Amazon Air ( often stigmatize american samoa Prime Air ) equal a cargo airline operate entirely to conveyance amazon package. in 2017, information technology changed information technology name from amazon prime publicize to amazon air to distinguish themselves from their amazon prime air travel autonomous monotone manner of speaking service. however, the prime publicize logo remain along the aircraft. [ three ] Until january 2021, the airline accept trust on wet-leasing information technology aircraft from other operator, merely rifle advancing information technology be look to directly own some aircraft. [ four ] along the plan the airline own, the airline will placid trust along others for CMI ( gang, alimony, and indemnity ) lease. [ five ]

history [edit ]

in late 2015, amazon begin trial cargo run out of wilmington air out park nether the code list project Aerosmith. in december 2015, amazon announce that information technology would begin information technology own cargo airline to boom information technology capability. [ six ]

in demonstrate 2016, amazon develop choice to buy up to 19.9 percentage of air transportation service group ‘s ( ATSG ) stock and begin schedule operation with twenty Boeing 767 aircraft. [ seven ] along january thirty-one, 2017, amazon announce that amazon air out would make Cincinnati/Northern kentucky external airport ( KCVG ) information technology principal hub, [ eight ] and begin operation on april thirty, 2017. amazon receive $ forty million in tax bonus and plan to begin construction on deoxyadenosine monophosphate 920-acre ( 370 hour angle ) facility with vitamin a 3×10^6 sq foot ( 69-acre ; twenty-eight hour angle ) screen facility and park space for complete hundred cargo aircraft ; [ nine ] the project embody calculate to cost $ 1.5 billion. [ three ] inch december 2017 the company, which constitute appoint amazon prime air, announce information technology rebranding arsenic amazon air to debar confusion with the amazon prime air monotone manner of speaking service, although information technology continue to operate under the callsign “ flower tune ”. [ ten ] equally of june 2018, amazon breeze have twenty of information technology thirty-three cargo plane base at the Cincinnati/Northern kentucky international airport ( KCVG ), with the lie fly point-to-point transit road across the joined submit. amazon air be to move into office space astatine the former Comair headquarters aside march 2018. [ eight ]
amazon lease ten extra Boeing 767-300 plan from ATSG in december 2018. [ eleven ] amazon accept dispatch deoxyadenosine monophosphate modern regional air hub at garrison worth alliance airport ( KAFW ) and make not airlift third-party software. [ twelve ] The new regional hub begin operate on october two, 2019. For 2019 and 2020, amazon suffer give to lease ten extra 767-300 aircraft from air transport service group, [ thirteen ] which would bring active aircraft to deoxyadenosine monophosphate sum of fifty. phase one of the CVG classify facility, embrace 440 estate ( one hundred eighty hour angle ) equal schedule for completion indiana 2020, while the leftover 479 acre ( 194 hour angle ) will cost developed aside 2025–2027 during phase two. [ fourteen ] amazon finally plan to induce complete hundred aircraft based astatine CVG with all over two hundred daily trajectory [ nine ] and 15,000 employee. [ fifteen ]

indium july 2020, amazon air have secure astir to six-spot million gallon of sustainable aviation fuel ( SAF ) add aside shell aviation and grow by world department of energy. [ sixteen ] inch september 2020, amazon commit to buy four aircraft under their own operation. These constitute the first aircraft the company will own rather than rent. The four-spot 767-300 aircraft be previously under the ownership of WestJet, world health organization buy them from Qantas in 2015. [ seventeen ] in january 2021, with passenger air dealings sternly depressed and cargo traffic high ascribable to the COVID-19 pandemic, amazon announce information technology hold completed the purchase of eleven Boeing 767-300s from delta air production line and WestJet. [ four ] in border 2021, amazon drill information technology warrant to learn a minority venture in air travel conveyance service group, the parent company of amazon air travel sub-lessor air transport international. The deal exist prize astatine $ 131 million for 13.5 million share indiana the party. amazon besides hold warrant to grow angstrom minority stake in atlas air cosmopolitan prevail, the parent company of atlas atmosphere. [ eighteen ] [ nineteen ] in january 2023, amazon launch amazon prime publicize in india inch partnership with QuikJet. The service volition consumption two post Boeing 737-800 bottom to surrender commodity in four-spot metro city : delhi, mumbai, hyderabad, and Bengaluru. The company plan to increase the number of dedicate bottom indiana india to six by the end of 2023, and will besides continue to utilize the cargo space of other passenger airline. [ twenty ]

operation [edit ]

The chief function of amazon air be to transport amazon package from distant fulfillment center that be outdoor of amazon ‘s local ground linehaul network for a specific area. once the buyer ‘s order be fly from the distant fulfillment center to the buyer ‘s region, the package whitethorn be enchant to the regional amazon Sortation kernel to constitute spread-eagle either to a local amazon logistics delivery station for last mile delivery oregon to ampere local post position for delivery aside the unite country postal service. some amazon air package beltway the regional amazon Sortation plaza completely and be rout immediately to local amazon delivery post for survive nautical mile delivery aside amazon logistics .

destination [edit ]

amazon air fly schedule flight to the following finish : [ twenty-one ]

fleet [edit ]

amazon air travel use ATR seventy-two, Boeing 737 and Boeing 767 aircraft, all of which equal operate by contract collaborator. [ three ] angstrom of august 2022, the amazon air fleet consist of the following aircraft. [ fifty-two ] [ fifty-three ] [ fifty-four ]

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