Alaska Airlines offers free entertainment for passengers' personal devices

Forget the seatback video screen, the future of inflight entertainment is your own smartphone and tablet.

Alaska Airlines began rolling out an inflight package called Alaska Beyond Monday, including a streaming service with about 100 hours of video entertainment. The airline will outfit its entire fleet of 737s with the service by April.

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The service will be free through January; the airline will introduce prices starting at $1.99 beginning Feb. 1, 2015.

Alaska Beyond will also include "Beyond Delicious," with new food and drink options, and "Beyond Comfort," with new seats and power outlets coming to every seat eventually. Read more...

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