Cryptic Instagram Post From United Airlines

I received a rather cryptic post from United Airlines shared via Instagram Stories and wonder what it could mean?

United Airlines Teases Announcement On Instagram Stories

This popped up in my stories feed last week. It was so strange I took a screenshot of it:

I’m genuinely at a loss. First, it’s nice to know I’m a “close friend” of United’s (indicated by the white star over a green box). But what could this possibly mean?

A new route? Is this a land mass? I thought it might be the islands of Maui, Lanai, and Moloka’i in Hawaii, but they do not quite match.

I also took a look in the Carribean and do not see a match.

Spain?

The Cook Islands?

Cape Verde?

Nope.

This morning, United posted this for everyone:

Here’s the tease:

Pssst, we’ve left some crumbs for you in our last five posts. Have you spotted them?

All will be revealed January 30 at 8 a.m. ET.

So what do you think?

Crumbs…I’m hearing about more meal service upgrades to Hawaii, new premium cocktails onboard, and new cokie (hence crumbs) but I have not heard anything about a new route announcement.

ChatGPT thinks the image above is referring to Greenland:

Maybe… especially with Greenland in the news as Trump renews the call for “Manifest Destiny” 2.0. But it doesn’t look like Greenland either…

So let’s put our collective wisdom together and try to figure out what is going on here. In any case, it appears we will know for sure tomorrow morning.