Alaska Air will take over cargo transportation for e-commerce giant Amazon when it concludes a deal announced Sunday to acquire Hawaiian Airlines in a stock-and-debt transaction worth $1.9 billion. Whether the Amazon transportation services agreement is eventually modified is unclear, but Alaska’s CEO said it could spur further investment in freighters.
“For now, nothing changes,” said Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Alex Da Silva in an email.
Hawaiian Airlines (NASDAQ: HA) in early October began...