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United Airlines Sells Seats. What It's Really Building Is Loyalty.
5,000 flights a day, 370-plus destinations, 130 million MileagePlus members - inside the Chicago carrier's plan to make the network itself the product.
American Airlines Is a City in the Sky - and Loyalty Is Its Most Valuable Runway
American moves more than 200 million people a year, but the seat is only the beginning. Behind every boarding pass sits a carefully timed network, a loyalty currency, a cargo hold and a century of operational bets.
Poseidon Aerospace
Poseidon Aerospace is a San Francisco startup building unmanned cargo aircraft designed to move heavy loads to places without runways. Founded in 2024 by ex-Amazon engineer David Zagaynov and ex-Lockheed Martin engineer Parker Tenney, the company is developing two purpose-built autonomous platforms - Egret, a short takeoff and landing aircraft, and Heron, an amphibious seaplane - each engineered to carry up to two tons roughly 1,500 miles. Backed by an $11M seed round led by Tamarack Global, Poseidon aims to slash the cost-per-ton-mile of air logistics for both commercial feeder routes and contested military supply missions, with first full-scale flight tests targeted for mid-2026.