If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em. That, apparently, is the attitude of Brussels Airport, which has taken a 50% stake in a specialized service startup that provides safe and efficient operation of the very drones currently banned in the air around Belgium’s busiest aviation hub.
Brussels Airport Company, which operates the eponymous aerial platform, announced it had taken the 50% position in SkeyDrones, a company offering software-based services that help drone operators and authorities manage safe and efficient drone flights. Not coincidentally, SkeyDrones is also an affiliate of skeyes, the air traffic control group that assures passenger planes in and out of Brussels Airport are taking off and landing in peaceful coexistence.
The new corporate ménage à trois aims to permit Brussels Airport Company and skeye to fully tap into the swiftly ascending business potentials of drones, while still keeping that out of the way of their primary commercial…
