United Airways is increasing its in-flight leisure catalog with audiobooks and video podcasts, courtesy of Spotify. The partnership with Spotify offers passengers with free entry to greater than 450 hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts, together with Good Grasp with Amy Poehler, The Dave Chang Present, and The Remark Part with Drew Afualo.
This content material is accessible now throughout greater than 130,000 seat-based leisure screens on United flights. Spotify says that is the primary time it’s supplied audiobooks and video podcasts onboard an airline, with the United partnership permitting passengers to entry Spotify content material with out creating an account for the streaming service.
“Spotify has an enormous viewers and other people love their content material,” MileagePlus CEO Richard Nunn mentioned within the announcement. “And now our prospects can get pleasure from all of it in a easy and straightforward method, at 35,000 toes.
United says it’s engaged on including the power for passengers to signal into their very own Spotify accounts on the in-flight leisure display through their private gadget. The function is anticipated to be accessible in 2026 and can permit customers to select up the place they left off on playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts, and luxuriate in video content material for the latter on a big display with out establishing a pill or laptop computer.
Passengers on United’s Starlink-equipped planes can already browse and stream Spotify on their very own gadgets, alongside different companies like YouTube and Apple Music. The upgraded in-flight Wi-Fi was launched in March and might be accessed at no cost by logging right into a MileagePlus loyalty program account, with streaming supported gate-to-gate.
