Delta and YouTube Premium debut new project with R&B star Leon Thomas
Overhead Originals from Delta and YouTube Premium captures a live performance from three-time GRAMMY award-winning R&B artist Leon Thomas onboard a Delta aircraft, available to watch first on YouTube now and then on Delta’s in-flight entertainment this summer. Discover more music you love on board with a 14-day preview of YouTube Premium when you log in to Delta Sync Wi-Fi on your next flight.
Travel has a way of creating space for discovery, changing how people experience moments, music and culture along the way.
Overhead Originals is a new original content project from Delta and YouTube Premium that brings a live performance into an unexpected place: a Delta Boeing 767. A new creative expression of Delta and YouTube’s partnership, Overhead Originals taps into a unique musical performance to explore how culture, creativity and travel intersect. By offering viewers a new way to experience music through the lens of the journey itself, Delta and YouTube are reimagining how culture and travel can create moments of connection at every step. The exclusive original content is now available to enjoy on Delta’s YouTube channel and will extend to Delta’s in-flight entertainment this summer.
Three-time GRAMMY award-winning R&B star Leon Thomas introduces the project with an intimate, live performance recorded on a Delta aircraft. For Thomas, whose music blends soul, reflection and storytelling, the setting was intentional. Travel has long shaped his creative process - offering space to slow down, take in new perspectives and create from a reflective headspace. That perspective carries through the performance, reflecting the role new environments play in shaping what we create.
A performance designed to travel
While the live performance was experienced by a small audience of SkyMiles Members and Delta frontline employees, it was created to travel far beyond the cabin. The performance is now available exclusively on YouTube before it joins the award-winning content on Delta’s in-flight entertainment this summer.
Plus, U.S. SkyMiles Members logged in to fast, free Delta Sync Wi-Fi presented by T-Mobile on their personal devices and flying domestically can unlock an exclusive 14-Day Free Preview of YouTube Premium – no form of payment required. That means SkyMiles Members can keep playing what they love without interruptions across YouTube and YouTube Music, with premium benefits like ad-free viewing, download for offline play, and keep content going in the background. See full terms and learn more below.*
In addition to exclusive video content, customers can explore even more music onboard through YouTube Music. From curated audio playlists designed for different moods and moments of travel to new boarding music powered by YouTube Music, featuring more instrumental, ambient selections, Delta and YouTube continue to evolve the onboard sound experience.
An award-winning in-flight entertainment experience at scale
“Travel puts people in a different headspace — one that’s often more open, reflective and curious,” said Sarah Downs, Managing Director of In-Flight Entertainment & Connectivity at Delta. “By bringing YouTube onboard and partnering to create experiences like Overhead Originals, we’re meeting customers where they are in that moment and giving them new ways to connect with the content, artists, and creators they love while they travel.”
Overhead Originals builds on Delta’s long-standing commitment to elevating the in-flight entertainment experience – one designed to give customers more ways to enjoy the content they love while onboard and make their seat in the sky feel more like the seat in their living room. Through fast, free Delta Sync Wi-Fi on nearly 1,200 aircraft and over 165,000 seatback screens, customers can access premium entertainment from YouTube and other new partners at scale.
Did you know? Delta was selected as the Best Airline Entertainment winner in the 2025 Rolling Stone Travel Awards, recognized for best-in-class content and having something for everyone to enjoy onboard.
Watch Overhead Originals now on YouTube
Overhead Originals: A Live Onboard Performance feat. Leon Thomas | Delta Air Lines x YouTube
Delta x YouTube Overhead Originals: Leon Thomas
*Full Terms & Conditions
This offer is for 14 days of YouTube Premium access and available to registrants with active Delta U.S. SkyMiles account who are at least 18 years of age, traveling on Delta flights originating and arriving in the U.S (“YTP Offer”). To be eligible for this YTP Offer, you must have an active Google account. If you do not have a Google account at the time that you sign up, you will be required to create one. Creation of a Google account for purposes of this YTP Offer will not result in enrolling in a paid subscription. No form of payment required. This YTP Offer ends upon expiration of a 14 day period from first access to YouTube Premium. Limit one trial per Delta SkyMiles member. New YouTube Premium users only. User must not have had a YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, or YouTube Premium Lite no-credit-card trial in the last 12 months, and/or must have cancelled their YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, or YouTube Premium Lite subscription more than 12 months ago. This YTP Offer is available only in the U.S. and its territories.
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