Remote Caribbean islands can now get pizza delivered by plane

Sometimes, you seriously need a pizza.

Although Amazon is itching to deliver the world goods with drones, there are some places in the world where a drone makes no sense, like the small islands of Saba and St. Eustatius in the Caribbean. But starting this month, they can get pizza delivered, by plane of course.

Bottom, the capital city of Saba island

After an April Fools' joke of helicopter pizza delivery left pizza-craving islanders thinking wishfully, a Dominos pizza outlet in the St. Maarten airport has officially teamed up with the airline Winair to offer small, neighboring islands pizza delivered by plane. And since the service launched earlier this month, it has become quite popular — with several requests per day.

A Winair aircraft

The food service is taking advantage of existing flights already scheduled to the islands. So when a customer calls to order a pizza, they are able to pick an arrival time and the pizza is baked right before departure. Typical fight times range from 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the island and weather conditions.

Chicken pepperoni pizza from Domino's Pizza

So what will this cost? As of right now, the delivery fee will only set customers back $2.75, which is just under four Singapore dollars. The only downside is how jealous plane passengers will be when the delicious pizza smell takes over the plane's cabin.

An American Airlines aircraft on its final approach to St Maarten's Juliana airport

Unfortunately, for pizza enthusiasts, they'll still have to drive to the airport in order to pick up their pizza from Winair, but that's better than no pizza at all!

To find out how to get free pizzas for a year, click here!

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