Amazon expands its airborne transport fleet to 50 planes

Amazon's well-known drones have but to ship a lot of something, however its jets are a special story. After launching Prime Air in 2016 with 40 jets, the corporate seems to have renamed it "Amazon Air" and added 10 extra Boeing 767-300 cargo plane. It now flies Amazon Air out of 20 totally different gateway airports "making two-day transport potential virtually wherever within the US," the corporate stated.

Amazon just lately unveiled a gateway operation in Wilmington, Ohio that can open in 2019, and now says it would launch a regional air hub at Fort Value Alliance airport and an Air Hub on the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Worldwide airport, each of which is able to open in 2021. The underside line for customers is that Amazon is taking extra management of its US transport operations, which ought to pace up shipments and cut back costs. Whether or not drones will ever match into this operation -- aside from as a advertising device -- stays to be seen.