Star Alliance member United Airlines has become the first airline to publicly tout its ability to let premium passengers play music and video content from their own Apple iPod personal electronic devices (PEDs) over the carrier’s Panasonic Avionics-made in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems.

The US major is in the process of equipping the premium cabins of its entire international widebody fleet with fully lie-flat beds, as part of a $165 million, multi-tiered program to revamp its business travel offering, which includes new Panasonic IFE systems.

Each IFE platform provides a 15.4-inch widescreen flat panel monitor with an on-demand digital video and music system that offers multiple

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