{"id":48094,"date":"2025-11-06T22:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/international-airlines-group-to-implement-starlink-across-5-airlines\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:59:13","slug":"international-airlines-group-to-implement-starlink-across-5-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/international-airlines-group-to-implement-starlink-across-5-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"International Airlines Group to Implement Starlink Across 5 Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_399859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399859\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/airbus-a350-buggies-on-tarmac-lhr_16-9.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/airbus-a350-buggies-on-tarmac-lhr_16-9.avif 1440w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/airbus-a350-buggies-on-tarmac-lhr_16-9-300x169.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/airbus-a350-buggies-on-tarmac-lhr_16-9-800x450.avif 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/airbus-a350-buggies-on-tarmac-lhr_16-9-640x360.avif 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-399859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: British Airways<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>International Airlines Group <\/b>(IAG) signed a deal to implement <b>SpaceX<\/b>\u2019s Starlink in-flight connectivity (IFC) on more than 500 aircraft across five airlines \u2014&nbsp;<b>Aer Lingus<\/b>, <b>British Airways<\/b>,<b> Iberia<\/b>, <b>LEVEL<\/b> and <b>Vueling<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IAG announced the deal on Thursday, saying its fleet is on track to have more aircraft with high-speed Wi-Fi than any other European airline group. The deal is a major win for Starlink\u2019s IFC business, which includes other European customers Air France, Virgin Atlantic, and SAS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe introduction of high-speed Wi-Fi from Starlink will transform onboard connectivity, improving both the connection speed and reliability for customers,\u201d commented IAG CEO Luis Gallego. \u201cCustomers from all IAG airlines will be able to benefit from the service from next year. This demonstrates how IAG is working together as a group, to drive innovation and secure major deals to benefit all our stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British Airways plans to offer the service free for all customers, regardless of cabin. The airline said this is part of a 7 billion pound ($9 billion) transformation program to improve customer experience through investments in new planes, lounges, and technology to improve on-time departures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaunching Starlink on both our long-haul and short-haul aircraft is game-changing for us and our customers, elevating their experience on board our flights by offering them seamless connectivity from gate-to-gate. Especially on short-haul, this will really differentiate us from our competitors,\u201d British Airways CEO Sean Doyle said in a release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iberia also confirmed it will offer the service for free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: British Airways International Airlines Group (IAG) signed a deal to implement SpaceX\u2019s Starlink in-flight connectivity (IFC) on more than 500 aircraft across five airlines \u2014&nbsp;Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, LEVEL and Vueling.&nbsp; IAG announced the deal on Thursday, saying its fleet is on track to have more aircraft with high-speed Wi-Fi than any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}