Whether travelling by aircraft, train or roads or a combination thereof, the EU aims to reduce the door-to-door travel time within Europe to approximately four hours overall travel time. This goal is hard to reach, especially when flights already take three hours or more. Since aircraft realistically can’t fly faster without going supersonic or facing a lot more drag, time must be gained elsewhere. Most time is lost whenever something or someone is waiting for a process to complete, before the next phase of the journey can start: transferring, (dis)embarking, (un)loading, servicing and cleaning, refuelling, waiting (in-line), etc. The target then is to reduce, streamline or even eliminate processes from the entire trip to come to a faster journey. For both passengers and cargo, the process of (un)loading aircraft consists of a lot of consecutive processes, where the loading can only commence once the unloading is done and many process steps require middlemen like luggage loaders. Next to that, aircraft are often loaded one item or passenger at a time. The concept of pods is to be able to quickly replace or (un)load a “payload contained in its own cocoon” from an aircraft. Traditionally a nacelle-pod is mounted underwing, like a range extending fuel tank on a jet fighter; in this case the pod replaces the entire internal fuselage in one go (both passenger and cargo payloads), rather than loading and boarding the aircraft piece-wise. Although the pods would be loaded piecewise themselves, they would be loaded filled onto the aircraft. To allow a pod to be loaded rapidly, an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) with a lifting system could drive underneath an aircraft with an opened bottom side (and nose or rear entrance) and leave or collect a pod like it would place or collect a container at container terminals. Next to much faster (un)loading times in the order of minutes, the pod process will separate the cabin process from the platform processes. Separation allows the parallel execution of cabin and cargo processes, halving the time currently required to prepare an aircraft for flight. The logistical advantages gained from such a system are enormous and benefit all of the direct actors and most of the indirect actors immediately by saving time and thus money: For airlines, a lot of time can be gained in turning around the aircraft for the next flight, meaning more flights per day can be executed. As the pod is much smaller than conventional aircraft, gates can be significantly more compact. More compact gates reduce transfer times for passengers, as well as utilising the expensive ground of the airport more efficiently which could increase the amount of slots available at an airport and lower airport costs for airlines per flight. The higher throughput and gate capacity would increase overall airport capacity. With gates closer together and possibly not having to transfer to other vehicles at another part of the airport, passengers lose less time and can transfer more easily. Having passengers (dis)embark outside of the airport has further logistical advantages to the airport, which would see shorter queues, less pressure on the parking terminals and a more efficient boarding process, while passengers would have smaller transfer times. To accomplish this, the same pod could be loaded onto a vehicle that can bring it somewhere other than the airport. It would be best to connect the airport with other destinations through a privatised AGV track. A private track is basically the only solution for security issues as it prevents a huge loss in time due to security bottleneck issues upon entering the airport from a public space with a large group of people. Being able to set the standards for a track would also reduce the restrictions on dimensions and reduce problems with certification of AGVs (due to not sharing the track with manual driven vehicles) and allows for the track to be used by other feeder systems, such as shuttles as well with a more optimal usage (occupation density) of the track in comparison to trains and at guaranteed speeds (significantly reduced chance of congestion or delays).