Southwest Airlines brings free Beats Music streaming to in-flight entertainment service

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Southwest Airlines on Monday announced an interesting partnership with Apple bringing Beats Music streaming music app to its in-flight entertainment service.

The subscription on-demand streaming music service, which Apple acquired as part of its $3 billion Beats buy in May of this year, is offered for free.

Beginning today, Beats Music is available onboard select Southwest Airlines WiFi-enabled aircraft featuring a library of hundreds of human-curated playlists.

A selection of Beats Music playlists is available for streaming via the airline’s in-flight entertainment service, in addition to the existing music choices available through the company’s entertainment portal.

Built-in Beats Music is compatible with iOS and Android and can also be accessed via web browsers. It’s been integrated with the in-flight entertainment service in a way that ensure “a seamless and superior quality playback”.

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Unless you’re surfing the web using the in-flight Wi-Fi service, you want have to pay a dime for Internet access in order to play Beats Music streams on your iPhone, iPad or MacBook notebooks.

The service was demonstrated live earlier today onboard the official Beats Music-decaled Boeing 737 aircraft, featuring a special playlist containing live concerts from a couple of the artists.

“Customers on this flight will get a Southwest Airlines VIP backstage pass to the most elevated live concert they’ve ever experienced, with an opportunity to meet and receive autographs from the band,” said the airline.

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Beats Music is currently available on select Southwest flights.

[Southwest Airlines via Slashgear]