2025-03-07 23:56:45

United Airlines Installed Starlink in Its First Plane for Free in-Flight Wi-Fi

This might be enough to get me to voluntarily fly United Airlines if it A) were more widespread than the one regional airplane into which they’ve installed it, and B) Starlink wasn’t owned by the most cringeworthy, deeply uncool billionaire villain since Quantum of Solace. Anywho, it’s just the start of things for America’s second-most […] The post United Airlines Installed Starlink in Its First Plane for Free in-Flight Wi-Fi appeared first on VICE.
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