• DoorDash and Flytrex partner to offer drone delivery for dozens of restaurants, covering over 30,000 households in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
  • The service, operational from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., is enabled by recent FAA approval for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations.
  • The partnership marks a significant scaling of drone-based last-mile logistics, with Flytrex aiming to eventually reach 100 million people nationwide.

DoorDash Inc. has significantly expanded its automated delivery capabilities through a new partnership with drone technology firm Flytrex, launching a large-scale service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The collaboration, which went live in June 2025, allows customers to receive orders from a wide selection of restaurants delivered directly by drone, a move that could reshape the economics of last-mile delivery.

The service is currently available to more than 30,000 households, with drones capable of carrying payloads of up to 6.6 pounds from a central operations center. According to people familiar with the company's roadmap, future drone models are being developed to handle payloads of up to 8.8 pounds. Flytrex CEO and Co-Founder Yariv Bash stated that the recent regulatory progress has been a "game-changer" for the industry, enabling the company to monitor its fleet from a remote center instead of relying on visual observers at each site.

This expansion was unlocked by a critical regulatory milestone: the Federal Aviation Administration's approval for Flytrex to conduct Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. This approval drastically reduces operational costs and complexity, allowing for the scalable, commercial deployment that had previously eluded many drone delivery ventures. A spokesperson for DoorDash cited the company's ongoing commitment to "exploring innovative delivery solutions to better serve our customers" but declined to provide specific financial details of the partnership.

The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex was selected due to its regulatory openness and favorable airspace, creating an ideal testing ground for this next phase of automated logistics. Flytrex, which has already completed over 200,000 deliveries to date, aims to use this partnership as a springboard for nationwide expansion. The company has stated its ambition is to eventually extend its service to cover 100 million people across the United States.

This move places DoorDash at the forefront of a competitive race to automate delivery, a sector where margins are notoriously thin. While other players like Uber Eats have tested drone pilots that failed to scale and Walmart continues its own experiments, the DoorDash-Flytrex partnership represents one of the most comprehensive commercial deployments to date. The long-term implications for labor costs, delivery speed, and urban traffic patterns are substantial, though the full impact on the gig-economy workforce remains a topic of industry debate. Efforts to reach Uber Eats for comment on its own drone strategy were unsuccessful.