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JetBlue Sues Walmart for Trademark Infringement

June 24, 2019 /
JetBlue sues Walmart for trademark infringement over Jetblack service
FILE PHOTO: Walmart’s logo is seen outside one of the stores in Chicago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – JetBlue Airways Corp has sued Walmart Inc for trademark infringement, after the world’s largest retailer began using the name Jetblack for its text-based personal shopping service.

In a complaint filed on Friday night in Manhattan federal court, JetBlue called Jetblack a “transparent attempt” by Walmart to capitalize on the goodwill associated with the carrier’s trademarks.

JetBlue also said Jetblack was likely to cause “significant consumer confusion” as Walmart expands the service, and warned that Walmart intends further infringements by using additional “Jet+color” names such as Jetgold and Jetsilver.

Walmart did not immediately respond on Monday to requests for comment. The lawsuit also names Walmart’s Jet.com unit as a defendant.

Introduced in May 2018, Jetblack calls itself a “personal shopping and concierge service that combines the convenience of e-commerce with the customized attention of a personal assistant.”

Walmart launched Jetblack in part to help the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer expand beyond its brick-and-mortar base and compete with such services as Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Prime, especially among consumers in urban areas.

JetBlue is based in Long Island City, New York.

The case is JetBlue Airways Corp v Jet.com Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 19-05879.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Susan Thomas)

JetBlue sues Walmart for trademark infringement over Jetblack service
FILE PHOTO: A JetBlue aircraft comes in to land at Long Beach Airport in Long Beach

Amazon to Close All U.S. Pop-Up Stores

March 6, 2019 /

March 6 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc will close all of its U.S. pop-up stores and focus instead on opening more book stores, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday.

The company’s shares closed down 1.4 percent at $1,668.95.

Amazon’s all 87 pop-up stores in the United States are expected to close by the end of April, the Wall Street Journal reported https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-shut-all-u-s-pop-up-stores-as-it-rethinks-physical-retail-strategy-11551902178 earlier on Wednesday, citing some of the employees at the stores.

The news underscores how the online retailer is still working out its brick-and-mortar strategy.

Pop-up stores for years helped Amazon showcase novel products like its voice-controlled Echo speakers, but the company is now able to market those products and more at its larger chain of Whole Foods stores, acquired in 2017, and cashierless Amazon Go stores, which opened to the public last year.

The online retail giant will also open more “4-star stores” – stores that sell items rated 4-stars or higher by Amazon customers, the spokesperson added.

“After much review, we came to the decision to discontinue our pop-up kiosk program, and are instead expanding Amazon Books and Amazon 4-star, where we provide a more comprehensive customer experience and broader selection.”

Shares of bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc closed down 8.9 percent at $5.84.

(Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

Two Bodies Recovered After Amazon Cargo Plane Crash

February 25, 2019 /

(Reuters) – Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane that nosedived into a bay outside Houston on Saturday, and a search was ongoing for a third victim, authorities said.

All three people aboard the Boeing 767 cargo jetliner operated by Atlas Air Worldwide died in the crash as it approached Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Atlas and Boeing Co said in statements on Sunday.

Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told a news conference on Sunday that two bodies had been recovered and the search continued for the third person as well as the plane’s black boxes.

The sheriff’s office released a video showing fragments of the aircraft and cargo littering mudflats after the tide went out in the bay, exposing more of the crash site.

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the agency obtained about five seconds of security video from a local jail that showed the crash.

“The aircraft is in the video as it’s descending in a steep descent, a steep nose down attitude,” Sumwault told the press briefing, adding that there was no distress call.

Asked by a reporter if the incident was “anything more than a plane crash,” Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Perrye Turner said, “that’s what we have right now.”

The plane crashed at the north end of Trinity Bay near the small city of Anahuac, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of the airport around 12.40 p.m. (1340 EST) after taking off from Miami.

“This is a sad time for all of us,” Bill Flynn, Atlas Air’s chief executive officer, said in a statement. “Our team continues to work closely with the NTSB, the FAA and local authorities on the ground in Houston.”

Atlas Air Worldwide has been operating Boeing 767 freighters on behalf of Amazon following a 2016 deal.

Boeing said in a statement that it had sent a team to provide technical assistance to the NTSB as it conducted its investigation.

(Reporting by Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico; Editing by Daniel Wallis & Simon Cameron-Moore)

Cargo Jet with 3 on board crashes near Houston airport

February 23, 2019 /

NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) – A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner with three people on board crashed into a bay near Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Saturday, police and officials said.

Atlas Air Flight 3591 was en route to Houston from Miami when radar and radio contact with the plane was lost about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be in charge of the investigation, the statement said, and FAA investigators were on their way to the crash site.

The Chambers County Sheriff’s office said the plane had been located in Jack’s Pocket, at the north end of Trinity Bay near the small city of Anahuac, according to a Facebook post by the sheriff’s office.

Ed Gonzalez, the sheriff of neighboring Harris County, which includes Houston, said on Twitter his office was sending personnel to help with the rescue efforts.

