Wing is setting up its drone delivery service in Dallas-Fort Worth

2021-10-21T16:54:00-04:00

Drones will soon be buzzing overhead in Dallas-Fort Worth, bearing small containers filled with Tylenol and Band-Aids. Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is bringing its drone delivery service to the Texas city, its first densely populated market.

Walgreens will be the first U.S. retailer to employ this new service. For now, just one Walgreens in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be involved, making deliveries to the city of Fresco and the town of Little Elm. The drones will arrive in small containers that serve as hangars from where the aircraft will be deployed. Walgreens employees will be trained to process orders and load packages onto the delivery drones.

Along with the Walgreens location, Wing plans to establish another drone delivery facility in Frisco Station, an urban, mixed-use development north of Dallas.

According to Wing, this type of service in the U.S. has been limited to smaller towns, where land usage is less crowded and complex. The company attributes their automated drone delivery service’s ability to operate in more urban environments to their aircraft’s advanced flight planning and routing capabilities.

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Wing is setting up its drone delivery service in Dallas-Fort Worth