Delta Passed on Starlink’s Fast In-Flight Wi-Fi. United and Virgin Atlantic Are Already Seeing the Payoff

Starlink has been a game-changer for airlines like United. Delta partnered with Amazon Leo instead.

Doug Stoltz, director of cabin systems engineering at United Airlines, left, and Monal Merchant, director of TechOps Strategy at United Airlines, display a Starlink setup which will replace older broadband wi-fi on United Airlines flights. Photo: Getty Images

On the tarmac at Manchester Airport in the U.K., waiting to board Virgin Atlantic’s flight to Orlando, my iPhone managed 1.4 megabits per second over 5G. Checking again mid-flight, that number had increased to 282 megabits per second, routed through a satellite constellation a few hundred miles overhead. I spent........

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