Pip: today's word is fleet! Professor Wobble: American Airlines will put Starlink internet on its whole fleet. Bitsy: the whole fleet? How many? Wobble: in May, five hundred Airbus jets; now, more than a thousand planes. Bitsy: why all of them? Pip: the plan grew, half became all! Mort: installing starts next year, pack a book. Pip: brought to you by the number one thousand!
American Airlines now intends to put Starlink satellite internet on its entire mainline fleet, more than 1,000 aircraft by the airline's count, extending a plan that already covered roughly half of it, the more than 500 Airbus jets it announced in May, with installation starting next year.
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The New York Times Business · Oct 9, 2026
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