How fast United Airlines is actually installing Starlink — and whether the stated targets hold at that pace.
As of August 31, 2026, 550 of 1,654 tracked United Airlines aircraft (33%) have Starlink, with installs averaging ~44.7/month over the last three complete months.
One day excluded as a bulk import (2025-12-03: 121) — too many aircraft on one date to be installs, so they'd read as a spike the fleet never had.
Pace counts only dated, organically observed installs. Seed batches and type-rule backfills are excluded by source, and any single date carrying far more aircraft than the fleet installs in a day is dropped as an import and named above — so a data backfill doesn't read as an install spike. Projections are straight-line extrapolations of the trailing three complete months; below ~0.5 installs/month we say "too early to call" instead of projecting. Counts shown for "share of the fleet" targets are computed from this tracker's roster and labelled as such — only figures an airline actually published are attributed to it, with the date the airline stated it. A target stated over more than one carrier's fleet is measured against those carriers' combined roster on both sides of the ratio. How the underlying data is verified →