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Troubled Amazon drone delivery program faces latest challenge: Annoyed residents

Amazon is seeking FAA approval to expand its drone delivery service in College Station, Texas, but many residents aren't too happy.

A mix of regulatory hurdles, missed deadlines and layoffs last year, coinciding with widespread cost-cutting efforts by CEO Andy Jassy, has halted progress of the ambitious service, which was conceived of by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos more than a decade ago. "Since locating in College Station, residents in neighborhoods adjacent to Prime Air's facility have expressed concern to the City Council regarding drone noise levels, particularly during take-off and landing, as well as in some delivery operations," Nichols wrote. "It is waking us up and disrupting our ability to enjoy both our outdoor and even our indoor spaces," said Alikhan, an internal medicine doctor who lives with her husband in a neighborhood a few hundred feet from Amazon's drone airport in College Station.

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