Starlink Wi-Fi on flights

22 airlines are carrying passengers on Starlink today: Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air France, Air New Zealand, airBaltic, Alaska Airlines, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Copa Airlines, Emirates, Gulf Air, Hawaiian Airlines, Iberia, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways, SAS, Southwest, SWISS, United, Virgin Atlantic, WestJet and ZIPAIR. Another 19 have signed a deal with nothing flying yet. The table on this page keeps those two apart and says how far each rollout has got.

Almost never. Only airBaltic and ZIPAIR have Starlink on every aircraft they fly. Everywhere else the airline is mid-retrofit, Austrian Airlines at 1 of 20, British Airways at 17 of 300 and Lufthansa at 1 of 11. Your ticket is for one specific aircraft, so on those fleets the tail that turns up decides what you get.

Usually. 7 of the 22 flying airlines make it free for every passenger: Aer Lingus, airBaltic, British Airways, Emirates, Gulf Air, Iberia and ZIPAIR. Most of the rest make it free behind a loyalty account that costs nothing to join, such as MileagePlus on United, Flying Blue on Air France or Rapid Rewards on Southwest. Copa Airlines is the exception and sells access to most passengers.

The link can carry one: low orbit puts latency around 20 to 50 ms, which behaves like ground broadband. Whether you may is the airline's decision, not the satellite's. Several carriers running Starlink still prohibit voice and video calls in the cabin, so each airline page states its own policy alongside the verdict.

Claims come from the airline's own pages and press releases and from SpaceX, and an announced deal never counts as flying. Rollout counts are shown only where a named source published one, with a label saying whether it came from the airline, the trade press or a public tracker, and the date it was published. Where nobody has published a count, this page says the rollout is under way rather than estimating a number.