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Airport lounges deploy thick doors to block terminal noise

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The promise of exclusivity is largely just the promise of silence. They use heavy-duty acoustic sealing so the VIPs do not have to hear the gate announcements or crying infants outside.

Airport lounges deploy thick doors to block terminal noise
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