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would you choose a flight that's $200 more expensive because it has starlink?
by 8note 6mo ago
would you choose a flight that's $200 more expensive because it has starlink?
- koolba 6mo agoMaybe not $200, but $20-$50 for a cross country flight for sure.
- ghaff 6mo agoI wouldn’t. I have literally never bought WiFi on a flight in the course of probably hundreds of flights. Good opportunity to unplug.
- kalleboo 6mo agoIf a flight had in-flight Wi-Fi that cost $50 you'd pay for it? Most people I know balk at $10 even on an intercontinental flight
- ac29 6mo ago$10/hr for high speed internet on a flight doesn't seem that bad if you have a good use for it. A single drink can be more
- wnc3141 6mo agoNo but the airline might choose starlink. I think a gogo business install is on the hundreds of thousands and annual costs in the tens of thousand for their Eutelesat based system.
- telotortium 6mo agoIf I’m flying for work and Starlink is that much better, quite possibly. My wife’s experience with other in-flight WiFi providers has been quite poor, often to the point that it barely works. Having said that, neither of us has been on a flight with Starlink yet.
- raw_anon_1111 6mo agoWhich airline? Airlines have been moving away from land based WiFi to much faster satellite WiFi for years
- telotortium 6mo agoIn this case, it was United, almost all transpacific flights. I've read that United has started to move to Starlink, but only on a few flights so far.