How we verify Alaska Starlink data

Where the data comes from

We cross-check 3 sources:

  • Alaskaair.com · every 90 seconds

    We look up which aircraft is flying each upcoming flight. For Alaska this shows the aircraft type, not the Wi-Fi, so an aircraft's Wi-Fi comes from where its type stands in the rollout.

  • Flightradar24 fleet and schedules · fleet daily, schedules continuously

    The fleet lists for Alaska and Horizon give us the total and each aircraft's type. Schedules tell us which aircraft flies which flight.

  • Community install reports · checked continuously

    Frequent-flyer forums track which mainline 737s and 787s have Starlink. We record these as reports, never as verified.

How an aircraft counts as having Starlink

An aircraft is verified or reported:

  • Verified. Alaskaair.com showed the aircraft on a flight, and it's an E175, a type where every aircraft has Starlink.
  • Reported. A community source says it has Starlink. It counts toward the total.

A flight more than about 2 days out has no aircraft yet, so its answer is a probability from the share of its aircraft type with Starlink. Predictions never change the fleet count.

Once an hour we reconcile the sources.

How fresh it is

Checks and schedule updates run all day, and every page reads the live database, so a change shows up on the next page load. Last updated October 18, 2026.

What we can't tell you

  • The aircraft can change up to departure, so yours may not be the one we checked.
  • We track aircraft, not connection quality or outages on a given flight.
  • An install date is the day we first saw Starlink on the aircraft, which can be a few days after the work was done.

Get the data

/api/data is open JSON, no key needed. It lists the Starlink Alaska aircraft we count (type, operator and date found), the fleet totals behind the headline percentage, the last-updated time, and upcoming flights for each of those aircraft. Read lastUpdated with the counts.

The same aircraft with the date each was found, as a spreadsheet: /data/starlink-tails.csv.

Citing this data

Quote the count on the homepage (element id starlink-stat), which gives the Alaska Airlines count, the fleet total and the percentage. The numbers change as installs are verified, so include the date from the page's "Data last updated" line. Credit to alaskastarlinktracker.com is appreciated. The source code is public.