One major U.S. airline is making sure NFL fans don't miss their favorite football games while in flight.
United Airlines last week announced that its passengers "won't miss a play this football season" under a new agreement with satellite television provider DISH.
The agreement will allow travelers to "catch live professional and college football games right on their Starlink
-enabled seatback screen.""This new entertainment offering builds on the airline's long history of supporting professional football, sponsoring nine professional football teams in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Washington D.C., Denver, Kansas City, Cleveland and Nashville and operating more than 200 team charter flights for 11 teams this season," United said in a news
release.
Live football comes to 200+ United planes
United has already installed the service on more than 200 airplanes, accounting for about 700 flights per day.
The airline said the service will be available on domestic flights through Super Bowl LXI in February, when United expects to have Starlink on nearly 700 airplanes.
Describing Starlink as "the fastest, most reliable Wi-Fi in the sky," United said the service is active on more than 560 United mainline and United Express aircraft.
The airline said it has already flown more than 31 million passengers on Starlink-powered aircraft across more than 464,000 flights, powering 14.2 million devices.
The new service launched shortly after United partnered with ESPN to host a "first-of-its kind live Fantasy Football Draft from 30,000 feet," where ESPN analyst Tyler Fulghum made his picks live from the sky during the two-hour broadcast.
Passengers can watch more than NFL games
Not a football fan? No problem.
Starlink will also offer passengers live broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, FS1, ESPN, ESPN2, NFL Network and "TNF" on Prime Video, according to the airline.
"Starlink opens a whole new world of features and benefits for our customers, regardless of where they sit on the plane," Nocella said. "They can watch their favorite team on seatback and also make changes to their fantasy roster, text or live chat with friends, or even stream different games on their phone, laptop or tablet, just like they would do at home."
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: United passengers can now watch live NFL, college football in flight
