United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights
United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights
https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125346
United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights
https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125346
Probably throttled for free and paid if you want the speed to stream video. Still though, I'd take that. Would be great for just checking messages and emails and stuff.
No such thing as free. It's in the price of your ticket. And indeed the upsell potential is enormous.
Remember when the assholes at United overbooked a flight and sent someone to knock a doctor's teeth out and carry him off a plane? The doctor refused since he was on his way to oversee the opening of a clinic he founded for veterans.
He and his wife started the clinic as a way to thank American servicemen and women, because he was plucked out of ocean waters by the U.S. Navy as he fled communism in his home country of Vietnam about 44 years ago, he said.
Yeah. This will make up for it. Fuck United Airlines.
So as a United flier(haven't flown for two months, though), I know that they provide the following free:
You have to pay extra(or sign in with t-mobile) to get in flight internet access.
I hope that this means that you'll get unrestricted internet access for free, instead of only a few apps and services.
What use is internet on a plane if you get beaten off of it by armed guards because United overbooked the flight?
*Note: Some United flights may now divert underground to give The Boring Company more tax breaks