American scores 51 out of 100, which is mixed, and sits 11 of 18 on the board. Nobody publishes per-tail data for this fleet, so this is a number about the airline and nothing narrower. The signed deal below counts zero until hardware flies.
Reported · fleet state compiled from public American announcements, Jul 2026 · quality weights from Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026
Free Viasat/Intelsat on ~90% of the fleet today. Airbus-only Starlink from 2027. Boeing stays Viasat.
American has starlink signed from 2027-Q1 (500+ Airbus aircraft signed). ConnectScore counts zero for hardware that is not flying yet, because a deal you cannot connect to is not connectivity.
51installs begin 2027-Q1FIRM
Reported Runway Girl Network, 2026-05-26: American pivots to Starlink for 500+ Airbus narrowbodies, 26 MAY 2026.
That is the next-gen number this fleet would carry if the deal lands as announced: 500 of 989 aircraft committed × 1.00 low-earth orbit × 1.00 free-for-you. A committed share of the fleet, not a measurement. None of them are flying it yet. It is grey by rule, it sorts nothing, and it never appears without the date beside it. All four projections, and the rules →
Every aircraft American 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.
| Segment | Aircraft | Share | Share of the fleet | Quality | Free | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viasat or Intelsat Free for everyone. American names both systems and publishes no split, but both are modern GEO on the measured numbers, so the range does not widen. Reported American free-wifi announcement; RGN, 2026-05-26 · 2026-07 | 890 | 90.0% | 0.55 | 1.00 | 49.5 | |
| Panasonic The widebodies, explicitly excluded from the free offer. Reported American onboard wifi page · 2026-07 | 99 | 10.0% | 0.22 | 0.70 | 1.5 | |
| ConnectScore | 989 | 100% | 51 | |||
| Next-gen odds, the top row on its own | 0.0% | 0 |
989 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 51.04, which rounds to the published 51.
Unpublished splits: Viasat or Intelsat (890 aircraft). American free-wifi announcement; RGN, 2026-05-26 would settle it.
Four things, in the order they become useful. Every one of them is available at tier D, which is the tier this page was derived at. Anything this fleet cannot support has been cut from the list.
Aircraft assignments firm up roughly 48 hours before departure and they can still move up to pushback. Whatever this page says today, the answer for your flight is more settled then.
American publishes an amenity marker against each flight in its own booking flow, and that marker is about the aircraft now assigned to it. It is the closest thing to a per-flight answer this fleet has. The airline is asserting it; nobody has verified the install.
Nobody has load-tested a full cabin on any of these systems, so a good score is not a promise about the hour you fly. Downloading the deck is the move that makes the odds stop mattering.
American has Viasat on 890 of its 989 aircraft (90%) as of 2026-07, so it is close to a sure thing. Its ConnectScore is 51 out of 100, in the mixed band.
On American 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.
890 of 989, or 90% of the fleet. Compiled from public airline announcements, July 2026.
Everything on this page comes from what American has published about its own fleet. Nobody has published what it was like in the seat. If you flew American this month, thirty seconds here is a data point nobody else has.
Reported Fleet state compiled from public American announcements, Jul 2026. Quality weights: Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026. Full credit and citation →