Doubt it, Bezos will want to stick to the DHL model for as long as possible, possible permanently, to avoid the possibility of future Amazon pilots unionizing.
His modus operandi is to whipsaw pilot groups against each other (saves him tons of $$$) and he knows there’s a risk Amazon pilots would unionize just the way ups pilots did.

 

why do you think your union has the right to tell a company that your union does not have a contract with how to do business? Just like you as a consumer have the right to choose fedex, ups, usps, DHL, to send your packages, so does Amazon. They just send more of them. Your union should be more concerned with having a parent company with three airlines.

Also , UPS and FedEx both hire ACMI carriers to fly their freight during peak times.

 

All true but you may be missing something....

Amazon's time goal is actually shorter than overnight, so they pre-position stuff in local warehouses to accommodate more-immediate local delivery (eventually shooting for hours or minutes with small drones). So they can probably get away with most goods being delivered to the warehouse within days, not hours, of the need being identified. They use software to determine which goods need to be where, and when. From what I can see, the software works pretty well... no joke, their data mining allows them to know that you're going to need something before YOU know (statistically speaking). For the relatively small number of items which are truly overnight from somewhere not local, there's always FDX/UPS... as opposed to trying to duplicate nation-wide overnight express functionality for a small % of their sales.

Economy of scale helps them big-time... they do so much volume that what you might think is a one-off or once-in-a-lifetime purchase, is probably actually going out to several other local customers every day, so they can justify stocking a few in the local warehouse.

Also vertical integration would eventually HAVE to run afoul of the trust-busters... big tech has gotten away with a lot because their vision has outpaced what the regulatory/legal system was designed to handle, but it's bound to catch up eventually.

Bezos has single-handedly revolutionized retail, and he's not done yet, so keep your thinking flexible.

 

True, but only because their respective union contracts allow it.

 

You've seen a handful of 737s in Europe painted in FedEx livery operated by only one carrier.

Edit: Unless you're talking about the feeders. There are also a handful of feeder aircraft being operated by contractors in Europe. Same model in the States.

 

evil Bezos

 

Hard to charge for something you can't deliver.....end up flying alot of free freight that way. It goes something like this., pilots say "we want the contract to say only XXX pilots fly ALL the freight"
company says "ok we hire more pilots and buy more airplanes we only use during peak and pay you half year round "...pilots say ok you can use outside crews/aircraft during peak..give us the money"

 

agreed, but to the point that they are single-Carrier operations, they are not.

also, those contracts are an agreement between fedex/ups and their company employed pilots. Amazon has no such company employed pilots and therefore no agreement with any pilots union.

 

what he said. Amazon employs no pilots. If a subcontractor wants to roger up and do a good job and provide great service to one of the worldss largest cap corporations on the face of the earth, and said corporation continues to throw work at the subcontractor, well god bless America.

no, Besos does not lie awake thinking about how to "screw pilots." He is too busy conquering the world.

Anti-Trust: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/comp...antitrust-laws

Amazon is the textbook definition of an open marketplace. Also, if you don't want to log in, and hit buy, you don't have to. You can drive in your car, and drive down the road like a free citizen, and go to Wal-Mart. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to buy at Amazon. But, see, nobody is. Any just about anything ON Amazon, is indeed sold SOMEWHERE, you just need to hunt it down, via legwork and flipping the yellow pages. You do not HAVE to use Amazon.

But, you probably are anyway. You can buy anything, ship it to your front door, in 2 days.

But in 2020, yesterday's "great business idea" is now an evil monoploy.

AOC and Bernie would be proud of such thinking. How dare we have innovative thinking in this country.

 

+1 I would add that one should strive to get hired by an operator that flies payload under it's own branded name.