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Geostationary satellite latency has constrained commercial in-flight Wi-Fi for decades, forcing signal round-trips measured in hundreds of milliseconds and making anything interactive effectively unusable at altitude.
SpaceX's Starlink, operating in low Earth orbit and delivering throughput that scales to a full aircraft cabin, offers a different architecture for that problem.
Frontier Airlines has signed with Starlink to bring the service aboard its fleet, with an in-flight Wi-Fi debut targeted for as early as 2027.
Why LEO changes the in-flight calculation The mechanism behind geostationary latency is fixed orbital altitude.
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