HUB 2050
Three hub sites where one twelve-hour flight becomes two of six — flown by the narrowbodies airlines already own.
Check any pair
See how the trip splits, and how far it is.
Each sits where a long route wants to break in half. South Greenland goes first.
The midpoint of the Atlantic. Almost every North America–Europe pair breaks into two similar sectors here. This round’s talks and study start with this corridor.
North America–Europe pairs become two similar narrowbody sectors.
On the Uzbekistan–Kazakhstan border, north of Aydar Lake. Shared by two countries, owned by neither — under the flight paths that now go around Russia.
Europe–Asia pairs become two similar narrowbody sectors.
US territory in the Aleutians, on the line between East Asia and North America. The runway is already there.
North America–Asia pairs become two similar narrowbody sectors.
The differentiator
The 737 MAX and A321neo are the most common and most efficient airliners in the world, with more than 12,000 on order. Legacy long-haul needs a widebody and a thick route. A midpoint hub turns one widebody route into two narrowbody sectors.
Narrowbody reach from
Examples · tap one to draw it
The fleet, to scale
Top view · same scale
Same seats, more days
About 1,200 seats a week either way. Four departures become seven.
Already on order
12,000+
737 family 4,888 and A320neo family 7,461 unfilled orders, end of June 2026. Each dot is 100 aircraft.
Same demand, more flights. Routes a widebody could never fill, flown every day by the aircraft every airline already operates.
What a hub makes possible
Every bank of flights brings people, cargo and money through one point, several times a day.
Airlines, maintenance, logistics, hotels, finance and services settle where the flights are. Dubai and Singapore grew from exactly this.
A hub that runs all day needs people living beside it. On land that is cheap today, that is a planned, compact city — and real-estate value that does not exist yet.
Energy, industry and transport come later. This round is about the connection.
The first
$100,000
Forms the foundation, opens the conversations, pays for the analysis.
$25,000
A counterparty needs something to sign with.
$35,000
The people who would have to say yes.
The output of this round is two letters — one from a host, one from an airline. Every institution we approach is listed publicly, with the reply.
$40,000
The North Atlantic corridor study.
We publish what we find, including results we do not like.
Raise less, and the order is foundation, talks, analysis. Whatever is funded gets done.
The path
Each step is paid for by what the step before it produced.
You are here
The foundation, the first talks, the North Atlantic corridor study.
OutputTwo letters — one from a host, one from an airline.
Pre-feasibility with a host government, its airports company and an airline partner. Paid for by grants and partners, not by this round.
OutputA signed host agreement.
The airport and the land around it get their own commercial rules. This is the step that makes serious capital possible.
OutputA concession, or legislation.
A development company, project finance, long leases on the land around the hub, and the first phase of the airport.
OutputFirst flight.
Step three looks different at each site. Greenland and Adak: a lease and an airport concession, under the government that is already there. Central Asia: a zone with its own commercial rules — Kazakhstan already runs one in Astana, the AIFC, on English common law.
The corridor study and the dataset, the day they are published.
Your name in the study, if you want it there.
A call with me before the study is finalised.
Patronage, not investment: no equity, no return, no token. The round opens in December 2026 — get on the list and you will have the tiers and the closing date before anyone else. Nothing is collected before the foundation is registered. Questions: contact.hub.organization@gmail.com.
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From Poland, educated in England in finance, living in Guangzhou. Fascinated by one idea: a well-placed connection point does not just shorten trips — it builds a city.
Not an aviation engineer — which is why the numbers are public and an expert is paid to check them. Break it if you can: contact.hub.organization@gmail.com, or @hubvision2050project on Substack.
A hub that works raises later questions — energy, industry, ground transport. We have views. This round does not pay for them.