Aer Lingus, in a new partnership with Press Reader, is giving passengers free access to the digital newspaper and magazine provider’s library of more than 7,000 publications.

Customers can access the material via a link to download the Press Reader app in the ‘Before You Fly’ email, sent out 24 hours before flight departure. The amount of content a passenger can access and the length of time they can download the material depends on fare and whether the flight is within Europe or is a trans-Atlantic flight.

Plus and Advantage fare passengers on European flights can download up to five free titles for a period of 24 hours, while Aerspace customers get unlimited access for four days.

Trans-Atlantic services have a different access level. Saver fare passengers can download five free titles for a period of 24 hours, Smart customers get 10 downloads for 72 hours, Flex passengers get 10 titles for four days, Business fare customers get unlimited access for four days, and Business Flex customers get unlimited access for eight days.

Once a passenger downloads a publication, it stays on their device and does not expire. The only fare type that doesn’t benefit from this new access is Saver passengers on European flights.

Aer Lingus’s planes on its European network are not WiFi-enabled, so publications need to be downloaded before departure. It also says “Even on trans-Atlantic flights where WiFi is available, we recommend downloading your titles while you’re on the ground so that you don’t use up too much of your inflight data allowance.”

Passengers using the airline’s lounges at Dublin (DUB), Heathrow (LHR) and New York (JFK) get full download access to the Press Reader library during their visit.