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A Reuters report details how Wing and Zipline push toward profitability with Walmart while Kroger, whose 2021 Ohio drone pilot died under pre-BVLOS rules, weighs a relaunch as PwC forecasts 65%-a-year U.S. market growth through 2034.
Read the story →Wing and Walmart activated drone delivery at eight more Houston-area Supercenters on July 8, bringing the metro to 13 nests and over 1 million eligible customers under Wing's FAA Part 135 authority.
BayCare and Zipline will build a Part 135-certified drone network across 16 Tampa Bay hospitals, starting in St. Petersburg-Clearwater with first flights targeted for late 2027.
Wonder, the food-hall operator that owns Grubhub, will launch drone food delivery in Dallas in January 2027 — entering a commercial market where Walmart and Wing are pushing toward 20 U.S. metros and Zipline has cleared 2 million deliveries.
Walmart and Alphabet's Wing plan a tethered drone-delivery hub in Maricopa, Arizona — one of seven new markets — but the real gating factor is FAA approval as the agency transitions from Part 135 waivers to the incoming Part 108 BVLOS framework.
Wing Aviation — Alphabet's drone delivery spinout — holds the first FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate ever issued to a drone company, operates across three continents, and is on course to reach more than 40 million Americans through Walmart by 2027.
Wing and Walmart have crossed 1 million cumulative drone deliveries — 40% of them in a single quarter — and are now expanding to Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City as part of a push toward 270-plus locations by 2027.
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