Hawaiian Airlines has begun deploying Starlink Wifi on a select number of its flights

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Hawaiian touts not just that the service is fast and free, but the ease of connecting. And that's exactly what it was: easy, similar to connecting at home. Passengers just need to choose the Starlink Wifi network. Nothing needs to be agreed to, there is no package to choose, no information to input and no need to add a credit card.

And there was almost nothing my son and I couldn't do in-flight that we do at home. Watch Netflix -- check. Play video games on my son's Nintendo Switch -- check. That was in addition to web browsing that included watching some promotional videos for Hawaii excursions that streamed with no problem. We noticed no glitches at all. I was also able to download and upload files as I normally do.

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It's worth noting that this performance was on an almost-full flight, so I assume there was a high degree of demand. And this flight was entirely over the Pacific Ocean, heading to one of the most geographically remote islands in the world.

Hawaiian's Wifi was especially impressive in comparison with some recent in-flight WiFi experiences I've had. These include a flight to Los Angeles from Newark where the in-flight team apologized for having to restart the system three times and an entire 4-hour domestic flight where the WiFi didn't work at all.

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