Wing touches down in Melbourne

Google’s drone delivery service talks its most ambitious expansion yet.

Google Wing’s drone delivery service launched in Melbourne in July in its most significant international expansion yet. Around 250,000 residents in the city’s eastern suburbs can now order smaller goods from the Eastland Shopping Centre via the DoorDash app. Wing launched commercially in 2019 in Australia and allows for the delivery of packages weighing less than 1.5kg, such as coffees and sandwiches. It’s already making hundreds of thousands of deliveries each year from shopping mall rooftops and supermarket car parks in its original Queensland bases of Ipswich, Logan and the Gold Coast. The new service will initially allow those living in 26 Victorian suburbs to order from 20 shops in the huge Ringwood mall. The news means Melbourne, with a population of over 5 million, is now the biggest city Wing serves globally.

Here, Australian Aviation speaks to Wing’s head of public policy, Jesse Suskin.

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