United Airways is increasing its in-flight leisure catalog with audiobooks and video podcasts, courtesy of Spotify. The partnership with Spotify gives 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 on the market 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 folks love their content material,” MileagePlus CEO Richard Nunn stated 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 machine. The function is anticipated to be obtainable in 2026 and can enable 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 units, alongside different companies like YouTube and Apple Music. The upgraded in-flight Wi-Fi was introduced in March and may be accessed without cost by logging right into a MileagePlus loyalty program account, with streaming supported gate-to-gate.