Just eight months after celebrating the launch of its first Caribbean cargo hub at the Dominican Republic’s Las Américas International Airport, Amazon Prime Air has suspended all cargo flights to the nation over underwhelming consumer and commercial demand, airport operator Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (AERODOM) has officially confirmed.
The termination of service, which came to light in the wake of a high-profile accident involving an Amazon Prime Air-branded cargo jet in Miami, marks an unexpected end to a project once billed as a transformative step for regional logistics connectivity. When the Dominican Republic was first named the base for Amazon’s Caribbean operations in September 2025, national leaders including President Luis Abinader and Customs Director Eduardo Sanz Lovatón heralded the announcement as a major economic win, positioning the country as the second Amazon Air hub across all of Latin America.
The inaugural Amazon Air cargo flight touched down at Las Américas International Airport just two days after the 2025 announcement, and the operation was initially mapped out to include seven weekly rotations between Miami and Santo Domingo, with a projected annual cargo capacity of roughly 770 metric tons. Unlike traditional Amazon infrastructure expansions, this project was designed exclusively as an air cargo transit hub, not to add a local fulfillment warehouse or last-mile delivery network for the Dominican market.
Luis José López Mena, a spokesperson for AERODOM, which manages all major commercial airports across the Dominican Republic, confirmed this week that no Prime Air flights have operated at AERODOM-managed facilities since the final service touched down in January 2026. When asked directly whether operations had been paused permanently for the time being, López Mena confirmed: “No, because there wasn’t enough demand. They aren’t flying here right now.”
The official confirmation of the suspension came in the aftermath of an incident involving Prime Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft operated by partner 21 Air on Amazon’s behalf. The flight, which had departed from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, veered off the runway during landing at Miami International Airport this past Sunday. AERODOM emphasized that the Dominican suspension was unrelated to the Miami accident, noting that the last Amazon Prime Air flight to the country had already taken place roughly eight months prior to the incident. To date, Amazon has not released any timeline for when or if service to the Dominican Republic might resume.