Every airline we score, ordered by how much of its fleet is flying Starlink or Amazon Leo today — with the finish line each one has actually committed to in public. Four fleets are done. 11 are mid-retrofit, which is the only phase where per-flight odds mean anything. 3 have signed for hardware that is not in the air, and those score zero here until it is.
Read the two middle columns together. Next-gen today is the odds of drawing a low-earth-orbit aircraft on a flight that has not been assigned one yet. Today’s tier is what you get on the rest of the fleet, which is the part a single score hides: streaming-class is a working connection with lag, basic is email and messaging, and the two are not interchangeable on a four-hour transcon.
| Airline | Next-gen today | Today’s tier | Finish line |
|---|---|---|---|
| JSXXE | 100% Starlink | next-gen fleetwide | complete |
| airBalticBT | 100% Starlink | next-gen fleetwide | complete |
| ZIPAIRZG | 100% Starlink | next-gen fleetwide | complete |
| WestJetWS | 95% Starlink | next-gen fleetwide · rest streaming-class or basic | fleetwide install all but finished |
| Air FranceAF | 75% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | no public completion date |
| HawaiianHA | 69% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | widebody fit nearly complete |
| Qatar AirwaysQR | 58% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | no public completion date |
| SASSK | 49% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | no public completion date |
| AlaskaAS | 28% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | full completion targeted end-2027 |
| Virgin AtlanticVS | 28% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | no public completion date |
| UnitedUA | 27% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | 500+ mainline by end-2026, ~800 aircraft in total |
| EmiratesEK | 16% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | full widebody fleet by mid-2027; 150 aircraft targeted by end-2026 |
| Air CanadaAC | 6% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | no public completion date |
| British AirwaysBA | 2% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | PAUSED for summer 2026 |
| SouthwestWN | <1% Starlink | mixed · rest streaming-class or basic | ramping through summer 2026 |
| AmericanAA | 0% none flying | streaming-class · rest basic | installs begin Q1 2027 |
| DeltaDL | 0% none flying | streaming-class · rest basic | Amazon Leo from 2028 |
| jetBlueB6 | 0% none flying | streaming-class | Amazon Leo from 2027 |
18 airlines · fleet counts as of 2026-07-25 · finish lines from public announcements, July 2026 · nothing here is fetched live.
United is not the biggest next-gen share in the table and it is the fastest moving large fleet in it: 481 aircraft since Mar 14, 2025, express first, mainline catching up. It is also the only fleet anywhere with a public per-tail archive — which is why United is where the per-flight odds come from, and why every other airline’s curve gets read against this one.
481 aircraft equipped since Mar 14, 2025 — the shape every other fleet in the table is compared against.
See the timeline →One cell per 10 United aircraft: 48 of 181 cells lit, 481 of 1808 aircraft equipped.
One cell per 10 aircraft · 481 of 1,808 equipped (27%). The full floor is one cell per aircraft.
Open all 1,808 cells →60-route leaderboard · 53 cached routes in the optimizer.
Open the route optimizer →Alaska is instrumented too, one tier down: verified tails, no per-flight feed. Alaska’s rollout → · why that is a different kind of answer →
British Airways fitted five aircraft and stopped for the summer. A fleet-share percentage cannot tell you that on its own — the number just looks small. The date next to it is the part that matters, which is why every row above carries one.
American signed Starlink for 500+ Airbus aircraft; the Boeing fleet stays on Viasat under the current deal. So American’s odds may never converge on 100%, and the aircraft type on your itinerary will keep mattering there long after United’s stops mattering. Southwest is the other version of this: 817 aircraft is years of work at any believable rate.
Delta and jetBlue picked Amazon Leo, from 2028 and 2027. Both score 0 for next-gen odds today and both have genuinely good, free, streaming-class Viasat right now. Those two facts are not in tension — they are the reason this site shows two numbers instead of one. Starlink vs Amazon Leo, compared →