Airlines compete on WiFi quality

Airlines are investing in high-speed in-flight WiFi as a key amenity to attract customers, moving beyond priority boarding and extra legroom as differentiators.

Skytrax ranks WiFi for first time

Skytrax added a World's Best Onboard WiFi category to its World Airline Awards to reflect the importance of fast and free onboard connectivity to customer experience.

“to reflect the importance to today's customer experience of fast and free onboard connectivity”

Survey covers over one hundred nationalities

The ranking was determined by surveying passengers from over one hundred nationalities between September twenty twenty-five and August twenty twenty-six in the world's largest airline passenger satisfaction survey.

Starlink dominates top ten list

Of the top ten airlines recognized for best in-flight WiFi, seven have partnerships with Starlink. Over forty carriers worldwide have partnered with the company, which provides streaming-quality WiFi via over eleven thousand satellites.

Qatar Airways wins inaugural award

Qatar Airways won Skytrax's inaugural World's Best Onboard WiFi award. All of Qatar Airways' Boeing seven seventy-sevens and Airbus A three fifty aircraft feature Starlink, with expansion to its Boeing seven eighty-seven fleet underway.

Delta chooses Amazon Leo instead

Delta Air Lines chose not to partner with Starlink and will offer Amazon Leo, which operates around four hundred low-orbit satellites, starting in twenty twenty-eight.

“I'm a big fan of Starlink. I'm a fan of what Elon does. I drive a Tesla.”