Amazon’s Drone, PrimeAir: Recap

For all those online shoppers who are frustrated with long waiting periods to receive their delivery, There is a good news which might cheer you up and add such ease and convenience to  online shopping that you will no longer have to take up the burden of getting ready for one hour and  going through nerve wrecking traffic for another to reach a mall and buy what you want. You can now get what you want, delivered to your house in less than one hour after placing your order online through Amazon, named PRIME AIR.

What Amazon Saying:
We’re excited to share Prime Air — something the team has been working on in our next generation R&D lab. The goal of this new delivery system is to get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles. Read more.

One can generally correlate the word ‘Drone’ with Bombs and Wars. But I think this perception of public is going to change, once ‘Prime Air service’ is implemented. Because it will be little drones that will be delivering products right to the doorstep of customers. AMAZON CEO Mr.Jeff Bezos in a recent interview revealed news about this amazing new project of theirs, which is in the testing phase overseen  by the R&D department  of   the company. He’s also very confident about it and plans to bring the “Prime Air Fleet ” into operation within the next 4 to 5 years. They are yet to get approval from the FAA.

The drones can carry upto a weight of 5 pounds. which constitute 86% of Amazon sales. So, they can deliver majority of the orders right to the customer’s door step from the nearest amazon warehouse in an hour after placing the order. I think PRIME AIR is going to be a trend setter in the future as far as online delivery systems are concerned.