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Amazon is rapidly expanding its air fleet to handle more of its own shipping
Amazon is becoming a player in the logistics and shipping industry. That's what analysts think about the recent expansion of Amazon Air to include 50 planes and several new regional hubs, including a $1.5 billion hub opening in northern Kentucky in 2021. (www.cnbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Snarky: Should we start a pool about how long it takes until Amazon treats their pilots like they do their line workers?
As Amazon does not have a FAA airline authority, Amazon contracts with 3 airlines to carry their packages. Atlas Air ( the one that crashed), ABEX Airlines and Air Transport International. It has been this way from the beginning of Amazon using aircraft with their paint and name on the aircraft. This is the same as DHL does in the USA using many US airlines with DHL paint on the aircraft. DHL uses these 3 airlines and others. Common in the cargo world.
Um...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/24/amazon-prime-air-cargo-plane-crash-one-body-recovered-search-ongoing/2971795002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/24/amazon-prime-air-cargo-plane-crash-one-body-recovered-search-ongoing/2971795002/
...free enterprise. :)
since the time this article and the discussion on it was posted,a boeing767 used as part of the amazon delivery fleet crashed into the bay off galveston, texas about 30 minutes from arrival at bush international..I believe it was from a group called atlas,but it was being used as prime air for amazon..the recovery process is slow because the area is very close to the beach and is mainly swamp grass and mud..there were 3 crew members onboard, and all three perished..news outlets have not yet reported on a cause as the ntsb and faa are still investigating...sympathy to the famililes of this crew..
One news outlet stated they were trying to avoid "weather". We will need to wait to see what the definition of weather is.
If you look at the trace of the flight, they were at least twenty miles from the line. I’m baffled