Alaska Airlines Moves Forward With Major Change for Customers

Over the past several months, airlines throughout the United States have been bolstering their internet connectivity options by partnering with SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service to offer lightning-fast internet connectivity to their customers. Now, Alaska Airlines is the latest to hop on that trend.

Over the weekend, Alaska Airlines and its partner Hawaiian Airlines announced that it is continuing to move forward with Starlink internet connectivity, which is already installed on nearly 150 aircraft across the combined operation.

Alaska Expands Starlink

While airlines have been offering in-flight internet connectivity for years, Starlink offers significantly faster internet than legacy Wi-Fi options. The service delivers median download speeds often exceeding 100–300 Mbps, which is enough bandwidth to stream live sports, play online games, and make video calls while flying.

Needless to say, it radically changes the experience for customers, and Alaska has been prioritizing adding it to its fleet.

Alaska Airlines has been radically expanding its Starlink connectivity recently, beginning the rollout late last year. Within a few months, Alaska became the first U.S. carrier to install Starlink across its entire regional jet fleet and is on track to bring the service to its entire widebody fleet this fall.

Alaska even rolled out a tracker tool that allows customers to check the progress of the airline's rollout of the lightning-fast Internet across its fleet.

Alaska Joins Other Airlines

Alaska is not the only airline to bolster its Wi-Fi offerings with Starlink. In fact, it has become quite a trend across the industry lately.

In addition to Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines bringing high-speed internet to their customers, United Airlines and boutique air carrier JSX have begun offering Starlink connections on flights, while Southwest Airlines and American Airlines are in the process of doing the same.

Delta Air Lines, however, continues to fall a bit behind in this area, choosing not to partner with Starlink. Instead, Delta decided to partner with Amazon's LEO service, which offers a similar product. However, it will not be available on flights until 2028.

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This story was originally published June 29, 2026 at 9:18 AM.