The Israeli start-up that was given a tentative go-ahead to pioneer a pilotless courier service as part of a wider drone delivery testing phase in North Carolina, has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to extend its reach five-fold.
Previously Flytrex was allowed to target a maximum of 2000 households, delivering food of no more than three kilograms at a time.
Following the FAA nod, Flytrex can now deliver takeaways to 10 000 households in Lafayette where it is based – for now.
The development is widely seen as a significant move towards the sky-safe promotion of suburban drone delivery.
Previously the 2000-household ceiling meant that Flytrex was a little hamstrung by the volume limitation placed on an expensive input-cost endeavour.
The company’s co-founder and CEO, Yariv Bash, said that drone delivery was very much a numbers game and that Flytrex would be catering for more demand now that the FAA had given it more leeway.
