Amazon’s drone delivery dream evaporates

Source: UAS Vision

4 August 2021

Delivery and logistics

Drone operations and regulations

UAM services and infrastructure

Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business. Well over 100 employees at Amazon Prime Air have lost their jobs and dozens of other roles are moving to other projects abroad as the company shutters part of its operation in the UK, WIRED understands. Insiders claim the future of the UK operation, which launched in 2016 to help pioneer Amazon’s global drone delivery efforts, is now uncertain.