Alaska Airlines has announced it will offer Starlink WiFi to its customers starting from next year.

The airline carrier is the latest to pair with Elon Musk's SpaceX subsidiary Starlink to offer in-flight Internet services.

Starlink already offers in-flight WiFi for Hawaiian Airlines, which is another subsidiary of Alaska Air Group.

"With Starlink already live on Hawaiian Airlines and installations starting this winter across Alaska's fleet, we're proud that we'll offer the fastest, most reliable in-flight Internet in the skies – with gate-to-gate connectivity on nearly every aircraft across both airlines," said Ben Minicucci, chief executive officer and president of Alaska Air Group.

Starlink claims that its in-flight WiFi offers latency of less than 99ms, and speeds of up to 500Mbps. At present, Starlink has more than 8,000 of its satellites in orbit.

T-Mobile, which has its own nationwide direct-to-device (D2D) satellite service, T-Satellite, in partnership with Starlink, separately noted it will offer free WiFi on Starlink-equipped aircraft to members of the Atmos Rewards program.

SpaceX set up a dedicated division for its in-flight connectivity service in 2022 called Starlink Aviation.

It was reported at launch that SpaceX priced the service at between $12,500 and $25,000 a month, while there was also a one-time hardware charge of $150,000.

Starlink already has other in-flight connectivity agreements in place, including with United Airlines and Air France. The company is also nearing a deal to provide its in-flight Internet service for Saudi Airlines.

Several other airlines, including airBaltic, Zipair Tokyo, and JSX, have also chosen Starlink Aviation. JSX’s entire Embraer ERJ fleet is already fitted with the system.