Amazon buys 11 jets for 1st time to ship orders quicker

Amazon mentioned Tuesday that it purchased 11 jets from Delta and WestJet airways to spice up its rising supply community and get orders to customers quicker.
The firm mentioned it’s the primary time it has bought planes for its supply community. Over the previous couple of years, Amazon has been leasing planes to construct its fleet.
“Having a mix of both leased and owned aircraft in our growing fleet allows us to better manage our operations,” mentioned Sarah Rhoads, vice chairman of Amazon Global Air, in a weblog submit.
Seattle-based Amazon has been working to ship most of its packages itself and rely much less on UPS, the U.S. Postal Service and different carriers. Besides its fleet of planes, Amazon has additionally constructed a number of package-sorting hubs at airports, opened warehouses nearer to the place customers stay and launched a program that lets contractors begin companies delivering packages in vans stamped with the Amazon brand.

Amazon mentioned the 11 planes, all of that are Boeing 767-300s, can be transformed to carry cargo as an alternative of passengers. The 4 jets that it’s shopping for from WestJet will be a part of Amazon’s fleet this 12 months, and the seven from Delta can be prepared by subsequent 12 months. The purchases will convey its complete fleet to 85 planes by 2022.
Amazon.com Inc. declined to say how a lot it’s paying for the planes.