Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
Hey HN, If you’ve been lucky enough to be on a flight with Starlink, you understand the hype. It actually works! However, its availability on flights is patchy and hard to predict. So we built a database of all airlines that have rolled out Starlink (beyond just a trial), and a flight search tool to predict it. Plug in a flight number and date, and we'll estimate the likelihood of Starlink on-board based on aircraft type and tail number. If you don’t have any trips coming up, you can also look up specific routes to see what flights offer Starlink. You can find it here: https://stardrift.ai/starlink . - I wanted to add a few notes on how this works too. There are three things we check, in order, when we answer a query: - Does this airline have Starlink? - Does this aircraft body have Starlink? - Does this specific aircraft have Starlink? Only a few airlines at all have Starlink right now: United, Hawaiian, Alaskan, Air France, Qatar, JSX, and a handful of others. So if an aircraft is op
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