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Old Nov 9, 2018, 9:49 am
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
BA has started a trial with PressReader, which allows customers to download from a large library of currently 7,527 publications, for three days starting from 24 hours before travel. You can start downloading using the link in the "It's Time To Fly" email you should receive if you are a direct BA customer (travel agent and other non BA channel bookings may not generate this email). In addition there is open access for the BA wifi in the lounges while you are there, plus the T5C outpost. To be clear: you do not need to be a status passenger to take advantage of this.

The full details are in the main Entertainment link on BA.com:
https://www.britishairways.com/en-es...igital-reading

and the key thing to do if you are using a mobile device is to download the PressReader App in anticipation. The App works for Android, iOS (Apple), Windows Mobile, Blackberry and there are extensions for Chrome. If you are using a laptop or tablet on direct internet access then you can just use the PressReader website without any software but it's obviously easier to download and read newspapers and magazines offline via the App. Such publications don't expire, so you can spend 3 days downloading material and then as long as you like reading them.

Many of the UK's major newspapers are on this service, including The Independent (no longer a print newspaper), I think the key omission are The Times and Financial Times. The Guardian, Telegraph are on it, plus the Glasgow Herald, Scotsman and the Belfast Telegraph. There are 457 UK publications on board, including a lot of the well known glossy magazines.

Other airlines have been doing this for a while, notably the Lufthansa Group.
The Times is on Press reader - I have a subscription. Much prefer the facsimile view of the paper to downloading website articles.
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