Southwest Offers Streaming TV - NYTimes.com Southwest Airlines, which does not have seatback video players on its aircraft, began offering a service this month that allows passengers to watch on-demand movies and episodes of popular TV shows like "Downton Abbey" (above) and "30 Rock" on their own personal electronic devices. The feature is available on all 417 Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft. Movies are $5 each, and the television package, which includes on-demand programming and eight channels of live news and sports introduced last year, is $5 a day.