Wing and Walmart Expand Drone Delivery to Seven New U.S. Cities, Pushing Toward Nearly 20 Markets
Alphabet's Wing added Memphis, Phoenix, San Diego and four other metros to its Walmart drone network, citing more than a million commercial deliveries.
Overview
Wing, the drone-delivery company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Walmart have named seven new U.S. cities for their drone-delivery service, according to a Wing announcement. The expansion brings the partnership’s total service footprint to nearly 20 U.S. markets and marks one of the largest single moves yet by a consumer drone-delivery operator.
The seven new markets are Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City, as listed by Wing and confirmed by DRONELIFE and TechCrunch.
What We Know
The service currently operates in Dallas-Fort Worth, Metro Atlanta, and Greater Houston, according to DRONELIFE. Wing says it has previously announced plans for Orlando, Tampa, Charlotte, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Miami as well, per the Wing announcement.
The companies said their broader goal is to reach more than 40 million Americans through a network of over 270 locations by 2027, as reported by DRONELIFE. Wing and Walmart first announced in January 2026 plans to scale drone delivery coast to coast, according to the Wing announcement.
Wing says it has now completed well over one million commercial deliveries, per the Wing announcement, and TechCrunch reports that the top 25% of customers use the service three times weekly. Customers can order tens of thousands of eligible Walmart items — everything from last-minute ingredients to electronics and household essentials, according to The Drone Girl.
The aircraft cruise at up to 60 mph and lower packages to a yard or driveway using a tether, with deliveries completed in as little as 30 minutes, according to DRONELIFE.
“Our work with Walmart has shown that drone delivery isn’t just a novelty, it’s a service many customers count on multiple times per week,” said Heather Rivera, Wing’s Chief Business Officer, in the Wing announcement.
“Expanding into new markets with Wing allows us to provide an innovative delivery option for customers, utilizing our vast store network to make everyday shopping and fulfilling last-minute needs just a little bit easier,” said Greg Cathey, Senior Vice President of eCommerce Fulfillment Transformation at Walmart U.S., according to DRONELIFE.
What We Don’t Know
Neither company has published a market-by-market launch timeline for the seven new cities or specified how many Walmart stores in each metro will host drone operations at launch. The announcement also did not detail per-delivery economics or the payload weight limit for the service.
Analysis
The pace of Wing’s rollout stands out against the broader U.S. drone-delivery field. Amazon’s competing Prime Air program had made only roughly 16,000 deliveries as of February 2026 and operated in five states — Texas, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, and Kansas — handling items weighing five pounds or less, according to Wikipedia’s Amazon Prime Air entry. Wing’s claim of more than one million commercial deliveries, as stated in the Wing announcement, suggests its tethered, store-anchored model has reached a scale that few rivals have matched. Whether that volume translates into sustainable per-delivery economics across nearly 20 markets remains the open question the companies have yet to address publicly.