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Amazon Prime Air, or simply Prime Air, is a drone delivery service operated by Amazon. The service uses delivery drones to autonomously fly individual packages to customers, and launched in 2022. [1] The service currently operates in two cities in the US, with plans to expand into the UK and Italy in 2024. [2]
During a TV interview in 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said drones would be flying to customer’s homes within five years. However, the company’s progress was delayed amid regulatory setbacks.
The following month, the company partnered with Domino's in New Zealand to launch the first commercial drone delivery service. [74] [75] In China, JD.com has been developing drone delivery capabilities. As of June 2017, JD.com had seven different types of delivery drones in testing across four provinces in China (Beijing, Sichuan, Shaanxi and ...
Amazon Prime Air is an experimental drone delivery service that delivers packages via drones to Amazon Prime subscribers in select cities. Amazon directly employs people to work at its warehouses, bulk distribution centers, staffed "Amazon Hub Locker+" locations, and delivery stations where drivers pick up packages.
In April 2019 Wing became the first drone delivery company to receive an Air operator's certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration to allow it to operate as an airline in the US. [9] In the first quarter of 2022, the service made more than 50,000 deliveries. [10]
The Google-owned company Wing has been offering an eVTOL UAV delivery service since 2020. Their drones are able to fly up to 100 km and carry up to 1.5 kg. [51] Amazon Prime Air and UPS are two others companies using drone delivery. [52] A German aerospace company called Wingcopter in collaboration with UNICEF has also delivered vaccines in ...
Amazon said on Thursday it had successfully completed an initial test of using delivery drones in Italy, the first European country where the e-commerce giant plans to introduce the service. "The ...
A UAV came within 5 metres (16 ft) of an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-200 on final approach to Auckland Airport on 25 March 2018. [43] The pilots spotted the UAV as the aircraft was at a point in its descent where it was not possible to take evasive action, and they initially feared it would be sucked into an engine. [43]