{"id":203280,"date":"2025-01-07T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/united-airlines-accelerates-plans-to-equip-fleet-with-musks-starlink-for-wi-fi"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:43:58","slug":"united-airlines-accelerates-plans-to-equip-fleet-with-musks-starlink-for-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/united-airlines-accelerates-plans-to-equip-fleet-with-musks-starlink-for-wi-fi","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines accelerates plans to equip fleet with Musk\u2019s Starlink for Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/united-airlines-accelerates-plans-to-equip-fleet-with-musks-starlink-for-wi-fi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/14\/united-airlines-starlink-free-wi-fi\/\">United Airlines is speeding up its timeline for connecting its fleet to Starlink,<\/a> Elon Musk\u2019s satellite network that provides high-speed internet around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The airline expects to begin testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starlink.com\/us\/technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starlink<\/a> in February with the first commercial flight anticipated in the spring on a United Embraer E-175 aircraft, used for regional flights. United plans to outfit its entire two-cabin regional fleet, about 200 planes, with the service by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>And United anticipates seeing its first Starlink-connected mainline aircraft take off before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines is speeding up its timeline for connecting its fleet to Starlink, Elon Musk\u2019s satellite network that provides high-speed internet around the globe. The airline expects to begin testing Starlink in February with the first commercial flight anticipated in the spring on a United Embraer E-175 aircraft, used for regional flights. United plans to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}