{"id":306512,"date":"2025-10-15T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:50:16","slug":"first-united-flight-with-starlink-wi-fi-lands-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306512\/","title":{"rendered":"First United flight with Starlink Wi-Fi lands in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON <\/strong> \u2013 United Airlines marked a major milestone Wednesday when the first mainline flight offering Starlink Wi-Fi landed in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">United Flight 2940 took off from Newark\/New York and landed at Bush Intercontinental Airport at 10:35 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The flight was the first time a major U.S. airline has offered Starlink Wi-Fi on a mainline flight with connectivity both on personal devices and on inflight entertainment screens.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">United says it expects to install Starlink on 15 mainline 737-800 planes each month. By the end of the year, the airline expects to have an additional aircraft type certified to offer Starlink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re committed to raising the bar when it comes to the onboard experience, and with Starlink, we\u2019re changing how people fly,\u201d said David Kinzelman, United\u2019s Chief Customer Officer. \u201cWhether it\u2019s catching a live game, streaming an award show or working, United customers won\u2019t miss a beat when they\u2019re onboard a Starlink-equipped flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">United says it will install two Starlink antennas on each 737-800 aircraft. In total, the company is set to install nearly 2,940 antennas across its entire fleet, which is the same number as the flight number for the first customer flight offering Starlink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">United Airlines says Starlink Wi-Fi is free for United MileagePlus\u00ae members, and customers will receive a notification before their flight if it\u2019s equipped with Starlink.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 United Airlines marked a major milestone Wednesday when the first mainline flight offering Starlink Wi-Fi landed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[16849,4345,94132,358,3187,8975],"class_list":{"0":"post-306512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bush-intercontinental-airport","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-starlink-wi-fi","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-airlines"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115380632542559760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}