- Spotify and United Airlines have announced a new association that improves flight entertainment for passengers
- You can now access more than 450 hours of spotify content in flight, including cured playlops, audiobooks and video podcasts – The first for any airline
- From 2026, passengers can log in to their own Spotify account on the backup screens for the seat to resume where they left him with their favorite music and podcasts
Spotify has announced a new association with United Airlines that aims to improve its flight experience by providing access to free content while on board. Now, passengers can transmit more than 450 hours of reproduction lists, podcasts and audiobooks cured by spotify free in more than 130,000 backup screens.
Spotify is now available in the flight systems in flight of several other airlines, including Emirates, Delta Airlines and Virgin America, although they do not offer videos of videos.
In the Spotify blog post, the transmission platform said this collaboration marks the first time [we’ve] He offered audiobooks and video podcasts aboard an airline. ‘ Passengers will have access to a selection of titles that include popular Good Hang programs with Amy Poehler, the Dave Chang program and the comments section with Drew Afualo.
But that’s not all. This new association will also allow travelers in the aircraft current equipped with Starlink Spotify on their personal devices between the doors, without interruptions and free of charge.
The only requirement is to log in to your Mileageplus account, the Frequent Flyer program of United, and accepts the terms and conditions. From there, you can transmit content on Spotify as normal in the Starlink Network.
After these ads, the Mileageplus CEO, Richard Nunn, provided a comment on collaboration: “Spotify has a large audience and people love their content. And now our clients can enjoy everything in a simple and easy way, at 35,000 feet.”
There is more to come …
When it comes to United’s new collaboration with one of the best music transmission services, this is only the beginning of its growing relationship and, from 2026, users may have more freedom with Spotify content to fly that choose to transmit.
Next year, passengers will be able to use their personal devices to log in to the Spotify application in the United flight entertainment system to show their account on the backup screen. The objective of this is to allow United passengers with a Spotify premium access and enjoy their own personal content beyond what is already available for free in the United system.
Having this freedom will allow you to resume where you left it with your favorite albums, audiobooks and podcasts, and will give broader access to Spotify content while flying. Although we do not know if the Spotify content in United flight is backed by advertisements, we will provide updates as soon as more details are announced.
