{"id":404240,"date":"2026-04-12T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-atlantic-starlink-launch-may\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:50:37","slug":"virgin-atlantic-accelerates-starlink-launch-to-may-after-rival-ba-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404240","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic Accelerates Starlink Launch To May After Rival BA Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"129483\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-atlantic\/\"  >Virgin Atlantic<\/a><\/span> has brought forward its plans to equip its aircraft with Starlink Wi-Fi connectivity. The airline originally planned on introducing it during the third quarter (Q3) of this year, but the revised plan will see the airline&#8217;s first aircraft with Starlink in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of the third quarter of 2026, Virgin Atlantic is now aiming to have its first aircraft fitted with Starlink by early May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[566,396,476,1513,120,3903,701,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350-1000","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-europe","category-starlink","category-united-kingdom","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404243,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404240\/revisions\/404243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}