JetBlue to offer free inflight Wi-Fi via Amazon Kuiper in 2027

JetBlue and Amazon announced on Thursday that the airline will outfit select aircraft with Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite terminals and begin offering free inflight internet powered by Kuiper in 2027, marking the first airline agreement for Amazon’s low Earth orbit network. The deal will replace or supplement JetBlue’s existing FlyFi service and aims to deliver substantially faster, lower-latency connectivity for passengers during flight.

Amazon said the aircraft-mounted Kuiper terminals planned for JetBlue are aviation-specific and capable of supporting download speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. In a live test using an enterprise-grade customer terminal, Project Kuiper recorded a download speed of 1,289 megabits per second on Ookla’s Speedtest platform, a result Amazon touted as evidence its phased-array antenna can sustain gigabit-class performance. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote on X that he was “excited to have JetBlue as our first airline customer bringing faster inflight WiFi” to passengers using the Kuiper network. JetBlue president Marty St. George said the agreement “marks an exciting leap forward” for the carrier and that the airline will continue offering...