When a three-year-old girl and her family arrived in Atlanta earlier this summer for cancer care, Endeavor pilot Push Saha was waiting for them at the airport with stuffed animals, snacks, and a message only someone who had been in a similar place could truly offer: you are not alone.
For Push, the moment was deeply personal. Decades earlier, he had been the child traveling to Atlanta for surgery after being diagnosed with a brain tumor at age four. The surgery was followed by 10 to 12 years of physical therapy as he worked to regain mobility on the right side of his body.
“I grew up going to India every year, and I just absolutely loved seeing the airplanes,” Push said. “I always wanted to become a pilot, but I never thought I’d be able to get it done. In high school, I decided to pursue it, and the medical process took a little bit longer. Once I got my medical, I wasn’t going to waste the opportunity to become an airline pilot.”
Even then, airplanes held his attention. They represented movement, possibility, and a future that, at times, felt far from certain.
In 2019, Push went on to attend Auburn University and become a flight instructor. In December 2024, Push fulfilled his dream and earned his Endeavor Air wings. But reaching the flight deck did not quiet the part of him that remembered what it felt like to be a patient, a kid, and a family trying to get through the unknown.
Inspired by the doctors, nurses, family, and friends who supported him through his own cancer journey, Push and his best friends Tristan, a regional airline pilot, founded the Limitless Foundation in 2025, a nonprofit that provides free round-trip flights for families traveling for pediatric cancer trials and care.
“Tristan and I knew we had to do something meaningful and impactful with our lives,” Push said. “As much fun as flying is, I feel like there’s a bigger purpose for me to serve because I almost died once. I knew I have a calling to help people.”
Medical care is hard enough without the added weight of travel costs, logistics, and uncertainty. Push understands how much families are already carrying, and the foundation is designed to remove one burden from an already overwhelming experience.
The foundation works with the same children’s hospital in Atlanta where Push received treatment. A hospital social worker partners with the Limitless Foundation’s medical advisor to identify eligible patients and confirm whether they are fit to fly.
This summer, the foundation completed its first flight, bringing its mission into focus. The family had come from Connecticut to Atlanta for care, and Push was there not as a pilot in the cockpit, but as someone who understood the fear, hope, and exhaustion that can come with the journey.
“It feels nice to be able to do something positive,” he said. “I feel like that’s a lot more rewarding to me than anything else in life.”
That outlook did not happen all at once. Years ago, at Camp Sunshine, a summer camp for children with cancer in Georgia, Push began to see his experience differently. He met children who were facing serious challenges and still finding ways to show up with joy, courage, and perspective.
“With my surgeries, countless doctor appointments, and pain that came along with it, I was kind of upset that I was a different kid in middle school,” Push said. “The first day of camp, I saw a kid crawling up the rock wall with one leg and the biggest smile on his face. Seeing that gave me a completely different perspective on life: don’t look at cancer as a disadvantage, but an advantage.”
It was a simple moment, but it changed the way Push thought about what cancer had taken from him and what it had given him.
Now, he hopes to pass that perspective along to other families. Not by minimizing what they are facing, but by helping them see that a diagnosis does not get to decide the full shape of a child’s life.
The Limitless Foundation’s name reflects that belief. Circumstances can be painful, complicated, and unfair, but they do not have to be the boundary line for what is possible.
“You just need one tiny ray of hope,” he said. “A little bit of hope that can then carry you on and give you that strength through the toughest of times.”
For Push, that small ray of hope helped carry him from a hospital in Atlanta to the flight deck at Endeavor. Now, through the Limitless Foundation, he is helping make the path a little lighter for families walking through their own hardest days.
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