Amazon Opens New CVG Hub
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Air Transport Amazon Opens Cincinnati Air Freight Hub by Gregory Polek - August 11, 2021, 10:15 AM Amazon on Wednesday began operations from its new air hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport after more than four years of planning and construction. The operation will serve as the central hub for Amazon Air’s U.S. cargo network. The $1.5 billion investment included a new ramp for aircraft parking and an 800,000-square-foot sorting facility situated on a 600-acre campus. Amazon Air has expanded its presence in the U.S. to more than 40 locations and launched its European air hub in 2020 at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport. In January, Amazon bought seven Boeing 767-300s from Delta Air Lines and four from Canada’s WestJet as it moved to expand its air transport network to meet surging demand during the Covid-19 crisis and beyond. These deals marked the online retailer’s first direct aircraft purchases. The four former WestJet aircraft, which underwent passenger-to-cargo conversion, have joined Amazon’s network and the ex-Delta jets will begin flying freight for the online retailer in 2022, the company added. All will fly for third-party carriers. Amazon launched its air transport subsidiary as a means to circumvent and compete against freight giants such as UPS and FedEx Express in 2016, when it signed a seven-year lease deal covering 20 Boeing 767s with Delaware-based air cargo service provider ATSG. Company subsidiaries ABX Air, a Part 121 cargo airline, and charter carrier Air Transport International, operate the airplanes for Amazon. That same year Atlas Air Worldwide signed a deal with Amazon to fly 20 Boeing 767-300s for the online retailer under a 10-year lease deal that grants Amazon rights to acquire as much as 30 percent of the cargo carrier. Amazon’s contract carriers now fly a total of 73 airplanes, including 22 Boeing 737-800BCFs. |
Originally Posted by shroomwell
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Amazon launched its air transport subsidiary as a means to circumvent and compete against freight giants such as UPS and FedEx Express in 2016, when it signed a seven-year lease deal covering 20 Boeing 767s with Delaware-based air cargo service provider ATSG.
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Originally Posted by Reactivity
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When "journalists" forget that multiple states might have cities with the same name and can't be bothered to do any actual research.
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Originally Posted by WhipWhitaker
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To be fair, ATSG is probably incorporated in Delaware.
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Two thirds of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware. Has no relationship to where they operate. A lot like where pilots live and where they are based.
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Originally Posted by Twin Wasp
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Two thirds of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware. Has no relationship to where they operate. A lot like where pilots live and where they are based.
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