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Boeing 787s, Airbus A350s and A330neos. The rollout completes by the end of 2027. Starlink uses low Earth orbit satellites operating between 340 and 1,200 kilometres altitude, compared to traditional geostationary satellites at 35,000 kilometres. The lower orbit reduces signal travel time, enabling streaming video and real-time applications.
The airline also partnered with Omnevo in September 2025 to overhaul its retail technology. Omnevo will integrate duty-free e-commerce, loyalty programmes, pre-order meals, onboard sales and logistics into a single platform.
Virgin Atlantic’ s approach to rolling out AI across the business Virgin Atlantic built its AI programme around four areas: education, community, guardrails and iteration. The airline created training materials with OpenAI covering prompt engineering and custom GPT development, recruited AI champions from different departments to share what works and brought in AI apprentices through a partnership with Cambridge Spark.
Virgin Atlantic put policies in place around data privacy, model access and usage before letting teams loose with the technology. aimagazine. com 147