{"id":436151,"date":"2026-05-23T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-airways-starlink-5-planes-9-weeks-hangar-shortage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:20:44","slug":"british-airways-equips-just-5-planes-with-starlink-in-9-weeks-due-to-hangar-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=436151","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Equips Just 5 Planes With Starlink In 9 Weeks Due To Hangar Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> has equipped <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"181838\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/starlink\/\"  >Starlink<\/a><\/span> on just five aircraft since launching the free in-flight Wi-Fi service in March after facing apparent hangar availability problems. This averages at one aircraft every 12 days, despite Starlink&#8217;s hardware taking an average of just eight hours to install at other airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of fitting more than 300 aircraft with Starlink by March 2028 is in serious jeopardy.<\/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":[396,1513,4816,1883,3903,701,4646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-british-airways","category-inflight-connectivity","category-retrofit","category-starlink","category-united-kingdom","category-wifi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436151","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=436151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436152,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436151\/revisions\/436152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}