Amazon NOT starting it's own airline.

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02-17-2016, 10:04 AM

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727574drvr

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Just been quietly reading, we've even had some business reporters on here trolling as pilots looking for inside info, which I have not given. Trust me, these guys at Amazon are for real; never tell them what they cannot do. They will bet the farm to prove everyone wrong. They have made some mistakes occasionally over the years, but remember, this is a company less than 20 years old. Incidentally, their Fulfillment Center in CAE is twice the size of the UPS hub in CAE, and bigger than the FedEx hub in IND. FWIW... Happy Motoring and Cheers.

02-17-2016, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by atpcliff

According to a bunch of other posters, Amazon has hired a lot of logistics people away from UPS.

So Amazon decided to hire people that were a part of ups's biggest logistical failure in the past 3 years to lead Amazon logistics. ...Now that's some funny s...t you don't see everyday; )

02-18-2016, 07:56 PM

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Cargo Airline Expanded Flights Believed to be For Amazon - WSJ

02-19-2016, 03:56 AM

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The F Sort at ILN is nothing but a shell and as the article leads one to think its a turn key operation, sorting wise it is not. DHL sold all the belts and sorting equipment to UPS.

02-19-2016, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by 727574drvr

Incidentally, their Fulfillment Center in CAE is twice the size of the UPS hub in CAE, and bigger than the FedEx hub in IND. FWIW... Happy Motoring and Cheers.

Not hard to be bigger than the UPS "hub" in CAE since there isn't one.

02-22-2016, 02:56 AM

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Amazon IS starting its own airline. It will surpass UPS and FedEx within 5yrs.

Is this the statement you are looking for?

02-23-2016, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Swedish Blender

Not hard to be bigger than the UPS "hub" in CAE since there isn't one.

There used to be one there, however, it is still quite a good size sort facility, and for some reason they fly a tremendous amount of flights in and out of CAE. I don't know Blender, you tell me. Just curious.

02-23-2016, 12:04 PM

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CAE was a regional sort in the old days...before as much volume as possible was brought into Louisville Inditucky Standiford Galactic International World Port.

The facility is still there, but it only gets something like 5 flights a day. DSM, DEN, PHX, MCO and a handful of other non-sort cities see as many or more planes as Columbia does.