Amazon Launches Anchorage Flights
 

From Air Cargo World. Expansion and onward to/from Asia next?

Amazon launches Anchorage flights

Chelsea ToczauerJune 24, 2019

Airports, Americas, Asia Pacific, Carriers, E-Commerce, News

Amazon Air will begin flights to Anchorage International Airport (ANC) later this week, on June 27. According to a post ANC published on Twitter last week, Amazon Air will operate daily services to the airport utilizing its 767 freighter network.

The e-tailer will operate out of ANC’s Kulis Business Park, south of the airport’s east-west runways, according to the post.

While the move further expands Amazon’s growth of its network in the United States and its delivery services within Alaska, the move also offers a potential starting point for Amazon to seek to expand its presence in Asia moving forward. ANC followed the initial news with a tweet stating that the airport “is perfectly situated to support the movement of e-commerce goods between Asia and North America, and this new business fits with our strategy of maximizing ANC potential for development.”

Amazon has issued no statement to that effect thus far, though China would clearly be an attractive market for the e-commerce giant. However, Amazon would face tough competition from local Chinese express carriers, including the logistics arm of Amazon’s Chinese competitor, Cainiao, which is making its own efforts to go global.

ANC’s statement is more likely meant to support the airport’s efforts to attract carriers and further develop e-commerce and perishable volumes moving through the airport. Earlier this year, ANC announced plans to construct new facilities in support of its transfer program. In the past year, the airport has also welcomed the operations of Chinese express carrier, SF Express, as well as increased frequencies from Cathay Pacific and Cargolux.

That's interesting. However, not much ramp space over at Kulis for 767s if they want to park more than a couple over there at a time.. They may end up mixing in with the foreign freighters on the Romeos.

Romeos are a "No Loading/Unloading" zone.

Amazon basically has unlimited monies to do what it wants

All the money in the world but not enough to pay the pilots that fly for them industry standard pay!

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Sit back and watch. Mesa will soon be the first regional that you can fly a 737 at, not bad for an entry level job for a flight instructor with 1500 hours.
I don't like it any more than you do, with the whipsaw coming. It is coming.

Doesn’t anybody know who is operating these flights? I’m assuming not Atlas, because they use the ramp on the north side. ABX, or ATI maybe? Any idea where the flights originate?

No pilot is employed by Amazon. "Industry standard pay" is not their problem.

It's not ABX.

There's no reason it can't be Atlas. It's possible for one company to be on two different ramps for different operations.