Full seasons of choose Apple TV+ world hits will now be obtainable at no cost on United Airlines’ 130,000+ seatback screens and within the United app, together with award-winning exhibits resembling “Severance,” “Shrinking,” “Ted Lasso,” “Slow Horses,” “Silo” and extra.
United, in a launch, mentioned it has made a sequence of investments within the seatback expertise in recent times, together with putting in seatback screens in each seat as a part of its United Next progress plan and most lately asserting a brand new plane inside that features big, Bluetooth-enabled, 27-inch, 4K OLED seatback screens, the biggest amongst U.S. carriers.
The introduction of Apple TV+ aligns with United’s plans to have 300,000+ screens throughout its fleet because it takes supply of tons of of recent airplanes and retrofits present plane, the airline mentioned.
United mentioned its prospects get pleasure from 1000’s of hours of contemporary new leisure content material each month, and the addition of extra premium originals from Apple TV+ offers vacationers much more choices to look at throughout their journey journey.
Last month, Apple TV+ landed a record-breaking 81 Emmy Award nominations, with “Severance” main as this 12 months’s most-nominated sequence.
“Apple creates groundbreaking original series, and United travelers are going to love watching fan-favorite Apple Originals for free on their next flight,” Mark Muren, United’s managing director of product, id and loyalty, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re setting a new standard for a premium inflight experience, and our first-of-its-kind collaboration with Apple TV+ gives fliers more high-quality content options on the latest high-definition seatback screens.”
In addition to being this 12 months’s most Emmy nominated sequence, “Severance” is among the most critically acclaimed exhibits of 2025, and now, United vacationers can watch all 9 episodes of the primary season of “Severance” onboard any home or worldwide United flight with inflight leisure or within the United app.
That means prospects can catch an episode or two on a short-haul route and choose up proper the place they left off on their subsequent United flight, or binge the complete season in one-sitting on a long-haul flight.