Emirates scores 31 out of 100, which is long shot, and sits 15 of 18 on the board. Nobody publishes per-tail data for this fleet, so this is a number about the airline and nothing narrower.
Reported · fleet state compiled from public Emirates announcements, Jul 2026 · quality weights from Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026
36 of 232 so far, free onboard. The widebody retrofit is early and the rest of the fleet is older Ku.
Every aircraft Emirates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlink next-gen row Ookla measured Emirates at 308.65 Mbps in 2H 2025, second only to United's Starlink fleet. Reported Emirates Starlink retrofit announcements · 2026-07 | 36 | 15.5% | 1.00 | 1.00 | 15.5 | |
| Panasonic or Thales FlytLIVE Emirates has had wifi fleetwide for years and names both systems. It publishes neither the split nor a current price, so this row takes the 0.85 unconfirmed factor rather than an assumed free. Reported Emirates connectivity page · 2026-07 | 196 | 84.5% | 0.22 to 0.55 | 0.85 | 15.8 to 39.5 | |
| ConnectScore We publish the floor. The ceiling is 55, and the gap is the part of the fleet whose split nobody has published. | 232 | 100% | 31 to 55 | |||
| Next-gen odds, the top row on its own | 15.5% | 16 |
232 aircraft with a published system. Every system on the fleet is named and the counts are not published, so the score is a range. Points are shown to one decimal place; the unrounded rows sum to 31.32, which rounds to the published 31.
Unpublished splits: Panasonic or Thales FlytLIVE (196 aircraft). Emirates connectivity page would settle it.
Four things, in the order they become useful. Every one of them is available at tier C, 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.
Emirates 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.
Roughly 16% of the fleet carries Starlink today, so a different departure is a real second draw. Whether that is worth doing is a question about the change fee on your fare, and it is cheaper to know the answer before the gate than at it.
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.
Emirates has Starlink on 36 of its 232 aircraft (16%) as of 2026-07, so it is still unlikely on a random flight. Its ConnectScore is 31 out of 100, in the long shot band.
On Emirates 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.
36 of 232, or 16% of the fleet. Compiled from public airline announcements, July 2026.
Everything on this page comes from what Emirates has published about its own fleet. Nobody has published what it was like in the seat. If you flew Emirates this month, thirty seconds here is a data point nobody else has.
Reported Fleet state compiled from public Emirates announcements, Jul 2026. Quality weights: Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026. Full credit and citation →