Originally Posted by
cyber1k
Are any A330's done at all yet?
FWIW, I interviewed HA exec Avi Mannis last week and
asked about this:
Mannis tells Executive Traveller that Hawaiian Airlines’ first Starlink-equipped A330 will debut in the northern summer, “in June, July or August.”
After that initial A330 is certified – “and because we’re the first airline to be deploying Starlink, we get to go through the certification process first” – the rest of the 24-strong fleet will be upgraded at pace.
“It’s a pretty quick installation as these things go, it’s just a couple of days to do. We certified our first A321 at the beginning of the year and we had all 18 done within a couple of months.”
So the big unknown is how long it'll take the
first A330 to be FAA-certified, but after that it's set to roll out to the rest of the fleet relatively quickly.