Spotify brings playlists, podcasts, and audiobooks to United flights

United Airlines is expanding its in-flight amusement catalog with audiobooks and video podcasts, courtesy of Spotify. The concern with Spotify provides passengers with escaped entree to much than 450 hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts, including Good Hang with Amy Poehler, The Dave Chang Show, and The Comment Section with Drew Afualo.

This contented is disposable present crossed much than 130,000 seat-based amusement screens connected United flights. Spotify says this is the archetypal clip it’s offered audiobooks and video podcasts onboard an airline, with the United concern allowing passengers to entree Spotify contented without creating an relationship for the streaming service.

“Spotify has a immense assemblage and radical emotion their content,” MileagePlus CEO Richard Nunn said successful the announcement. “And present our customers tin bask it each successful a elemental and casual way, astatine 35,000 feet.

United says it’s moving connected adding the quality for passengers to motion into their ain Spotify accounts connected the in-flight amusement surface via their idiosyncratic device. The diagnostic is expected to beryllium disposable successful 2026 and volition let users to prime up wherever they near disconnected connected playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts, and bask video contented for the second connected a ample surface without mounting up a tablet oregon laptop.

Passengers connected United’s Starlink-equipped planes tin already browse and watercourse Spotify connected their ain devices, alongside different services similar YouTube and Apple Music. The upgraded in-flight Wi-Fi was introduced successful March and tin beryllium accessed for escaped by logging into a MileagePlus loyalty programme account, with streaming supported gate-to-gate.