Project Aerosmith Europe

More evidence that Amazon is testing European logistics network | Air Cargo World

 

Here comes Amazon...

http://m.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2015/12/24/this-is-how-amazon-is-taking-control-of-delivery.html

 

This is due to the fact that they are building a large facility in the Columbus area. I think it has something to do with their cloud services.

 

Thousands of shiny new rigs. 20 767's. A forgotten OH airfield. What could possibly go wrong?

 

I just received one of my orders. Ordered through Amazon, sent by the US Mail, shipped via AUS-MEM-IAD. Everybody wins. Not to worry, I did not pay for overnight when I ordered it on the 23rd. Thanks to the FDX pilots who performed 95% of the work (in the classic physics definition of work) in delivering it.

 

Ghost of Christmas past v. ghost of Christmas yet to be…
50 million prime subscribers now rumored (proprietary of course), this story only gets bigger. If the jets are the sizzle, the trucks are the steak. How they get deployed, better yet how effectively, good reading on Kindle in the year ahead. Interested in squeezing the last logistical mile, eh? How about the last earnings dollar?

 

ASL is the company bidding to take over the TNT network when FedEx's purchase is complete. Wonder how FedEx feels about ASL doing amazon flying?

From Destinations confirmed for Amazon?s European network tests | Air Cargo World

Amazon boxesAfter it was revealed last week that Amazon has expanded testing of its own logistics network in three cities in Europe, more details have been uncovered by Air Cargo World’s sister publication Cargo Facts about the specific locations and route information, and how it fits with Amazon’s existing distribution network on the continent.

Amazon has been working with Germany-based forwarder and logistics services provider DB Schenker, using a wet-leased 737 freighter, operated by charter carrier ASL France, to connect cities in Poland, Germany, and the U.K., with plans to expand the trial to include more freighters, as well as more destinations in Italy and Spain.

Cargo Facts has found that the 737-300F is being operated by ASL on a Monday-Saturday, 6x weekly schedule between Wroclaw, Poland (WRO); Doncaster, U.K. (DSA); and Kassel, Germany (KSF). All three of these cities are located near Amazon’s fulfillment centers: WRO is 12 minutes from two Wroclaw fulfillment centers, DSA is 18 minutes from two Doncaster centers, and KSF is a little over an hour away from Amazon’s two centers in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

According to Amazon, the second Doncaster fulfillment center opened – rather conveniently – in October 2015, bring the total capacity for that location to 660,000 square feet. The two centers in Bad Hersfeld are considered some of the most important Amazon hubs in Germany, accounting for 1.7 million square feet, the company said. In Wroclaw, the 2.2 million-square-foot facilities are as large as some of the fulfillment centers found in the U.S.

Regarding possible future expansion, the largest Amazon fulfillment center in Spain is located in Madrid, nearly adjacent to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD). The center is slated to be expanded to 807,000 square feet in the first quarter of the coming year. Could this be just a coincidence? Maybe not.

Parma, Italy, is another possible contender. Amazon currently has only one 650,000-square-foot fulfillment center at Piacenza, Italy, near Milan, which is only about an hour’s drive from the relatively uncongested Parma International Airport (PMF). Interestingly, PMF also happens to be partly owned by a Chinese logistics/e-commerce company.

As Cargo Facts reported earlier this month, Amazon has also been conducting trial air operations in the United States and is believed to have begun the process of setting up an own-controlled US domestic air network based on a fleet of twenty 767 freighters. Whether it will make a similar move in Europe remains to be seen.

 

As I recall the Voodoo was on display for the longest time in a park downtown ILN when the politically correct crowd decided they didn't want a war machine on display in their village.
So the Airborne Express maintenance guys, god bless em, said fine we'll take it and put on a proper display at our private Air Park. Glad to see it still there

 

They will find the aircraft and pilots very quickly. First, I would expect a lot of the Dynamic people will go or its sister carrier, Air 21.

You do know that Boeing is actually still building the 767 and would bet Amazon would get a good deal. I do believe that someone will get the "contract". My guess is Atlas/ABX/Amerijet or maybe even a place like Air 21.

Sorry ATPLCliff but I think you're wrong.

 

Will they have their own airline or is this going to be a code share?

Why don't they just buy out who ever has 767Fs here? They'd have the planes and pilots instantly.