Amazon Air launched cargo operations in Maui and on Hawaii Island last week to help facilitate speedier deliveries for Prime customers.
The retail giant’s two newest regional gateways are at Kahului Airport and Kona International Airport, the company said in a news release shared with FreightWaves that hasn’t been posted on its website. It first announced the start of air cargo operations in a tweet last week.
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) in-house airline is now operating daily flights from its...
Mesa Airlines, a regional passenger airline, expects its cargo business with DHL Express to quickly grow and become profitable by proving it can meet linehaul delivery requirements for the burgeoning e-commerce sector, Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein said Monday.
Mesa (NASDAQ: MESA), the first regional airline in the U.S. to enter the narrow-body cargo business, could be operating 10 aircraft for the express delivery company within 18 months if plans proceed as expected, he said.
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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) inaugurated its new regional air hub near Tampa, Florida, with the arrival of the first freighter flight on Thursday.
The 42-acre air terminal is at Lakeland Linder International Airport, a general aviation airport. Amazon operates a large fulfillment center in Lakeland, which is chock full of distribution centers.
Amazon invested more than $100 million in the 285,000-square-foot air cargo complex, which includes ramp space for seven all-cargo planes, city officials stated...
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The union representing pilots at all-cargo carrier Atlas Air (NASDAQ: AAWW) strenuously objected to investigators’ findings that mistakes by the captain contributed to a deadly crash last year, blaming the company and aviation regulators for allegedly letting an unqualified co-pilot fly commercial aircraft.
A National Transportation Safety Board draft report this week attributed the accident’s probable cause to errors by the first officer in response to inadvertent activation of a switch that...
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Amazon’s air cargo operation is contributing to meet the company’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2040 with an agreement to purchase up to six million gallons of jet fuel made from renewable sources.
The fuel blend, which includes feedstock of agricultural waste fats and oils, has the ability to reduce Amazon Air’s carbon emissions by 22%, Sarah Rhodes, vice president of Amazon Global Air said on a video describing the initiative and showing Prime planes being loaded with cargo and refueled.
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The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing next month as part of its investigation into the probable cause of an Atlas Air cargo plane that crashed in February 2019 in a marshy bay near Houston.
The Boeing 767-300 freighter was operated by Atlas under contract with online mega-retailer Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and was also carrying mail for the U.S. Postal Service. It was flying to George Bush Intercontinental Airport from Miami when it went down, killing the two pilots and one...
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Amazon’s announcement that it will lease 12 all-cargo aircraft from a key contract carrier demonstrates how the online retail and logistics giant has created a formidable private airline in the span of four years to keep up with the enormous growth of e-commerce.
The additional Boeing 767 freighters will expand Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) fleet beyond 80 aircraft by the end of 2021, and a new report from researchers at DePaul University in Chicago estimates Amazon Air could have about 200 aircraft...
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As expected, Amazon’s newest air hub will be in San Bernardino, California, where feeder aircraft from various cities and trucks from nearby warehouses will arrive with packages to be sorted and redistributed nationwide on outbound airplanes.
The San Bernardino International Airport authority made the announcement Friday, confirming what had been an open secret about who would occupy a 700,000-square foot campus with additional space for 14 all-cargo aircraft.
Developer Hillwood Enterprises began...
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