In what was a first for me, I experienced a “flight to nowhere” on Monday…on United Airlines. But unlike most fights to nowhere, this was one was a deliberate two-hour journey from LAX to LAX to showcase Starlink high-speed internet onboard.
I don’t fly much United Express these days and have only been on one Starlink flight, a short 110-mile hop from Los Angeles to Palm Springs (PSP), so this was my first mainline Starlink flight. The flight would be operated by a 737-900.
At around 2:45 pm, I arrived in Terminal 7 at LAX, where there was a special check-in desk for my flight. Interestingly, the boarding pass said the flight was from LAX to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California (SNA), probably becuase UA’s system does not allow a flight coding with the same departure and arrival airport.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
