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Travel Tip: How Free Inflight Entertainment is Improving

screenIf there’s one thing that helps make a long flight bearable, it’s having a good selection of free inflight entertainment at your fingertips. Thankfully, the airlines are starting to get that.

The latest trend is offering streaming entertainment that you can watch on your own device.

United just introduced its entertainment app for iOS and Android devices. It expects to roll it out fleetwide by the end of next year, even on short-hauls that don’t traditionally have any entertainment.

Delta continues to offer on-demand entertainment for your laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

JetBlue’s wireless service Fly-Fi Hub is in the beta stage, and right now, the basic level is free. You can use it to stream entertainment onto your device.

Its even partnered with HarperCollins to provide e-books in the sky. Of course, only the excerpts are free. To read the rest of the book, you have to pay.

But, watch this space for more developments. Nintendo is working on creating a console that works on airplane seatbacks, so pretty soon you might just be playing Super Mario Brothers in the air.

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