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Free Starlink Internet is coming to all of United's airplanes
The upgrade starts in 2025, but with more than 1,000 planes, will take several years.
After an aborted attempt in 2004, 2008 made in-flight Internet access a reality in North America, although the air-to-ground cellular-based system was slow, unreliable, and expensive. Initially, Starlink only targeted smaller regional and private jet aircraft, but now its equipment is also certified for commercial passenger planes from Airbus and Boeing and is already in use with carriers including Qatar Airways and Air New Zealand. The service will be available gate-to-gate (as opposed to only working above 10,000 feet, a restriction some other systems operate under), and it certainly sounds like a superior experience to current in-flight Internet, as it will explicitly allow streaming of both video and games, and multiple connected devices at once.
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