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Amazon Air may be on the hunt for more cargo planes as it takes delivery of 40th aircraft
Amazon, which on Monday took delivery of the 40th and final Boeing 767 cargo plane leased under deals announced in 2016, is said to be seeking more aircraft to move packages between its warehouses and facilities that ship them on to customers.
Amazon on Monday took delivery of the 40th and final plane in a lease deal for its expanding air-cargo operation. More may be on the way.
A senior executive at an aircraft lessor said Amazon was shopping around for more Boeing 767 freighters and had put out a request for proposals for an additional six jets earlier this year. It’s unclear how far along Amazon is in that process. A spokeswoman declined to comment.
Amazon jumped into the airfreight business in 2016, striking a deal with Air Transport Services Group to lease 20 used Boeing 767 cargo jets.
Two months later, it announced its intentions to lease 20 more planes, this time from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings. That deal also granted Amazon the option to purchase as much as 20 percent of the Purchase, New York-based company, and an additional 10 percent should Amazon increase its business with Atlas.
Amazon took delivery of the final aircraft from Atlas on Monday at a ceremony at an airport in Long Beach, Calif.
Sarah Rhoads, director of Amazon Air, said in an interview earlier this year that she was focused on integrating the new aircraft into Amazon’s expanding logistics operations before the arrival of the peak U.S. holiday shopping season. Still, the 40th delivery represents “impressive growth,” and “is kind of a noteworthy milestone,” she added.
Potentially complicating Amazon’s search for more jets is a tight market for Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, the result of a lack of used passenger models available for conversion, said the aircraft-lessor executive, who requested anonymity to preserve business relationships. He speculated that Amazon may end up turning to the Airbus A330 freighter to expand its fleet more quickly. Bloomberg News reported earlier this year that potential interest from Amazon and UPS had spurred Airbus to consider a freighter variant of the new, neo-branded variant of the widebody aircraft.
Amazon Air’s fleet takes packages bound for customers to regional Amazon sortation centers, part of the “middle mile” journey in logistics speak. At sort centers, workers group items going to the same area for handoff to an Amazon local delivery hub or U.S. Postal Service office for last-mile delivery.
“We’re that elastic band in the middle mile,” Rhoads said.
The company, she says, continues to rely on traditional carriers like UPS and FedEx. But in recent years Amazon’s need to move goods around its fast-growing logistics network meant “we have to satisfy that internally as well.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...planes-as-it-takes-delivery-of-40th-aircraft/
A senior executive at an aircraft lessor said Amazon was shopping around for more Boeing 767 freighters and had put out a request for proposals for an additional six jets earlier this year. It’s unclear how far along Amazon is in that process. A spokeswoman declined to comment.
Amazon jumped into the airfreight business in 2016, striking a deal with Air Transport Services Group to lease 20 used Boeing 767 cargo jets.
Two months later, it announced its intentions to lease 20 more planes, this time from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings. That deal also granted Amazon the option to purchase as much as 20 percent of the Purchase, New York-based company, and an additional 10 percent should Amazon increase its business with Atlas.
Amazon took delivery of the final aircraft from Atlas on Monday at a ceremony at an airport in Long Beach, Calif.
Sarah Rhoads, director of Amazon Air, said in an interview earlier this year that she was focused on integrating the new aircraft into Amazon’s expanding logistics operations before the arrival of the peak U.S. holiday shopping season. Still, the 40th delivery represents “impressive growth,” and “is kind of a noteworthy milestone,” she added.
Potentially complicating Amazon’s search for more jets is a tight market for Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, the result of a lack of used passenger models available for conversion, said the aircraft-lessor executive, who requested anonymity to preserve business relationships. He speculated that Amazon may end up turning to the Airbus A330 freighter to expand its fleet more quickly. Bloomberg News reported earlier this year that potential interest from Amazon and UPS had spurred Airbus to consider a freighter variant of the new, neo-branded variant of the widebody aircraft.
Amazon Air’s fleet takes packages bound for customers to regional Amazon sortation centers, part of the “middle mile” journey in logistics speak. At sort centers, workers group items going to the same area for handoff to an Amazon local delivery hub or U.S. Postal Service office for last-mile delivery.
“We’re that elastic band in the middle mile,” Rhoads said.
The company, she says, continues to rely on traditional carriers like UPS and FedEx. But in recent years Amazon’s need to move goods around its fast-growing logistics network meant “we have to satisfy that internally as well.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...planes-as-it-takes-delivery-of-40th-aircraft/
Amazon Air (US) fleet will grow its Prime Air fleet to about 200 planes — up from 42 now — in the next seven or eight years, according to a report.
Con i 767 phase out di AA non fatico a credere; inoltre il lockdown ci ha dato l’opportunità’ di acquistare su Amazon cose che non immaginavamo fossero disponibili e d’ora in poi continueremo ad ordinarle nello stesso modo, per la gioia di JB e il suo net worth.
Vorrei essere stato uno di quei 40 investitori a cui chiese $ 50k each per espandersi tanti anni fa’.