Regulations and weak demand stall progress of Amazon’s drone business

March 15, 2023: Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service, which has been in development for a decade, began testing in two small markets at the end of 2022, marking a step closer to its founder Jeff Bezos’ vision of drone delivery. However, since then, progress has been slow, with Prime Air required to complete several hundred hours of flying without any incidents and submit that data to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees the approval process for commercial deliveries.