Starlink Is Now Available on All Hawaiian Airlines Airbus Flights (cnet.com)
(Friday September 27, 2024 @03:00AM (BeauHD)
from the can-you-hear-me-now? dept.)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/09/27/0039207/starlink-is-now-available-on-all-hawaiian-airlines-airbus-flights
- Source link: https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/starlink-is-now-available-on-all-hawaiian-airlines-airbus-flights/
Hot on the heels of [1]United Airlines' Starlink announcement , Hawaiian Airlines [2]said it, too, is offering "fast and free Starlink Wi-Fi" [3]across its entire Airbus fleet . CNET reports:
> Hawaiian Airlines is now the first major carrier to use Elon Musk's satellite internet service, which taps more than 7,000 satellites in low earth orbit to deliver high-speed internet worldwide. "In Starlink's low earth orbit constellation of advanced satellites, the latest of which utilize a revolutionary laser mesh network, we found an ideal solution to ensure reliable, high-speed, low-latency Wi-Fi on transpacific flights," a Hawaiian Airlines representative told CNET. "Working with Starlink has allowed us to offer a fast and consistent in-flight connectivity experience that meets our high standard for guest service."
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> The company first debuted Starlink on its planes in February on a flight from Honolulu to Long Beach, California. It first struck a deal with Starlink in 2022 and has now completed installation across its entire Airbus fleet, which includes 24 A330 planes and 18 A321neos. Hawaiian Airlines will also deploy the service on its two Boeing 787-9 planes, but not its Boeing 717 aircraft, which are used on shorter flights between the Hawaiian Islands.
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/13/1520205/united-airlines-taps-starlink-for-free-in-flight-wi-fi
[2] https://newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com/releases/hawaiian-airlines-now-offering-fast-and-free-starlink-wi-fi-across-entire-airbus-fleet
[3] https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/starlink-is-now-available-on-all-hawaiian-airlines-airbus-flights/
> Hawaiian Airlines is now the first major carrier to use Elon Musk's satellite internet service, which taps more than 7,000 satellites in low earth orbit to deliver high-speed internet worldwide. "In Starlink's low earth orbit constellation of advanced satellites, the latest of which utilize a revolutionary laser mesh network, we found an ideal solution to ensure reliable, high-speed, low-latency Wi-Fi on transpacific flights," a Hawaiian Airlines representative told CNET. "Working with Starlink has allowed us to offer a fast and consistent in-flight connectivity experience that meets our high standard for guest service."
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> The company first debuted Starlink on its planes in February on a flight from Honolulu to Long Beach, California. It first struck a deal with Starlink in 2022 and has now completed installation across its entire Airbus fleet, which includes 24 A330 planes and 18 A321neos. Hawaiian Airlines will also deploy the service on its two Boeing 787-9 planes, but not its Boeing 717 aircraft, which are used on shorter flights between the Hawaiian Islands.
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/13/1520205/united-airlines-taps-starlink-for-free-in-flight-wi-fi
[2] https://newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com/releases/hawaiian-airlines-now-offering-fast-and-free-starlink-wi-fi-across-entire-airbus-fleet
[3] https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/starlink-is-now-available-on-all-hawaiian-airlines-airbus-flights/
I buy internet access on all flights (Score:2)
by linuxguy ( 98493 )
I think most of the Internet access on planes in the US use ground based towers. And it is a total crapshoot. Some places you get really good access. Other places. Nothing. I do a lot of traveling, and if I am stuck on a plane for hours, I might as well use that time to get stuff done. But, the current state of affairs makes it quite challenging. Hopefully Starlink gets adopted by more airlines and change things for the better.
BTW, I don't mind paying $10-$15 per flight for Internet access. If it w
Hopefully this makes all airlines (Score:1)
Get rid of stupid $50 flight long internet access. Such a stupid fee.
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The airlines I use typically have about $8 or $10 fee for the whole flight, which if anything is even more stupid. Just charge everyone $3 and switch it on already.
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The small fee probably helps discourage the worst offenders, who would be making hours long Skype calls and the like.
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They are flight long fees. Why would you think someone is willing to pay a small fee to say use facebook, but draws the line at a skype call?
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I actually got in-flight wifi for free once. It was not all that useful... After shitposting to Slashdot and reading some news, I ran out of stuff to amuse myself fairly quickly. I suppose I could have streamed some video or something, but do the maths... a couple of hundred people and a connection that can only manage a couple of hundred megabits per second... And it's actually worse than that, because with so many users the bottleneck will likely be the upload speed thanks to how TCP/IP works.
I usually ju
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Nah. People who want to sit on Skype or stream cat videos the entire flight won't be discouraged by that.
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Cat videos I have no issue with, it's having a conversation with someone who isn't sat next to them that is the problem.
Actually the worst would probably be some arsehole with an Apple Vision Pro. Seat power keeps it going all flight, with them gesticulating for hours on end to control the thing.