A380neo? Emirates pushes for a modernized version of Airbus' SuperJumbo

"If we put $20 billion on the table" and he's serious.

We live in an age of hundreds-deep call stacks and eleven-digit projects. Awesome complexity, generally well handled.

It was just a question of time.

Even without spoke-and-hub model, hubs grow and there are more hubs. Airports are the bottleneck. 500 passengers per landing adds capacity.