Flights aboard United Airways are about to get extra attention-grabbing because of a brand new partnership with Spotify that may provide passengers greater than 450 hours of free content material.
Going ahead, United passengers will have the ability to take heed to dozens of audiobooks and video podcasts, marking the primary time Spotify has provided these merchandise on an airline. These embody widespread podcasts like “Good Cling with Amy Poehler” and “The Dave Chang Present,” United shared with TPG.
“Spotify has an enormous viewers and other people love their content material. And now our prospects can get pleasure from all of it in a easy and simple method, at 35,000 ft,” Richard Nunn, the CEO of United MileagePlus, mentioned in an announcement shared with TPG. “Collectively, we’re giving hundreds of thousands of shoppers a completely new approach to expertise and discover premium content material from the world’s hottest artists, authors and podcasters — all whereas flying with the most recent know-how within the sky.”
To start out, Spotify shall be out there by way of the seatback screens on greater than 680 of United’s plane. Vacationers flying on Starlink-equipped plane (which the airline began rolling out final month) may even have the ability to stream Spotify from their private gadgets by logging into their MileagePlus accounts.
On seatback screens, the streaming service will exchange the “audio” class below the house menu and can embody choices for podcasts, video podcasts, audiobooks and playlists. United mentioned the vast majority of its plane would additionally obtain a devoted Spotify channel within the coming months.
In 2026, United plans to introduce a function permitting passengers to make use of their private gadgets to log into the Spotify app on the inflight leisure screens.
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Ian Geller, vp of enterprise growth at Spotify, mentioned the deliberate replace would offer “an much more customized app streaming expertise to seatbacks subsequent yr.”
To have fun the brand new partnership, United is providing MileagePlus members who’re new to Spotify’s Premium Particular person subscription the prospect to enroll and earn as much as 1,000 bonus miles. A Premium Particular person subscription prices $11.99 per 30 days.
The leisure updates come on the heels of United’s choice to add extra seatback screens with 4K decision, take a look at out a brand new Management Tower view choice by means of the inflight map and extra.
Past United, Delta Air Strains has provided Spotify-curated playlists and choose podcasts; nonetheless, the airline informed TPG that the partnership shall be coming to an finish because the provider introduces its ad-free streaming partnership with YouTube.
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