Airline WI-Fi -- As Long As It's Reliable, Fast, And Free -- The Brand Probably Matters Little To Most Flyers -- June 9, 2026

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Of the four major airlines, the airline and your a/c wifi is determined by where you live.  

Market share of each of the big four: about 18% for each.  

In general, the only airline I need to fly is American Airlines (AA). 

Wi-Fi: StarLink vs Leo.

Elon Musk SpaceX vs Amazon Leo.

In round numbers, with complettion of sixth terminal at DFW, in progress:

• ATL: 200 gates: 175 gates for DAL; 4 gates for AA.
• DFW: 200 gates; 200 gates for AA; 5 gates for DAL.

AA, United, Southwest: Starlink.

Delta: Amazon Leo.

 

Is amazon leo free on delta for flyers? 

On American Airlines, Starlink wi-fi is free if one signs into American Airlines as a AA Advantage member. 

 

So, it appears, this will be another way to get folks to become members of "airline loyalty clubs."  

 

There could be much to write about, but I think sentient beings can sort this out. 

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US Airlines

Query: 

Of the four major US airlines, could one argue that Southwest if quite regional (the south and the southwest); United is very US-focusted; Delta, along with US is focued on Europe; and American, along with US, is focued on Latin American (Central America and South America)? 

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Human "Rationality" Vs AI

Link here. It may take a bit of work but one can read the entire article without a password or a subscription but there will be a lot of ads. Whether it's worth the time to read the article is in the eye of the beholder.

But there are few nice points for cocktail chatter.

And some jargon along with a bit of history, otherwise to be forgotten.

Ralph Leighton at a restaurant in Glendale, California. Leighton was agonizing over ordering his usual favorite, or risking something new.

Feynman turned the choice into a math problem, and solved it on a piece of notebook paper. His equation showed exactly when Leighton — or any indecisive diner, for that matter — should stop taking risks and stick with what one knows is good.

"People are not doing the optimal thing. They're doing something radically simpler," Christian said. "And still the simple strategy is being tailored in a way that feels very situationally appropriate."

The slope of people's declining threshold was identical across every condition — a week-long trip or a month-long one, restaurants distributed evenly in quality or skewed toward extremes. What did shift was where people set their starting bar, adjusting it appropriately based on the landscape they'd seen.

In other words, people used a universal rule for how fast to lower their standards, but calibrated how high to set them in the first place.

The results fit into an emerging framework in cognitive science called "resource rationality." The idea that humans aren't perfectly rational, but make good use of the limited time and brainpower they have.

"People don't do the perfect thing, but they make nearly perfect use of their constrained resources," Christian said. "I think this is a little bit more of a redemptive story about the human mind than we are used to from the 20th century."

That's a shift from the long tradition in behavioral economics emphasizing human irrationality and cognitive bias.

Christian says the findings also have implications for AI. Most AI systems assume people behave as perfectly rational agents. This study suggests that AI designed around how humans actually think — imperfectly — might work better.