{"id":19798,"date":"2021-10-25T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19798"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:47:52","slug":"mesa-air-group-becomes-first-scheduled-airline-to-launch-drone-delivery-business-in-the-u-s-in-partnership-with-flirtey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/arizona\/mesa-air-group-becomes-first-scheduled-airline-to-launch-drone-delivery-business-in-the-u-s-in-partnership-with-flirtey\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Air Group Becomes First Scheduled Airline to Launch Drone Delivery Business in the U.S. in Partnership with Flirtey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mesa Air Group, Inc. has signed an agreement with aerospace\ntechnology company Flirtey to order 4 delivery drones, with an option to order\nan additional 500 aircraft. The agreement marks Mesa becoming the first\nscheduled airline to launch drone delivery in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flirtey-edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19800\" width=\"255\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flirtey-edit-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flirtey-edit-2-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mesa and Flirtey are initially focusing on the last-mile\nfood delivery industry, enabling Mesa to expand beyond the global airlines\nmarket and into the global food service market. The immediate goal of the\npartnership is to conduct commercial drone deliveries in the last-mile food and\nbeverage market in the U.S. The parties plan to expand the drone delivery\nservice in the U.S. and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this agreement, Flirtey, the aircraft designer and\nmanufacturer, is supplying it\u2019s best-in-class technology including the Flirtey\nEagle, an electric powered, advanced drone that conducts precision delivery to\nhomes and businesses, and Flirtey&#8217;s autonomous software platform that conducts\nautonomous flight operations, for Mesa to operate commercial drone delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership will prioritize operational excellence and\ndata collection, enabling rapid expansion with Mesa\u2019s operational experience as\na leading regional air carrier with approximately 450 daily departures across\nthe U.S. and Flirtey\u2019s technical experience having conducted over 6,000 drone\ndelivery flights in the U.S. with its technology protected by over 1,000\npatents claims issued and pending in the U.S. and worldwide. Flirtey recently\nexpanded production of delivery drones to meet growing demand. Flirtey\u2019s\naircraft are made in USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMesa is excited to partner with Flirtey to become the first\nscheduled airline to launch drone delivery in the U.S. Drone delivery is a huge\nmarket and it\u2019s here now. This is the future of small package last mile\ndelivery,\u201d said Mesa Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFlirtey is excited to partner with Mesa to operationalize\nour best-in-class drone delivery aircraft and autonomous software platform.\nWith Mesa\u2019s operational excellence, we look forward to rapidly expanding drone\ndelivery focusing on the trillion-dollar last-mile food delivery market,\u201d said\nFlirtey Founder and CEO Matthew Sweeny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa Air Group, Inc. has signed an agreement with aerospace technology company Flirtey to order 4 delivery drones, with an option to order an additional 500 aircraft. The agreement marks Mesa becoming the first scheduled airline to launch drone delivery in the U.S. Mesa and Flirtey are initially focusing on the last-mile food delivery industry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,116,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona","category-front-page-slider","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flirtey-Eagleedit-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19801,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions\/19801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}