Emirates Starlink WiFi

Emirates announced its Starlink Aviation partnership in November 2025 and put its first Starlink-equipped Airbus A380 into service shortly afterwards — a notable milestone, as the A380 is the largest commercial passenger aircraft in operation and the most challenging to retrofit. The airline reports around 21 aircraft equipped from a fleet of roughly 260, an 8% headline figure, and has publicly committed to completing the rollout across its entire 232-aircraft passenger fleet by mid-2027. Emirates is unique in the Starlink rollout in that its fleet is entirely widebody; there are no narrow-bodies in the Emirates network, so every installation is on a long-haul aircraft. The fleet is built around two anchor types: roughly 118 Boeing 777-300ERs and 111 Airbus A380-800s, with smaller subfleets of 777-200LRs (25) and A350-900s (19) that began arriving in 2024. The A380 installation programme is the most prominent because of the type's size and the visibility of any change to the cabin product; the 777 fleet retrofit is running in parallel but receives less marketing attention. Tail-number tracking has not yet confirmed any of the airline-reported 21 equipped aircraft, reflecting both the recency of the announcement and the typical 6-to-12 month lag between an airline beginning installations and external tracking sources verifying them through flight monitoring. For passengers, Emirates is layering Starlink into its existing ICE — Information, Communication, Entertainment — connectivity suite rather than presenting it as a separate product. Pricing follows the established Emirates Wi-Fi tiered model rather than the free-for-everyone approach used by United or Hawaiian, with rates published at emirates.com that vary by route and cabin class. The connection itself, where available, replaces the older Inmarsat-based satellite Wi-Fi that has historically been mediocre on Emirates over the Pacific and Atlantic.