{"id":493588,"date":"2026-07-31T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/emirates-quietly-ripping-viasat-off-new-airbus-a350s-standarize-starlink\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:00:11","slug":"emirates-is-quietly-ripping-viasat-off-its-new-airbus-a350s-to-standardize-on-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=493588","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Is Quietly Ripping Viasat Off Its New Airbus A350s To Standardize On Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emirates\u2019 rapid adoption of Starlink has become one of the biggest connectivity stories in commercial aviation, but the headline achievement is not simply that more than one million passengers have connected to Wi-Fi in the sky. The more revealing development is the quiet engineering shift taking place behind the scenes, as the carrier, based at Dubai International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DXB), moves away from traditional satellite connectivity systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dubai-based carrier is still receiving deliveries of Airbus A350s.<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,1123,396,476,1157,919,1695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-airbus-a350-900","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-dubai-international-airport","category-emirates","category-middle-east"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t