The airline’s Air Time platform allows customers to access films, TV shows, children’s entertainment, games and audio books, as well as flight information and destination guides on their smartphones and tablets using a closed Wi-Fi network.
The free-to-use service will be tested by the low-cost carrier onboard five aircraft belonging to its Swiss subsidiary in the coming months.
Unveiling the product at easyJet’s Innovation Day, Daniel Young, head of apps and digital travel experience, said the trial would “play [Air Time] out for the next 6-9 months” and if it proved successful, would embark on a “radical roll-out programme” across its fleet.
Paul Moore, director of communications, said easyJet had chosen its Swiss fleet as a way of “ring fencing” the trial, and confirmed the aircraft would be operating to the UK during the period – giving British passengers the chance to try Air Time.
