From "AIN Online":

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.

 

When "journalists" forget that multiple states might have cities with the same name and can't be bothered to do any actual research.

 

To be fair, ATSG is probably incorporated in Delaware. Hopefully that’s what they meant, although I agree with the state of “journalism” these days.

 

Turns out it is. Who knew?

 

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.

 

Delaware has the most business friendly incorporations laws in the entire country. Like most cargo ships are flag registered in Panama.