Software Engineering Daily · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The seamless connectivity of Starlink on airplanes has been impacted by airlines requiring login interstitial screens, a change that appears to be dictated by the airlines rather than Starlink itself. This means users may need to log in with airline membership details, altering the previously effortless connection experience.
“But yeah, that used to be super seamless with like no login screens and that was like, I believe, dictated by Starlink, but they've apparently had to cave in to airlines wanting to put like a login interstitial for that.”
“So, yeah, I mean, it's such a trivial thing, but like expecting Starlink to just connect and then suddenly I found the airline saying, hey, if you need to log in with your membership number and I thought, oh, what's happened here?”
“But yeah, still, you just have to log in with your Qatar membership number now.”