Volaris will be the first Mexico-based airline to offer passengers Starlink satellite Wi-Fi

Low-cost hose Volaris volition soon go the archetypal Mexican bearer to connection Starlink outer Wi-Fi connected committee its flights.

Starlink, SpaceX’s outer network, is known for allowing users to browse the Internet arsenic if they were connected the ground. In the sky, users tin text, marque video calls, perceive to music, enactment remotely, oregon ticker streaming content.

First, we changed the mode Mexico flies. Now, we’re changing what flying feels like. The fastest Wi-Fi successful the entity is coming aboard with @Starlink

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— Volaris (@viajaVolaris) July 14, 2026

Starlink’s vantage is that it operates via satellites successful debased Earth orbit (LEO), overmuch person to the satellite than older systems, shortening information question distance, cutting effect clip delay, and utilizing level astute antennas to way moving connections.

Volaris expects to person Starlink’s Internet disposable crossed its full fleet by 2027. But it has not specified whether entree volition beryllium escaped for each passengers, linked to a loyalty program, oregon person an further cost.

The rollout volition encompass much than 150 Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, connected some home and planetary routes. 

This announcement is portion of a broader strategy by Indigo Partners — Volaris’s holding institution — which besides includes JetSMART, Wizz Air, Frontier, and Cebu Pacific. Collectively, these airlines program to instal Starlink connected much than a 1000 craft worldwide.

Unlike different connectivity models, the work won’t beryllium managed by the airline, but straight by Starlink done its ain system. 

Beyond improving rider experience, the exertion seeks to amended connection betwixt craft and crushed personnel, expect attraction needs earlier they go failures and amended respond to unforeseen events.

Said Volaris caput Enrique Beltranera, “The airline’s ultra-low-cost exemplary goes manus successful manus with an exceptional question experience, which continues to germinate successful enactment with our customers’ expectations.”

With reports from Aviación Online and ADN 40