United Airlines Now Lets You Watch Hit Apple TV+ Shows For Free

United Airlines today announced that select Apple TV+ shows are now available to watch for free through its in-flight entertainment system.

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The shows are available to watch on United's more than 130,000 seatback screens, and in the United app. At launch, the airline is offering the first seasons of Severance, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, and Silo, with The Morning Show and Bad Sisters to be added this September. Additional content will be added each month.

United eventually plans to have 300,000 seatback screens across its fleet, as it takes delivery of hundreds of new airplanes and retrofits existing aircraft.

This latest partnership between United and Apple provides the airline's passengers with an additional entertainment perk, while giving hit Apple TV+ shows more exposure. With only the first seasons of hit shows currently available, the passengers may be inclined to subscribe to Apple TV+ to keep watching the shows.

United also supports Apple's Live Activities and Share Item Location features.

In the U.S., Apple's streaming service is priced at $9.99 per month, or $99 per year. It is also bundled in all Apple One plans.

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Top Rated Comments

WarmWinterHat Avatar
8 weeks ago

How do these systems work? Are the shows/movies stored on a server locally on the plane or is the plane using a satellite connection for this?
They are stored locally.

https://www.astronics.com/productinfo?productgroup=Inflight%20Entertainment%20System%20Hardware&subproduct=IFEC%20Embedded%20System%20Hardware&subitem=IFE%20Servers

https://www.kontron.com/en/products/systems/aircraft-computers/servers/c136853
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WarmWinterHat Avatar
8 weeks ago

Nice! Wait, I only fly on Xanax...
I usually read my Kindle or a book. I never could get into watching video during flights.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ApAx Avatar
8 weeks ago

United Airlines today announced ('https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125400') that select Apple TV+ shows are now available to watch for free through its in-flight entertainment system.
"for free" = ever so slightly higher ticket price to subsidize all this fleet retrofitting and licensing costs to Apple. You will now be paying for Economy Apple+ whether you want to or not, whether you use this "complimentary entertainment service" or not
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Total Respray Avatar
8 weeks ago
I wonder if they’ll be showing ‘Hijack’…
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
mansplains Avatar
8 weeks ago
Hit shows? What about the rest of the catalog?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Donkey Man Avatar
8 weeks ago
No; I won’t be inclined to subscribe, no matter how many times Apple offers it for free. Likewise for its doomed Apple Arcade thing.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)