalara-moderno-sistema-de-aterrizaje-en-el-aeropuerto-de-punta-cana/

## Citation

IDAC upgrades landing systems at Punta Cana airport with ILS-DME. Turismo News. 2026-10-02. https://turismo.news/en/digest/idac-ils-punta-cana-airport