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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup She says the partnership, which lasted around 18 months, yielded a decent amount of business. “It tells you how far away it is … you choose what your landing area is.”Ĭoad also owns Blackout Coffee and Catering, which was formerly a Wing vendor. “ hovers above the landing site, and then it slowly retracts the food down to the ground, unclips it from itself, and then flies off,” she says. Some ice blocks she ordered “were still frozen by the time we got them”, she recalls.
Sarah Coad, a resident of the Logan suburb of Crestmead, has used Wing’s delivery service multiple times.
Rossi says the firm made more than 120,000 deliveries in the first nine months of this year – the majority of these in Logan – up from 100,000 in 2021.īut despite increased demand, the question of whether drone delivery will take off as a mainstream service across Australia remains up in the air. The company operates from Canberra, two sites in Logan, near Brisbane, and has just launched a fourth location in the Gold Coast suburb of Ormeau, in a “store-to-door” partnership with Coles that was announced last month.Ī Wing drone begins to lower its cargo of gelato for Guardian journalist Josh Butler in Canberra. “Earlier this year, we completed 1,000 deliveries in one day,” says Wing Australia’s general manager, Simon Rossi. Swoop was this week awarded $1.8m in federal funding to expand its operations, which include transporting medical samples from difficult-to-reach locations to pathology labs, thereby shortening testing times.įor Wing, which has the monopoly on the consumer market, the business is expanding. In Australia, only two companies have been approved by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa): Wing Aviation, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, which delivers food, drinks and other consumer goods and Swoop Aero, which focuses on medical equipment and supplies. Despite years of fanfare and well-publicised trials, drone deliveries are far from ubiquitous.
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