United is accelerating the rollout of Starlink Wi-Fi with a Boeing 777-200 on the New York-London route becoming the first of the carrier\u2019s transatlantic widebody customer flight equipped with technology, and the first of nearly 60 United widebody aircraft expected to have it this year.<\/p>\n
Around 400 United planes have Starlink today, and the airline expects to outfit close to 1,000 aircraft before the end of this year. The airline now expects to have its entire widebody fleet outfitted by next summer.<\/p>\n
READ:\u00a0United CEO: \u2018I recognised a United\/American merger would attract a lot of skepticism\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUnited is changing what it means to stay connected on an overseas flight,\u201d said David Kinzelman, United\u2019s Chief Customer Officer. \u201cStarlink offers the same fast, reliable internet access and connectivity we\u2019re all used to at home, delivered in the air at 35,000 feet, flying anywhere around the world. This technology has the potential to transform how we think about the inflight experience for both our customers and our employees.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post United\u2019s Starlink roll-out accelerates<\/a> appeared first on Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United is accelerating the rollout of Starlink Wi-Fi with a Boeing 777-200 on the New York-London route becoming the first of the carrier\u2019s transatlantic widebody customer flight equipped with technology, and the first of nearly 60 United widebody aircraft expected to have it this year. Around 400 United planes have Starlink today, and the airline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}