Airline · Middle East

Qatar Airways Wi-Fi

Qatar Airways offers Starlink on selected aircraft and routes. Privilege Club members can connect for the full flight.

Provider
Starlink
Network
Oryx Comms
Free
On Starlink flights, Qatar Airways offers 45 minutes of access, or full-flight access to Privilege Club members.

Checked 2 November 2026. Prices and policies as of November 2026.

Who provides it

  • Starlink

    Available on select routes operated by equipped Boeing 777, A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft.

What’s free

  • On Starlink flights, Qatar Airways offers 45 minutes of access, or full-flight access to Privilege Club members.
  • On aircraft without Starlink, Privilege Club members can get one complimentary hour. Student Club members get unlimited access.

As of November 2026.

Prices

Qatar Airways offers paid Wi-Fi on aircraft without Starlink but does not give a general price on its connectivity page.

The airline says pre-purchasing may save up to 20%. Check the offer for your flight.

As of November 2026.

Streaming and calls

Qatar Airways promotes live sports streaming on its Starlink service. Availability and performance depend on the flight and connection.

VPNs

Qatar Airways does not publish a general VPN rule on its connectivity page.

Which planes have it

Starlink is available on select routes on equipped Boeing 777, A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft, subject to aircraft changes. Older Wi-Fi is offered on the A380 and selected other aircraft. Check your flight.

How to connect

  1. Turn on airplane mode and Wi-Fi when permitted by the crew.

  2. Join the Oryx Comms Wi-Fi network.

  3. For Starlink, join Privilege Club or enter your email address if already a member.

For purchased access on older Wi-Fi, enter the access code in the onboard portal.

On board with Kilobat

Kilobat is a Mac menu-bar app that shows what each app sends and holds back what can wait. On a plane:

  • The sign-in page. When it doesn’t open by itself, the menu bar says This Wi-Fi wants you to sign in, with Open sign-in page. Turn your VPN on after you’ve signed in.
  • Mark it metered. macOS treats plane Wi-Fi as unlimited. Mark it Metered in Kilobat’s Wi-Fi menu or with kilobat networks cost metered, and Kilobat skips its own speed tests. If automatic switching is enabled, it switches to Travel.
  • Updates wait. With Pro, paused updaters enabled and the network filter on, macOS Software Update, App Store downloads, Google Updater and Microsoft AutoUpdate wait for an unmetered network. The apps keep working.
  • See what’s using it. Every app’s upload and download, live in the menu bar, so a messaging-only plan isn’t spent on a sync you forgot.
  • Send later. A big upload, such as Dropbox syncing a folder, shows as a row with its speed. With Pro, Send later can hold it until you’re on unmetered Wi-Fi again, for up to eight hours while Kilobat is open.
  • Know what’s slow. Health shows latency and loss, and with Pro their history through the flight. Those measurements can help you investigate a slow connection. When Slack or Zoom won’t load, Is it them or me? reads the service’s status page.

More in what to do before you board.

Download for Mac ↓
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat

Questions

Is Qatar Airways Wi-Fi free?

Starlink access includes 45 minutes free, or the whole flight for Privilege Club members. Other aircraft have different offers.

Sources

Checked on 2 November 2026.