Hawaiian Airlines is officially rolling out Wi-Fi to passengers in a company first.

It's doing so with SpaceX.

It marks the first time a major U.S. commercial airline has has deployed the Starlink service and the

milestone is almost two years in the making. For Hawaiian Airlines CEO and

President Peter Ingram it's an opportunity to leapfrog the connectivity

options that until now have existed.

You know, it's another challenge that guests have faced when they want to use connectivity on airplanes is traditionally it has been priced very high.

Part of that is because of the cost of providing it,

but part of that candidly is because with those less capable systems,

people really don't want you using it all that much because if too many people

are logged on on using it it's not going to perform very well and SpaceX has

really cracked the code literally in terms of the technology to be able to deliver wide bandwidth

of very high quality connectivity to an airplane with a global reach. The first commercial flight of the first Starlink

equipped aircraft is happening today, but more jets will come online in the coming months.

For SpaceX, it's another opportunity to reach more customers,

including more enterprises, which is what Chad Gibbs SpaceX's VP of Starling

Business Operations is focused on. It really feels like an experience that should not be possible

when you get on a commercial airline flight and you're able to connect to the

internet and experience it in a way that's similar if not better than what you can experience in your own home.

With more than 5,200 satellites in low Earth orbit and millions of residential users, Starlink

service is rapidly expanding and businesses are striking deals as well

from telecom companies to cruise ship operators and machinery makers like Deer which

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