This Caribbean airport is building a pool practically on the runway

New York Post ^ | October 2, 2017 | Hana R. Alberts

[sparklite2]

Thanks to a planned pool at the Dominican Republic’s
Punta Cana airport — which serves as the gateway to a
 strip of beachfront resorts and has direct flights to NYC
 via JetBlue, United and Delta — fliers can cling to those
 last precious moments of vacation.

The under-construction swimming hole, designed by local
 architect Antonio Segundo Imbert to overlook an airstrip
and parked planes, is slated to open in December as
 part of a VIP lounge.

[BenLurkin]

Good for waterfowl

[GnuThere]

Put on a terry cloth robe and walk right onto the plane.
Although, one would stand out in the arrival hall in the US.

[txnativegop]

What the heck? Thought they didn’t want birds on the runways?

Must be trying to cause an aviation accident.

[libertylover]

That’s a long way from the runway.

[wastedyears]

How about that jet blast?

[reg45]

Jet blast: That’s for drying off.

[sparklite2]

“I love the smell of jet fuel
in the afternoon. Smells like,
I don’t know, sun tan lotion!”

[Molon Labbie]

Would this be considered “water boarding”?

[sparklite2]

If you’re not careful.

[adorno]

It’s like going to a foreign country, and not even seeing that country.

Wonder if France and the UK and Australia and Japan and every other country will copy the idea.

Punta Cana is just an excuse to go to a “place” with warmer weather, and the D.R. doesn’t really exist.

[Army Air Corps]

Mmmmm, Jet-A.

[sparklite2]

It’s like going to a foreign country, and not even seeing that country.

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I remember in the old days when people would load up AOL from one of the ubiquitous CDs, many of them thought AOL was the internet and never went beyond it.

[ThunderSleeps]

Yeah, nice quiet relaxing couple of hours poolside. Oh yeah, except for the (near?) continual jet noise.

Now, I enjoy the sound of freedom as much (probably more) as the next guy. But when I'm relaxing poolside? Not so much.

[sparklite2]

Not only that, it took an architect to design that oblong hole in the ground.

[doorgunner69]

Hearing protection provided for pool users?

[sagar]

“water boarding”?

You win the internets this year.

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[rlmorel]

I love the smell of jet exhaust...it brings me right back to my old days as a jet mechanic!

(kind of the way the smell of the combination of diesel exhaust, fish, and sewage brings me back to my days in Japan!)

[oxcart]

Bikini top intake damage!