India’s leading drone delivery firm, Skye Air partnered with Flipkart Health to deliver medicines in Kolkata & Sub-urbs
Enabling India’s first warehouse to OTC medicine delivery on India’s 75th Independence Day
Leading drone delivery firm, Skye Air Mobility partnered with Flipkart Health, a pharma business division of Flipkart Internet (India’s leading ecommerce platform), to deliver medicines by drone. The collaboration kicked off with the launch of BVLOS flights from Flipkart Health warehouse in Baruipur, West Bengal to multiple Health Buddy OTC locations within Kolkata & Sub-urbs.
This initiative shall witness up to 20 (twenty) flights every day, each carrying a payload up to 5 kgs of medicines to be delivered from the Warehouse to 10 (ten) Health Buddy OTC locations very widespread in the region. The maximum distance to be covered by the flight will be 16 Kms aerial (24 kms by road). The trials will continue till 8th September 2022.
Skye Air shall be using its most reliable UAV, Skye Ship One, to facilitate real-time deliveries ensuring optimal flight safety and throughout temperature monitoring. The company shall also be using Artemis, to deliver medicines in far-reach areas thus creating an inter-city/district model for Flipkart Health.
Commenting on its collaboration, Mr. Ankit Kumar, CEO, Skye Air Mobility, said, "On India’s 75th Independence Day, here we celebrate the adoption of drone delivery technology to reach and benefit the masses. We are extremely proud on our collaboration with Flipkart Health to enable faster delivery of medicines to the citizens of West Bengal. Drones are faster, sustainable, more accessible, cost-effective to operate and capable of doing multiple deliveries in a day. With the ongoing BVLOS trials, we anticipate to gather more data on route, flight, cost-economic viability in order to develop models for commercial flights to begin in the next few months."
Further he added “The world is transitioning to sustainable mobility and on this Independence Day, it serves as a great example of how two companies (Skye Air & Flipkart Health) are giving shape to sustainable transportation solutions to reach Net Zero. It has been proven that Drone Delivery can reduce more than 50% carbon emission for the similar km/kg payload delivery via conventional trucks.”
Founded in 2020, Skye Air is India’s leading Drone Delivery company with base of operations in NCR and Telangana. The company has successfully operated over 1500 flights delivering healthcare, ecommerce, quick commerce and agri-commodity products. The company has also conducted Asia’s longest BVLOS flight of 70 kms between Uttarkashi and Dehradun (Uttarakhand) delivering diagnostic samples.