Earlier this week, I woke up my phone and opened the YouTube app, watching some sports highlights, before switching to Netflix and finishing an old episode of Arrested Development. It was wholly unremarkable, save for the fact that we were cruising at 32,000 feet.
United Airlines is in the midst of installing Starlink internet across its fleet, and this was a demo flight, meant to demonstrate how the SpaceX-powered satellite internet service can deliver broadband as fast as you can get at home, even when cruising at 580 miles per hour six miles above the earth.
But United’s push to bring free high-speed internet to its aircraft also underscores what will become a new reality as other airlines follow: The streaming wars will soon take to the skies.
Flyers, once limited to what was licensed on the seatback screens (assuming they were even on a plane that
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