Air France Starlink WiFi

Air France announced its Starlink Aviation partnership in September 2025 and is in the early stages of a fleet-wide rollout across one of Europe's largest commercial fleets. The airline reports around 30 aircraft equipped from a fleet of approximately 220 — roughly 14% coverage — though tail-number tracking is still catching up to the airline-reported numbers and currently confirms substantially fewer. Air France is approaching the rollout in line with its mainline-and-regional fleet structure: short-haul Embraer 190s and Airbus A220-300s have been the priority, with widebody A350-900s and Boeing 777-300ERs entering the programme through 2026. The rollout's first phase concentrates on the Air France Hop regional fleet — the Embraer 170/190 and A220 sub-fleets that operate domestic French and intra-European services from Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly. These types are easier to retrofit during overnight maintenance and provide visible early customer wins on a high-volume short-haul network. The second phase moves to the mainline narrow-body A320 family on European trunks, and the third phase to the long-haul A350-900, 777-300ER, 777-200 and 787-9 widebodies that fly Air France's transatlantic, African and Asian networks. For passengers, Air France's Starlink pricing model is following its existing tiered Wi-Fi structure, with rates that vary by route published at airfrance.com rather than the free model adopted by Hawaiian, United or WestJet. The connection itself, on equipped airframes, delivers the typical Starlink speed profile — significantly faster than the older Inmarsat-based Wi-Fly system Air France has used previously. As coverage expands through 2026, route-level predictability will improve; for now the experience varies widely by which airframe is assigned on the day.