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United gives you free access only if you are a mileageplus member I think? Regardless, having free high speed internet on a flight will motivate me as a consumer every time.
Joining United MileagePlus is completely free, you just sign up. About the same work as filling out a hotel wifi login.
But you need to give personal information which also has value.
One nice thing about Starlink is that they force the airlines to offer it for free. I’m not sure why SpaceX is doing this, but it was surprising enough to me that my international WiFi was not only fast, but completely free that I researched it.
> I’m not sure why SpaceX is doing this One word: marketing.
Looking forward to Starlink on UK trains. I frequently have to go basically without internet for a couple of hours.
Two questions: how stale does the tail assignment data get in practice, and do you have a way to detect when an enthusiast spreadsheet goes unmaintained? And what happens to your probability estimate when an airline swaps aircraft last minute, which seems to happen pretty often on regional routes?
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Joining United MileagePlus is completely free, you just sign up. About the same work as filling out a hotel wifi login.
Completely free as in you don't have to give them money. But you need to give personal information which also has value.
Neat problem to work on. The tail number lookup is the hard part and it sounds like you solved it the right way, by finding the people who actually track this obsessively rather than trying to scrape it yourself. Two questions: how stale does the tail assignment data get in practice, and do you have a way to detect when an enthusiast spreadsheet goes unmaintained? And what happens to your probability estimate when an…
> how stale does the tail assignment data get in practice, and do you have a way to detect when an enthusiast spreadsheet goes unmaintained?
These are updated almost every day so far, so they seem very up-to-date. Internally we track all changes/removals, so I'm not that worried about spreadsheets being abandoned yet. It's a good thought though.
> And what happens to your probability estimate when an airline swaps aircraft last minute, which seems to happen pretty often on regional routes?
Honestly our estimate right now is pretty crude. At the scale we're at right now it works, but I think you're right that we could make this more accurate by tracking equipment swaps & really drilling into the details of which aircraft get assigned to which routes.
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Completely free as in you don't have to give them money. But you need to give personal information which also has value.
More personal information than you provide them to purchase the ticket to use the free starlink?
I wish my bloody commuter train into London had Starlink. Even when the onboard wifi works you are limited to 100mb of traffic. I get a better 5g signal on the Jubilee line than I do on an overground train.