{"id":427203,"date":"2026-05-13T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-rejected-starlink-branding-united-fleet\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:05:54","slug":"delta-rejected-starlink-over-branding-now-uniteds-fleet-is-years-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=427203","title":{"rendered":"Delta Rejected Starlink Over Branding &#8211; Now United&#8217;s Fleet Is Years Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investor of SpaceX has revealed that the reason why the network connectivity deal between <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> and Starlink fell apart previously was that the airline wanted to prioritize its own brand and provide internet connectivity to passengers via the Delta Sync portal, instead of the Starlink-branded portal. The airline has since chosen to partner with Amazon&#8217;s equivalent of low-latency network connectivity &#8211; Amazon LEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While United plans to equip its entire fleet with Starlink in 2027, the first of Delta&#8217;s aircraft will only receive Amazon LEO connectivity in 2028!<\/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":[396,565,1916,3903,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-delta-air-lines","category-inflight-wifi","category-starlink","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427203","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=427203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427215,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427203\/revisions\/427215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}