Starlink for Aviation

Re:Starlink for Aviation by TulliusCicero on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:35AM (#33257713)

I think the economics would probably work out for longer international flights. I fly economy with my family and I'd probably be willing to dump out $20/passenger for flights from Seattle to Japan/Europe, considering you're stuck in a seat for like 10 hours. That seems like it'd make long flights quite a bit nicer at a reasonable cost.

Alternatively being able to work more means I don't have to burn as many vacation days just on the transiting parts of travel.

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Re:Starlink for Aviation by JCharante on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:08AM (#33258694)

I started boycotting Korean Air. Supposedly the reason why they don’t have wifi is that Koreans are used to great internet service, so it’s better not to have any wifi on their planes than to have slow internet.

I didn’t realize how addicted to the internet I was until I did a 15 hour flight from Boston to Incheon in the spring. Never again. I’ll gladly fly Delta instead.

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Re:Starlink for Aviation by TulliusCicero on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:55PM (#33267199)

I wouldn't say I'm addicted, I can manage okay on flights as it is with TV shows/movies/video games/books that I download ahead of time onto various devices. Especially the Switch is very nice, and of course the Steam Deck is probably great for this.

But yeah having internet would be even better.

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