Terminal 1

Business travel produces a lot of dead time. Airport layovers routinely run to three hours, and they happen surrounded by exactly the kind of people you would want to meet — other professionals on the move. Terminal1 (also written Terminal 1) is a networking platform that uses AI to surface those people and turn a wait at the gate into a genuine conversation.

The workflow is deliberately simple. You forward a flight booking to Terminal1, the platform reads the itinerary, and its matching engine looks for other members who will be in the same airport at overlapping times. Matching draws on your LinkedIn profile, so candidates are filtered by industry, skills and interests rather than proximity alone. When there is a promising pairing, the AI suggests a meeting slot that respects both flight times and gate locations, and you connect in the lounge or at the gate before boarding. A built-in assistant called Maya handles the itinerary, curates your profile and answers journey questions.

Terminal1 is aimed at frequent flyers — consultants, founders, sales teams and executives — for whom an airport is a working environment rather than an inconvenience. The obvious caveat is network effects: match quality depends on how many other members are in your terminal at the same time, so the product is most valuable on busy business routes and at major hubs.