One overlooked aspect of the announcement is that Starlink is signing contracts like this a lot lately (United comes to mind)

Yet so far, they only provided 50 000 flight hours of connectivity, and tout 40-200 MB/s of connectivity per terminal.

It's not just AF taking the leap, it's the whole industry. At the same time. With an unprecedented generous offer to pax.

From a technical standpoint, the scale-up will be interesting to say the least. If we have 500 000 eligible people up in the air expecting 10 MB/s of bandwidth, that's going to be 30% of the global Starlink theoretical bandwidth as we speak.

Same as AF SAF incorporation roadmap: it is a move that will only work if it allows the underlying infrastructure to grow as needed.