Mapped: Which Airlines Have Starlink WiFi? Every Carrier and Country (2026)

For two decades, airplane WiFi has been a punchline — slow, pricey, and barely good enough to load an email. That is changing fast. SpaceX’s Starlink, the low-Earth-orbit satellite network, is being bolted onto passenger jets at a remarkable pace, delivering ground-like speeds (often 200+ Mbps) at every seat — frequently for free.

In barely two years, Starlink has gone from a single semi-private US operator to more than 40 airlines based in over 20 countries. The map below shows where those carriers are headquartered — the home countries already flying Starlink, and the ones racing to install it.

The geography is lopsided but spreading quickly. North America launched the trend, the Middle East proved it on long-haul widebodies, and Europe — through two giant airline groups — is about to flip a whole continent at once. Here is who has it, and where they fly from.

Which airlines have Starlink WiFi

The table below lists the major carriers that have launched Starlink, are actively installing it, or have publicly committed to it. It is not exhaustive — new airlines are signing on almost monthly — but it captures the carriers driving the shift.

🇺🇸 North America: where it all started

The United States is the beating heart of the Starlink rollout. Tiny semi-private carrier JSX was the first airline anywhere to fly it, but United Airlines now has the largest deployment of any carrier on Earth, racing to equip its regional and mainline fleets. Hawaiian Airlines was the first major carrier to go fleet-wide, and Southwest begins service in summer 2026. American and Alaska have both signed on, with American planning Starlink on around 500 narrowbody jets from 2027.

North of the border, Canada‘s WestJet is installing Starlink and offering it free to its (free-to-join) Rewards members — a model many carriers are copying.

🇪🇺 Europe: the IAG and Lufthansa dominoes

Europe is set to leap ahead, not airline by airline but group by group. Spain-led IAG — owner of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and LEVEL — has committed to fitting Starlink on roughly 500 aircraft, instantly pulling in the UK and Ireland. The Lufthansa Group is doing the same across Germany, Switzerland (SWISS), Austria and Belgium, with Italy’s ITA Airways now in the fold too.

Smaller carriers got there first. Latvia‘s airBaltic was the first airline in Europe to fly Starlink, and France‘s Air France rolled it out on its A350s to glowing reviews. Scandinavian carrier SAS is installing it across its fleet.

🌍 Middle East & Asia-Pacific

The Qatari flag carrier Qatar Airways made the boldest early move, becoming the first airline to put Starlink on long-haul widebodies — its entire Boeing 777 fleet — and integrating it into the Qsuite experience. UAE giant Emirates is now installing Starlink across its A380 superjumbos.

In Asia-Pacific, Japan‘s low-cost long-haul carrier ZIPAIR was the first airline in Asia to fly a Starlink-equipped commercial flight. South Korea‘s Korean Air and the Hanjin group (Asiana, Air Busan, Air Seoul, Jin Air) have committed, and New Zealand‘s Air New Zealand is rolling it out on its fleet.

Why airlines are racing to Starlink

Three things make Starlink different. First, speed: low-Earth-orbit satellites sit far closer to the plane than the old geostationary ones, so latency is low enough for video calls and streaming. Second, capacity: it can serve a whole cabin at once, not just a handful of users. Third, economics: it is cheap enough that airlines can give it away, turning WiFi from a paid add-on into a loyalty tool. When one airline offers fast free internet, its rivals can’t afford not to — which is exactly why the list is snowballing.

Is it free, and what should you expect?

On most Starlink airlines the WiFi is free, though some (like WestJet) ask you to join a free loyalty programme first. Coverage follows Starlink’s satellite footprint, which now spans most of the world’s flight paths, and many carriers advertise gate-to-gate access — usable before takeoff and after landing. Real-world reviews have been strikingly positive, with passengers streaming and even video-calling mid-flight.

The bottom line

In-flight WiFi spent twenty years as something to complain about. In the span of two years, Starlink has rewritten the expectation — and the map of who offers it now stretches from Honolulu to Doha to Auckland. With Europe’s biggest airline groups about to switch on hundreds of jets, the real question is no longer which airlines have Starlink, but which ones still don’t.

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