WiFi Odds · Alaska
Inflight WiFi as a forecast · figures checked daily · this build 25 Jul 2026
The forecast · tier B

Alaska inflight WiFi

55
ConnectScore mixed · ranked 8 of 18

Alaska scores 55 out of 100, which is mixed, and sits 8 of 18 on the board. The tails are verified one by one and nobody publishes which one is scheduled onto which departure, so this page answers by aircraft type and stops there.

type-resolved · 3 fleet segments over 350 aircraft with a published system, added up = 55 / 100

Reported · per-tail verification from alaskastarlinktracker.com (@martinamps), 25 JUL 2026 · quality weights from Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026

99 of 350 mainline + regional and installing fast. We publish alaskastarlinktracker.com's count; Alaska's own page says 142 of 384 group-wide, which folds in Hawaiian and leaves out the 11 737-700s. The ex-Hawaiian widebodies are counted under Hawaiian.

Today in figures

Where the rollout stands

as of 2026-07
99 / 350
Aircraft equipped
28% of the fleet carries Starlink.
Starlink
System
Low-earth orbit, which is the ceiling of the quality scale at 1.00.
free onboard
Cost onboard
Free-for-you factor 1.00.
55
ConnectScore
Band: mixed (18 airlines ranked).
The ledger · type-resolved

How the 55 is built

Every aircraft Alaska flies, by system, priced. The rows add up to the published ConnectScore, and the top row on its own is the next-gen number. The build fails if they stop adding up.

SegmentAircraftShareShare of the fleetQualityFreePoints
Starlink next-gen row
92 regional E175s and 7 mainline 737-8s, verified tail by tail.

Reported alaskastarlinktracker.com · 2026-07-25

9928.3%
1.001.0028.3
2Ku
Gogo 2Ku on the mainline 737s. Paid per flight.

Reported alaskaair.com inflight wifi page · 2026-07

24068.6%
0.550.7026.4
Gogo ATG-4
737-700s on Gogo ATG-4: 0.1–0.8 Mbps per device, but 260–310 ms. Messaging and email work, streaming does not.

Reported alaskaair.com inflight wifi page · 2026-07

113.1%
0.120.700.3
ConnectScore350100%55
Next-gen odds, the top row on its own28.3%28

350 aircraft with a published system. Segments come from a published fleet table by aircraft type. Points are shown to one decimal place; the unrounded rows sum to 54.95, which rounds to the published 55.

The playbook

What to do about it

Four things, in the order they become useful. Every one of them is available at tier B, which is the tier this page was derived at. Anything this fleet cannot support has been cut from the list.

Deeper

Per-flight odds for Alaska

The rollout page breaks this fleet down by sub-fleet, which is as narrow as verified tails get without a per-flight feed to count.

Alaska WiFi questions

Does Alaska have Starlink WiFi?

Alaska has Starlink on 99 of its 350 aircraft (28%) as of 2026-07, so it is a real possibility but not the default. Its ConnectScore is 55 out of 100, in the mixed band.

Is Alaska’s WiFi free?

On Alaska it is free onboard. ConnectScore multiplies the fleet share by a free-for-you factor, so a paid or unconfirmed free claim scores lower than the same fleet given away free.

How many Alaska planes have Starlink?

99 of 350, or 28% of the fleet. Verified tail by tail by alaskastarlinktracker.com (@martinamps).

ConnectScore is an expected value over a whole fleet, not a prediction about one flight: United measured 320, 56 and 15 Mbps on three systems in one livery in one reporting period. Aircraft whose system an airline does not publish are left out of the denominator rather than assumed. Signed-but-unflown deals (AA Starlink 2027, DL/B6 Amazon Leo) score zero until they fly.
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What the record cannot see

The ledger sees installs, and installs stop at the cabin door. If you flew Alaska this month, thirty seconds here is a data point nobody else has.

The captive portal usually names it.

Every submission lands unpublished and a person reads it before it appears here. No account, no cookie, no email field. The full form, with speed and latency boxes, is on the methodology page.

Reported Fleet and per-tail verification: alaskastarlinktracker.com (@martinamps), 25 JUL 2026. Quality weights: Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026. Full credit and citation →