Mesa Air in Partnership with Flirtey Launches First-Ever Drone Delivery Business in the Us
Mesa Air in a recent announcement has stated
that it is partnering with Flirteyto primarily focus on the last-mile food
delivery industry. Also, Mesa is planning to predominantly expand its services
beyond the global airlines and food service market. The instant goal of this partnership
is to conduct commercial drone deliveries, especially in the last-mile food and
beverage market in the US. Both the companies are planning to expand the drone
delivery service in countries like the US and New Zealand.
Flirtey, leader in designing and
manufacturing aircraftwill provide Mesa withitscutting-edge technology
including the Flirtey Eagle, which is an electric powered, advanced drone that
will help in precision-based delivery to homes and businesses, and itsnext-generation
autonomous software platform will help aircrafts to conduct autonomous flight
operations, and will help Mesa to operate commercial drone delivery.
The partnership will mainly focus on operational
excellence and data collection, which will enable the rapid expansion with
Mesa’s leading regional air carrier with over 450 daily departures across the
US. Till date Flirtey has conducted technical experiments on 6,000 drone
delivery flights in the US and has recently expanded its delivery drone
production to meet growing needs.