Also, here’s part of the Business Insider article that was omitted...
Moreover, Amazon's 50 planes - or even its potential for up to 100 by 2025 - doesn't quite stack up to the 550-plus aircraft that UPS owns or leases or FedEx's fleet of 678. And while the Seattle-based e-commerce has 760 flights per week, UPS has 16,100, according to a UPS spokesperson.
And some analysts like Bernstein's David Vernon doubt that customers would want to use Amazon Air. He wrote that airport-to-airport, Amazon Air is cheaper than UPS or FedEx because of Amazon Air pilots' lower salaries. However, FedEx and UPS are still more cost effective door-to-door.
"(I)t is reasonable to conclude that this service is neither a replacement for a FedEx of UPS network nor is it a viable commercial alternative for third party shippers," Vernon wrote in an analyst note in December 2018.
Amazon did not provide a comment.