With more than 1,000 planes still waiting to land in Haiti, the commander of U.S. forces in the region said that officals have opened a third alternate airport to hasten the movement of relief supplies, according to AP Gen. Douglas Fraser, the head of U.S. Southern Command, told a Pentagon news conference Thursday that 120 to 140 flights a day are now able to land at the country's single airport in Port-au-Prince, which was damaged in last week's earthquake. Fraser said officials have a list of 1,400 flights waiting to get into the country. Fraser said in a videoconference from Haiti that in addition to alternative airfields opened this week in Jacmel, Haiti, and one in the neighboring Dominican Republic, another airport is now open in the Dominican Republic.
