Nobody wants their brand associated with price gouging and half-broken in-flight credit card payment portals, and Starlink is better enough than any alternative that they can play hardball with airlines.

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oceanplexian 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Delta is still stubbornly refusing to adopt Starlink.

I've got status with them and have started booking with other airlines b/c it doesn't matter how nice the seats are if you can't get any work done. Most airline revenue comes from business flights, I don't think they realize how important this is to their customer base.

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inemesitaffia 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Starlink failed it's Delta Demo.

The article is online.

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thinkling 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Delta uses Viasat and has been rolling out free wi-fi on more and more of their planes. Is it not usable?

	▲	lxgr 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It’s pretty good, but the latency is inherently high since Viasat is in GEO.

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supertrope 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It could just be the ESPN/gym membership/AAA business model. $ from every single passenger is more revenue than $$ from just those who click buy.

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light_hue_1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Nobody wants their brand associated with price gouging and half-broken in-flight credit card payment portals

The airlines have no problem with this. T-mobile has no problem with it either.

	▲	unsupp0rted 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nobody had a problem with flip phones that play snake or Blackberry physical keyboards until the iPhone was demonstrated, and then nobody could conceive of ever going back (except in niche cases, e.g. journalists loved those keyboards)
	▲	SR2Z 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		T-Mobile also offers free Wifi on airplanes.