NEW DELHI : Drone delivery firm Skye Air Mobility has partnered with Flipkart Health, a pharma business division of e-commerce platform Flipkart Internet Pvt.
Ltd. to deliver medicines by drone, said a statement from the companies. The tie-up took effect with the launch of ‘beyond visual line of sight’ flights from a Flipkart Health warehouse in West Bengal to multiple locations within Kolkata and sub-urbs, the statement said on Tuesday.
This initiative will witness up to 20 flights every day, each carrying a payload of up to five kilograms of medicines to be delivered from the warehouse to 10 locations very widespread in the region, the statement said.
The maximum aerial distance to be covered by the flight will be 16 kilometres (24 kms by road). The trials will continue till 8 September 2022, the statement said.