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Traderd

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Looks like Amazon wants to step up their air cargo ops.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business...argo-business/

Amazon.com is negotiating to lease 20 Boeing 767 jets for its own air delivery service, cargo industry executives have told The Seattle Times.

The online retail giant wants to build out its own cargo operations to avoid delays from carriers such as United Parcel Service, which have struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of e-commerce.

"Amazon is pretty fed up with the third-party carriers being a bottleneck to their growth," Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst Colin Sebastian said.

Leasing 20 jets would be a significant expansion of an Amazon trial operation out of Wilmington, Ohio, operated by ATSG on Amazon's behalf, sources said. A cargo industry source said Amazon expects to make a decision to go beyond the trial run and pull the trigger on a larger air cargo operation by the end of January.

He believes Amazon will eventually ship packages for other companies as well, putting it in direct competition with UPS, FedEx and others. Conceptually, other retailers could store goods in Amazon's warehouses, and then have Amazon manage the entire delivery operation. That would help Amazon keep the cargo planes loaded even after the holiday crush ends.
 
"As an interim step, (Amazon) will probably have to sign up with somebody who already has 767s and can start the operation," the leasing executive said. "Then they'll have to move, probably from 2017 onward, into acquiring airplanes themselves."

Reasonable to assume they'll find plenty of pilots for their own fleet of airplanes starting in 2017 ?
 
"As an interim step, (Amazon) will probably have to sign up with somebody who already has 767s and can start the operation," the leasing executive said. "Then they'll have to move, probably from 2017 onward, into acquiring airplanes themselves."

Reasonable to assume they'll find plenty of pilots for their own fleet of airplanes starting in 2017 ?

The idea of finding pilots entered my mind but it wasn't specifically mentioned in the article. Mostly they seem concerned about air frame availability and the certificates. Seems a bit ambitious but then again, Bezos is an ambitious guy.

Given the stories about the Amazon work environment, wonder how the wonder boy would handle the unions?
 
Pilots will come out of the woodwork. No sweat. :)
 
Yep, but he may have met his match on that count if/when he gets in the airplane biz. :D

I agree. And he might want to be careful about how deep he ventures into the world of unions. The dweebs in Downton Seattle might get a whiff.....
 
If the timeline is 2017 for getting their own airplanes, it won't be too long before they will show their hand. Hard to keep something like that a secret:

"Because Amazon doesn't have an Air Operator's Certificate, which it needs to fly airplanes commercially, it would have to turn to cargo-jet lessors to launch the business."

"'As an interim step, (Amazon) will probably have to sign up with somebody who already has 767s and can start the operation,' the leasing executive said. 'Then they'll have to move, probably from 2017 onward, into acquiring airplanes themselves.'"

http://www.seattletimes.com/busines...o-lease-20-jets-to-launch-air-cargo-business/
 
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own certificate in days

They could buy an existing certificate, oh lets say Florida West from the Atlas/Southern deal and keep right on going.
 

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