On another interesting note Amazon just opened it's first brick and mortar "Book Store" in Seattle,WA near the Univ. of WA? Interesting that the company that ran a lots of bookstores out of business now decides to opnen one?

A portfolio of contractors will allow them to screw up a very good business model by not RELIABLY getting your stuff there on time. (i.e., DHL) They had reliability problems using the ACMI bunch.

Pipe

It's amusing watching the Bezos fanbois.:D

I disagree with your assertion that ACMI equal unreliability. I will make the argument that ACMI gives better reliability than an inhouse airline. The reason is that if the ACMI has strict performance goals written into it's contract and if they fail to meet those, they risk being replaced by a contractor who will, with the subsequent loss of flying and probable furloughs of said pilots.

If you knew your job depended on you blocking out and arriving at a certain time, you'd do whatever it took to make it happen. If that means liberal interpretation of the regs to ensure ontime performance, then so be it.

That is just what our industry needs is more thinking like this.:rolleyes:

No kidding...one level of safety except to enrichen an arrogant billionaire who will regard him as a forth rate pilot willing to sell out his safety. And he's salivating for the chance to do so.

Brilliance...sheer brilliance.

A quick internet search revealed that, for UPS anyway, no single customer accounted for more than 10% of Brown's total revenue. Doesn't seem like Amazon is that critical to their survival and don't forget that FedEx and UPS were around and thriving long before Amazon and Google came along. Doubt Amazon could realize cheaper shipping rates running their own shipping company; they don't have the economies of scale that Brown and Purple have so they'd also have to ship non-Amazon product. Not sure why a glorified Sears catalog company would want to morph into an international shipping company. Seems cheaper and with less risk to just outsource the majority of its distribution.

Disclosure-I was a science major.

This is known as, "whistling past the graveyard.'

Excerpt: glorified Sears catalog company (meaning Amazon)

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