Thought Leadership
Meet the team: Chloe Prescott, Hub Operator, Royal Mail
Since 2023 Skyports and Royal Mail have been operating the UK’s first permanent inter-island drone delivery service, delivering mail to the island residents of Graemsay and Hoy in the Orkney Islands. Here we catch up with Chloe Prescott, one of Royal Mail’s Hub Operators, who works with Skyports’ remote pilots to make the service run like clockwork and help ensure island residents get their essential mail delivered on time.
Meet the Team: Kanyarat Nanthavisit, Regulatory & Safety Associate
Whilst the Regulations and Safety team operates “behind the scenes”, they are critically important to the safe and successful completion of our missions.
Here we speak to our Regs & Safety Associate Kanya to get the inside view from the Regs team – covering some of our latest regulatory “big wins”, to how drone regulations compare to regulations within conventional aviation.
Meet the team: Julia Smith-Vidal, Technical Operations Manager
Having the best technology out there and making sure it’s working right is critical to the success of our operations. Here we catch up with one of our TechOps Managers, Julia, to hear how she keeps our missions running like clockwork.
Meet our team: Tom Brough, Drone Pilot
Drone Pilots play a critical role in our operations, and there’s more to it than you’d think. We sat down with one of our new pilots, Tom Brough, to get the inside scoop on what it’s really like.
Breaking Barriers: Transforming health and logistics with drones in remote Australia
By Scott Wheeler, Head of APAC, Skyports Drone Services. Australia, with its vast landscapes, sprawling coastlines, and widely dispersed population, presents a unique set of challenges, and opportunities, for drones or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). Across healthcare, infrastructure, environmental management, and defence, drones are poised to transform how Australia responds to its geographical realities…
Skyports Drone Services – the year ahead
The real use cases for drone services are proving themselves, while regulatory progress is being made – albeit slower than many of us hoped.
Exploring middle-mile logistics with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
In February 2024, Skyports Drone Services (Skyports) signed a strategic partnership with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to explore middle-mile drone logistics. This Q&A outlines the key parameters of this new collaboration.
Regulatory roadblock: The hidden threat to industry growth
For the global drones industry, the development of a progressive, enabling regulatory environment represents one of the biggest challenges we face to operating – and the biggest facilitator of growth.
Operators, manufacturers and other key stakeholders from across industry rightly need to spend considerable effort in making the case for and contributing to the continued development of regulatory frameworks.
Skyports Drone Services onboards RigiTech to launch inter-island drone deliveries in Korea
Skyports Drone Services has today announced the launch of a new project in Yeosu City, Korea, for the delivery of pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs by drone. The project will be the first time Skyports Drone Services operates flights with new drone partner RigiTech. The Yeosu City drone project, supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and…
Skyports Drone Services’ new drone partner makes debut for Royal Mail delivery project
Skyports Drone Services has today announced Speedbird Aero as new aircraft partner for the Orkney I-Port operation, a drone delivery project established in partnership with Royal Mail, Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Loganair. Speedbird Aero has been selected as the latest aircraft partner to join Skyports Drone Services’ world-class drone fleet. The Brazilian drone…
Building a World Class Fleet
We pride ourselves on the profound knowledge of our remote pilots, who form the backbone of our operations. Our global team of flight operators comprises a remarkable collective of professionals, including ex-competitive drone pilots, former and active military personnel, and trained crewed aircraft pilots. The knowledge and skill they each bring to the table is…
Introducing Mitchell Williams, Skyports’ new Korea Country Manager
In an interview with Skyports new Korea Country Manager, Mitchell Williams, we take a closer look at the adoption of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and Drone Services in Korea, how we anticipate it will take shape, and the impact it will have in one of the world’s innovation powerhouses. Q: You’ve lived in Korea for over…