United Airlines inaugurates a new era on travel with the introduction of the Starlink satellite internet connection aboard its planes. Free, fast like light and working from the entrance to the exit: this is no longer the future, this is reality. Welcome to an era in which “plane mode” is only a nostalgic memory. Starlink: Elon Musk’s company brings the entertainment aboard the planes.
Starlink brings the revolution. For many years it was Airplane mode on the phone It meant a sacred digital sanctuary. No Ping Slack. Nobody Zoom calls. Only you and that shameful moviethat you have always wanted to look but you have never admitted. Well, enjoy this freedom until it lasts. United Airlines It is with the help of Spacex Starlink just reset the rules of the game. Starlink: Elon Musk’s company brings entertainment aircraft and a better internet connection than what many people have at home.
Internet in the sky: the wireless revolution imagined by Elon Musk
United is not the first airline to experiment Starlink: this honor belongs to Hawaiian Airlines. A is the first large American company that has equipped all 1,026 planes of its fleet with this technology. The beginning? May 15, 2025, with a flight between Chicago and Detroit. The trial flight to Chicago was also a show in itself: the CEOs served snacks, the influencers broadcast live streaming, while Disney+ and Tiktok flowed into the cabin.
128 Megabit per second. In the air. Free.
Yes, you read well. average speed Data transfer during the flight: 128 Mbps. Loading? 24 Mbps. Delay? Less than 20 ms. These are numbers that most of the home networks are unable to manage, and are now also available at 10,000 feet in height from the ground. But don’t worry: video calls are not allowed. Not for technical limits, but because nobody wants to know how you relationships with the team on Monday.
All you need is a free registration
Access to Starlink Wifi It is subject to free registration to the United loyalty program MileagePlus. You will no longer have to pay $ 10 for access or run around for Wi-Fi codes. Just connect, click and navigate. You can even connect multiple devices simultaneously (laptop, tablet and cell phone) without noticing any drop in speed.
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Say goodbye
But every technological progress also brings something tragic with it: the end of the apologies. You will no longer be able to say that you have been “unreachable in the air”. No, now your boss will expect you to answer Slack even during the flight. Now it will be possible to make zooms even while flying over the Nebraska.
United states that video calls will not be allowed and that the contents will be filtered, but the reality is that the sky will become the new coworking space. With a better view, but with the same feeling of being trapped.
Conclusion: the future flies with us
United and Starlink united forces to create something that only a few years ago seemed science fiction. And while technological progress confuse the boundaries between earth and air, we must ask ourselves: do we really want work to flight with us? We can only say: welcome to the future, where even the sky will not be a limit, especially when it comes to bandwidth.
