Amazon drones

Amazon may face an Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit in the coming months, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Just as Amazon Prime Air drone delivery was beginning to gain momentum, the service was hit with another setback.

As part of Amazon’s some 18,000 job cuts, a “significant number” of employees at several drone delivery facilities reportedly were laid off.

Amazon must complete 7,000 test flights as part of a federal regulatory requirement for durability and reliability.

College Station will join Lockeford, California, as one of Amazon’s earliest U.S. drone delivery test markets.

Drone delivery reached new heights in 2021, and as a result, there was no shortage of interest in the technology.

In this week’s Drone Disruptors, Modern Shipper talked to Elroy Air CEO and co-founder David Merrill.

As drone delivery services ramp up, the time is quickly approaching when warehouses will need to adjust their operations to accommodate single-package loading.

How quickly drone package delivery becomes a reality is dependent on a couple of factors, perhaps none bigger than whether the public is ready to accept it.