{"id":144007,"date":"2025-08-14T02:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144007\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T02:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:57:20","slug":"flytrex-to-vastly-expand-dfw-drone-deliveries-after-achieving-game-changing-faa-approval-dallas-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144007\/","title":{"rendered":"Flytrex To ‘Vastly Expand’ DFW Drone Deliveries After Achieving Game-Changing FAA Approval \u00bb Dallas Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Flytrex delivery drone over Granbury, southwest of Fort Worth. [Photo: Flytrex]<\/p>\n

Robots are staking out territory across North Texas\u2014from driverless 18-wheelers<\/a> on I-45 to robotaxis rolling into Dallas<\/a> to sidewalk delivery robots<\/a> to a wide array of drone delivery<\/a> services. Now Flytrex\u2014an Israel-based restaurant drone delivery company that\u2019s been buzzing North Texas skies since early 2022<\/a>\u2014is about to boost its operations here in a big way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flytrex recently became one of just four drone delivery companies to receive FAA approval for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations in the U.S. (The others are Wing<\/a>, Zipline<\/a>, and Amazon. The first two already make drone deliveries in Dallas-Fort Worth, and Amazon is planning to<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

That FAA approval enables Flytrex to expand its service nationwide to the 37 largest metro areas in the U.S., \u201cunlocking the ability to bring drone delivery to over 100 million people,\u201d the company announced today.<\/p>\n

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Flytrex is partnering with DoorDash for food drone deliveries in parts of Frisco and Little Elm. [Photo: Business Wire]<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s services to date in North Texas have included a partnership with Brinker International to deliver chicken wings by drone<\/a> in Granbury, southwest of Fort Worth; partnering with Jersey Mike\u2019s and Subs, Little Caesars Pizza, Papa Johns, Raising Cane\u2019s, and \u201cseveral other\u201d restaurant brands for drone deliveries in Little Elm<\/a>, west of Frisco; and, earlier this summer, partnering with DoorDash<\/a> to fly food from \u201cdozens\u201d of local and national restaurants in Frisco and Little Elm, with region-leading 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. operating hours and \u201cindustry-leading payload capacity\u201d in its delivery drones.<\/p>\n

Drone flights monitored from operations center<\/p>\n

Before getting the new approval, Flytrex had to observe FAA regulations that required visual observers on the ground tracking each drone throughout its flight. Now, with the BVLOS approval, Flytrex can monitor multiple drones remotely from a single operations center, \u201cincreasing delivery throughput while dramatically reducing operational costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter nearly a decade of development, this BVLOS approval transforms our entire business model,\u201d Flytrex Co-Founder and CEO Yariv Bash said in a statement. \u201cWe can now outperform any other traditional on-demand delivery method\u2014monitoring fleets of drones from centralized command centers rather than posting observers across delivery zones. With BVLOS, we can now build the infrastructure to bring drone delivery to 100 million Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bash was the co-founder and team leader of SpaceIL, a Tel Aviv nonprofit that in 2019\u00a0helped lead Israel\u2019s first mission to the moon<\/a>. The Beresheet (Genesis) robotic moon lander made it to the moon but crashed on its surface, missing out on the $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With its new FAA approval, Flytrex said it plans to \u201cvastly expand\u201d its operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, with plans to add \u201cdozens of new sites\u201d in the region by the end of 2025. The company aims to \u201ccover the entire metro area\u201d in the next 12 months as part of its plans to scale nationwide.<\/p>\n

To date, Flytrex says it has completed over 200,000 deliveries across Texas and North Carolina, \u201ctransforming last-mile logistics for suburban communities with affordable, scalable access to aerial delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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