United’s large Starlink Wi-Fi display Just hits some turbulence.
Many of the initial regional aircraft that have already been equipped with Starlink satellites have seen the service deactivated due to radio interference, TPG can inform exclusively.
Until now, United has installed Starlink in almost two dozen regional aircraft Erger E175, and in recent days, all flights operated by these planes have operated without internet connectivity.
As for why these airplanes are offline, the airline has received radio interference reports between the VHF antennas that pilots use to communicate with air traffic controls and Starlink antennas.
Specifically, the pilots have been informing static in the radio lines after completing radio transmissions on aircraft equipped with the new Starlink antennas.
As a precaution, United has turned off All Starlink in its fleet and since then it has been working with Starlink in a solution.
In a statement confirmed by the exclusive TPG report, a United Shared spokesman shared that “Starlink is now installed in a dozen United regional aircraft. United and Starlink teams are working together to address a small number of static interference reports during the Wi-Fi system operation, which is quite common with any new Wi-Fi supplier.
According to United, this type of radio interference is not uncommon by implementing new connectivity solutions to the aircraft on board. The airline also reiterated that this interference does not raise a flight safety problem.
In fact, when United launched Viasat connectivity in a part of its main fleet, it also experienced a similar type of interference that required a quick solution.
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The good news is that United and Starlink have already identified a solution for radio interference, and are actively working to implement it in the affected aircraft.
Until now, approximately one third of the affected aircraft have received the solution and once again they are flying with high-speed satellite Wi-Fi, while the remaining airplanes will be connected again after applying the solution.
United will not take out -service airplanes to apply these corrections; Instead, it will wait until the affected aircraft turn through regularly scheduled maintenance visits to apply the changes. (In this way, United will not need to cancel any flight to solve the interference problem).
Currently, United plans that Starlink forward in the affected airplanes during the next weeks, but keep in mind that this timeline could slide. Of course, this interruption will affect hundreds of summer flyers who could have been excited to try Starlink in United.
Until now, United has installed Starlink exclusively on the E175 regional plane, and this interference problem is not slowing down the planned operator deployment.
The airline will reconfigure 40 E175 aircraft more this month, and then begin to do the same in its CRJ-550 regional aircraft in the coming weeks.
The airline still plans to have all its fleet of regional aircraft United Express (the family of CRJ-550 and E175 aircraft) totally comforted by the end of the year.
The past fall, United announced that it would adapt all your fleet with high -speed Starlink connectivity. And the best part is that connectivity is free. All you need is a Millaja account to access the Internet on as many devices as you can carry on board.
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In mid -May, United flew his first income flights with Starlink, almost nine months since he made the bomb announcement that he would offer one of the best satellite internet solutions aboard his entire fleet.
With luck, this interference problem is simply a small increase in the way for Starlink facilities, because the existing Wi-Fi solutions of United are late for a large update.
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