Twelve South’s last-generation AirFly Pro is selling for $39.99 at Amazon, according to pricing cited by The Verge’s Sheena Vasani. That is $15 below its listed $55 price and, by The Verge’s tracking, the lowest price seen this year.
The deal is aimed at a boring but persistent travel problem: a lot of planes still expect passengers to plug headphones into a seatback 3.5mm jack, while many people now carry Bluetooth earbuds. The AirFly Pro sits between those two worlds. Plug it into the headphone jack, pair your earbuds or headphones to it, and the plane’s entertainment audio plays wirelessly.
That is not exotic technology, which is the point. It is a small Bluetooth bridge for places where the hardware is stuck in the wired-audio era. Airlines, gym machines, older cars, and some game consoles are not going to redesign themselves around your earbuds before your next trip.
What the Pro model adds
The Verge notes that the AirFly Pro is currently only $5 more than Twelve South’s AirFly SE. For that difference, the Pro adds support for both Bluetooth transmitter and receiver modes.
In transmitter mode, it sends audio from a wired source to Bluetooth headphones. In receiver mode, it works the other way around: it can take audio from a phone and feed it into compatible wired speakers or sound systems. That means the same adapter can handle an airplane seatback screen during a flight, then send a phone’s music to an older stereo after landing.
The Pro also supports two pairs of Bluetooth headphones at the same time, according to The Verge. That lets two people listen to the same movie, show, or podcast from one wired audio output, assuming both sets of headphones are paired properly. Pairing two Bluetooth devices is rarely anyone’s idea of vacation glamour, but it beats sharing one earbud like it is 2009.
Battery life is listed at 25 hours. The Verge says that should cover even long international flights, which is the main use case here. A Bluetooth adapter that dies over the Atlantic is just a tiny plastic confession that wires still won.
Where else it fits
The AirFly Pro can also connect wireless earbuds to devices with a standard 3.5mm audio jack, including compatible gym equipment and a Nintendo Switch, according to The Verge. It can also feed audio from a phone into an older rental car stereo that lacks modern wireless support.
The current $39.99 price is still $7 above the lowest price The Verge says it saw in January 2025. For buyers who specifically need a travel audio adapter before a trip, the discount makes the Pro a cheaper upgrade over the SE than usual. For people whose devices already handle Bluetooth cleanly, it remains a niche dongle for legacy ports that refuse to die.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.
