Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink
Ookla's new report focuses on consistency over speed, and airlines achieving over 90% speed consistency 'are almost exclusively serviced by Starlink.' That said, it's also pretty fast.
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An info-dense report published Tuesday shows that in-flight satellite broadband is faster than ever, thanks mainly to Starlink, but the aging onboard Wi-Fi networks relaying that connectivity to passengers' devices may now serve as spoilers. The latest in a series of studies from Ookla draws from runs of its Speedtest connection-benchmarking tool on flights during the second half of 2025 to hand first place to SpaceX's low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband. Ookla's primary metric in this report, unlike one released last June, was not speed but consistency, measured by reliably supporting downloads of at least 25Mbps and uploads of at least 3Mbps.
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