Originally Posted by
wjcandee
Actually, DHL operates and staffs its hub, whereas ATSG ran the ILN thing at the beginning of Amazon's experiment. Amazon is just a guest at DHL. Amazon has outgrown DHL and wants to sort at times other than when DHL makes its facility available to Amazon. That's why all recent growth in the Prime Air network has been point-to-point, bypassing CVG.
Amazon's new facility will be run by Amazon or a contractor. Little or nothing to do with DHL.
The "ready-to-strike" campaign towards Bezos will accomplish nothing. It's just a feel-good effort by the Union to rally the troops.
A smarter move would be to lobby the military to stand down Atlas from all military flights because the Houston accident could just as easily have been a planeload of troops.
I’m seeing a number of DHL Logistics plain white trucks and trailers going into Amazon fulfillment centers. When this is said and done. DHL will have a full air and ground presence in North America again thru Amazon. Amazon will have an international network thru DHL.