United plans to connect all of its roughly 1,000 airplanes to Starlink.
United plans to connect all of its roughly 1,000 airplanes to the service, which company officials said would make the agreement the largest that Starlink has with a commercial airline. Testing will begin in 2025 with the first connected commercial flights expected later in the year.
The installation of Starlink, which is owned by Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, will proceed by the type of aircraft. Jojo said United hasn’t decided which type of plane will be first. Implementing the service across the company’s fleet will likely take a couple of years, she said.orbiting around the Earth. Jojo said the way the Starlink internet works is “just fundamentally different” from the way the Wi-Fi currently available onboard works.
Once United’s planes are connected to Starlink, passengers will be able to livestream TV shows and movies without a lag from buffering, the airline said. People will be able to download and upload documents and edit files in real time. And passengers can play live games, shop online and connect multiple devices at once under one user.
The current fees for internet service was a way to control the number of people using it to preserve bandwidth.
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