SpaceX has signed its first deal with an air carrier to provide in-flight wireless internet using the Starlink satellite network.
The Elon Musk-owned company has been in talks for months with airlines to provide Starlink internet in-flight.
Starlink had focused on consumers and households in rural areas of the globe with little to no internet access.
The deal is with semi-private jet service JSX. Starlink will equip 100 airplanes with its terminals with the first Starlink-connected plane taking flight by year’s end.
Starlink offers broadband internet service to thousands of customers in a handful of countries for $110 a month using a $599 terminal dish roughly the size of a pizza box.
The Starlink-JSX deal will come at no charge to JSX customers, per Reuters.
In a statement, JSX said that tapping Starlink’s service will “not require logging in or other complexities associated with legacy systems.”
