American Airlines extends Starlink Wi-Fi roll-out to entire mainline fleet

Oct 8 (Reuters) - ‌American Airlines ​said ​on Thursday it now intends to install SpaceX's Starlink ‌satellite internet service on its entire ⁠primary fleet of over 1,000 aircraft ‌from next year, extending ‌a plan already in place for roughly half of the fleet.

• ​American Airlines in May had said it plans to install ⁠Starlink on more than 500 Airbus aircraft beginning ​next year

• The roll-out will now include over 530 Boeing aircraft ​as well

• The ‌Starlink-equipped fleet will use SpaceX's Performance Aero Terminal, an ⁠aircraft-mounted satellite internet antenna system

• The terminal is capable of delivering speeds ⁠of up to 1 gigabit per second, ​the airline said

• The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed

• The carrier ‌operates a mainline fleet of more than 1,030 aircraft

• ‌Over 900 are single-aisle planes, ⁠and the rest ‌are widebody ​aircraft

(Reporting by Megavarshini G. Somasundaram in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal ‌Muhammed)

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