FlightWifi

Know your flight's Wi-Fi before you book.

An airline announcing Starlink doesn't mean your flight has Starlink. Planes are upgraded one at a time, and your ticket is for one specific aircraft. We track what is actually flying, across 235 airlines, from the airlines and their connectivity providers.

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235 airlines · 650 cited sources · last verified 2026-08

Google Flights results with FlightWifi verdict chips inline: Email & browsing on Etihad, Varies by aircraft on Gulf Air, Not on every aircraft on Air India

A live Delhi to London search with the extension installed. Six different answers on one page.

Every claim has a source

650 citations across 235 airlines, listed on each airline's page with the date it was checked and whether it came from the airline or the trade press. How it is compiled.

The data is open

The whole registry is published as JSON under CC BY 4.0, so you can check any verdict yourself rather than take ours.

Nothing is collected

No account, no analytics, no tracking, on the site or in the extension. It has no server to send anything to. Privacy policy.

Every flight gets one of six honest verdicts

Video calls work

Low-orbit satellite. Quick enough to be treated like ground wifi.

Email & browsing

High-orbit satellite. The lag is the limit, not the speed.

Varies by aircraft

Every plane has wifi, but only some carry the fast system.

Not on every aircraft

Part of the fleet has no wifi, and the schedule will not say which plane you get.

No Wi-Fi

No usable internet on this aircraft.

Not verified

We would rather say nothing than guess.

Starlink, as actually installed

19 airlines are carrying passengers on Starlink today. Most are mid-retrofit, so it is the aircraft that decides. Press releases quote contracted totals; this table tracks what is in service.

AirlineCoverageCost
Aer LingusWhole fleetFree
Air CanadaSome aircraftFree with account
Air FranceWhole fleetFree with account
Air New ZealandSome aircraftFree with account
airBalticWhole fleetFree
Alaska AirlinesWhole fleetFree with account
British AirwaysWhole fleetFree
Copa AirlinesWhole fleetPaid

See all 19 airlines and every announced deal

How the extension works

  1. Step 1

    Search flights normally

    Google Flights, Skyscanner or Soar. Nothing to configure.

  2. Step 2

    We read the exact aircraft

    Each result names its plane, and the registry knows what that plane carries.

  3. Step 3

    The verdict appears inline

    Next to each flight, before you book, with sources one hover away.

Frequently asked questions

Which airlines have Starlink Wi-Fi right now?

As of August 2026, Starlink is flying with passengers on Qatar Airways, United, Emirates, Hawaiian, WestJet, SAS, Air France, Aer Lingus, Iberia, Virgin Atlantic (A350s), airBaltic, ZIPAIR, British Airways (five 787s), Southwest, Alaska, Copa, Gulf Air and more. Many of these are mid-retrofit, so whether your specific plane has it varies. Our Starlink tracker shows the in-service status per airline.

Can you make video calls on plane Wi-Fi?

Only on low-orbit systems like Starlink, where latency is 20-50 ms. Traditional satellite wifi runs through geostationary satellites 36,000 km up, adding roughly 600 ms of lag, which breaks live calls even when bandwidth is fine. Some airlines also prohibit calls as policy even on fast wifi.

Why does the same airline have great Wi-Fi on one flight and none on another?

Airlines announce deals fleet-wide but retrofit one aircraft at a time. United had about 522 of 1,817 aircraft converted as of mid-August 2026. Your ticket is for one specific aircraft, so on mid-rollout fleets the wifi is decided by which plane shows up.

Is airline Wi-Fi free?

Increasingly yes, but usually behind a free loyalty sign-up: United (MileagePlus), Air France (Flying Blue), SAS (EuroBonus), Southwest (Rapid Rewards), Delta (SkyMiles). Qatar, Emirates, airBaltic, ZIPAIR and Aer Lingus make Starlink free for everyone. Legacy satellite wifi is still commonly paid.

Where does this data come from?

Airlines' own pages and connectivity-provider announcements (SpaceX, Viasat, Panasonic, Intelsat, SES, Anuvu, SITA) come first, with established aviation trade reporting used to corroborate them and to cover the minority of carriers that publish nothing about wifi. Every airline page lists its own sources, says which kind they are, and carries a last-verified date.

See these verdicts while you book

The free FlightWifi extension shows them inline on Google Flights, Skyscanner and Soar, matched to the exact aircraft on your flight.

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