The agreement, announced in Chicago, gives United passengers access to games from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, FS1, ESPN, ESPN2, NFL Network and Thursday Night Football via Prime Video, all streamed over the airline’s Starlink satellite Wi‑Fi network.
United says the live‑TV service is already available on more than 220 main‑line aircraft and is expected to expand to nearly 700 planes by the time the Super Bowl airs, with installations slated for completion before the end of 2027.
Starlink connectivity currently supports up to 700 flights per day, and the service is offered free of charge to MileagePlus members in every class of service, according to United’s executive vice president and chief commercial officer Andrew Nocella.
“Starlink opens a whole new world of features and benefits for our customers, regardless of where they sit on the plane – now football fans don’t have to schedule their flights around game day,” Nocella said, adding that passengers can also manage fantasy rosters, text, or stream other games on personal devices.
Dish’s executive vice president of video services, Amir Ahmed, highlighted the collaboration, noting that the OnStream platform combined with United’s Starlink connectivity “rewrites the inflight playbook” and lets fans watch their teams at 35,000 feet.
The rollout follows United’s earlier inflight entertainment experiments, including a live fantasy football draft broadcast from 30,000 feet in partnership with ESPN and a summer‑time streaming of the world’s biggest soccer tournament on Starlink‑enabled domestic flights.
To date, United’s Starlink network is active on more than 560 United mainline and United Express aircraft, has powered over 31 million passenger trips across 464,000 flights, and supported 14.2 million devices.