Boeing said on Twitter it was aware of reports of an accident involving a 767 in Texas and was gathering more information.

Atlas Air said there were three people on board the aircraft. “Those people and their family members are our top priority at this time,” the airline said in a statement.

The company, a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide has been operating Boeing 767 freighters on behalf of Amazon following a 2016 deal.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the flight crew, their families and friends along with the entire team at Atlas Air during this terrible tragedy,” Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon, said in a statement.

(Reporting by Maria Caspani in New York Editing by Paul Simao)

Ariane 6 Rocket Seeks First Commercial Deals

February 21, 2019 /

BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) – Ariane 6, Europe’s next-generation space rocket, is expected to win its first two commercial launch orders in coming weeks, company officials said, a key milestone as the European launcher vies for orders against Elon Musk’s U.S. competitor SpaceX.

Operator Arianespace faces increased competition from SpaceX and Blue Origin, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Japan and India also pose a growing challenge.

Ariane 6 has three institutional orders in hand from the European Commission and France and is close to signing deals with two commercial customers, said Mathias Spude, spokesman for ArianeGroup, a joint venture of Airbus and Safran, that is the majority stakeholder in Arianespace.

ArianeGroup has invested 400 million euros (£347 million) of its own funds in the 3.4-billion-euro development of Ariane 6 – a project key to ensuring Europe’s independent access to space and a market valued at over $1 trillion by 2040.

Manufacturers say the rocket will be more versatile than Ariane 5, able to carry out missions from placing as many as 90 small satellites in low-earth orbit to taking classic spy satellites to far higher perches in geostationary orbit.

But the business case depends on drumming up enough commercial business to augment the 5-6 institutional launches expected in Europe annually in coming years, about a quarter of those planned in the United States.

European governments also face industry pressure to use Ariane 6 even if they could get cheaper rides using SpaceX.

“Europe continues to need its own access to space – the market of the future,” said Matthias Wachter with the BDI German Federation of Industry. “It doesn’t make sense to use European tax money to develop our own rocket but then launch satellites with competitors from the United States or Asia.”

Ariane 6, due for a first launch in 2020, was designed to save significant costs compared to Ariane 5, but industry experts say it will still cost around 70 million euros per launch – well above the rate offered by SpaceX, which uses reusable rocket technology and can count on larger U.S. orders.

Ariane 6’s designers insist innovative production techniques will favour the European launcher when the commercial market recovers from a recent slump.

“When it wakes up … we will be on the market with a rocket that is 40 percent cheaper, and will continue to reduce costs after that,” Spude told Reuters at the Ariane 6 production site.

Still, experts say SpaceX is widely credited with jolting the overall market with a keen focus on cutting costs, forcing Europe to shake up its launch industry.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal, Editing by Tim Hepher)

Canada’s Answer to Tesla Is a $15,500 Electric 3-Wheeler

February 13, 2019 /

(Bloomberg) — It’s all-electric like a Tesla. It’s priced like a Ford Fiesta. It’s one of the oddest-looking vehicles you’ve ever seen — and it may just redefine the commuter car.

As General Motors Co. prepares to shut the plant near Toronto that got car-making started in Canada more than a century ago, a new model is taking shape in a tiny production facility in Vancouver’s outskirts.

Meet the Solo — a one-seater vehicle made by Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corp. that costs $15,500. By December, 5,000 will be zipping around the streets of Los Angeles, with an additional 70,000 to be delivered over the next two years across the West Coast. Electra Meccanica may have a market value of just $80 million, yet it has $2.4 billion in pre-orders. The stock almost doubled in New York Wednesday.

Click the link for the full story! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-apos-latest-competitor-15-220000179.html

The company also has designs on the 4-wheel market…

Atlas Air Reports Strong Third-Quarter Earnings Growth

November 1, 2018 /

PURCHASE, N.Y., Nov. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (AAWW) today announced strong third-quarter earnings growth and raised its outlook for full-year 2018, driven by ongoing market strength, customer demand and business development.

“We continue to leverage the scale and scope of our enterprise and our leadership in global aviation outsourcing,” said President and Chief Executive Officer William J. Flynn.

Click the link below for the full story!

Atlas Air Reports Strong Third-Quarter

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Amazon Airlines coming? Web retailer to lease 20 jets

March 10, 2016 /

Amazon Airlines may be coming to the sky near you soon. The web based retailer has announced the completion an agreement to lease 20 Boeing aircraft from Air Transport Services. This agreement will help the e-commerce company to build out its delivery network capacity. The agreement comes at a time when Amazon has been busy investing heavily in its shipping network infrastructure. The investments include a new fleet of trucks and new sorting centers popping up across the country. The talks have reportedly been going on since the summer of 2015. Amazon claims the agreement is not aimed at competing with delivery companies like FedEx and UPS, but to enhance their ability to deliver customer packages faster. It does seem that the agreement with Air Transport Services Group will provide Amazon with increased leverage when negotiating new contracts with those carriers going forward.

Amazon Airlines fleet plans

The initial agreement calls for Amazon to lease 20 Boeing air freighters. The lease terms call for Air Transport Services to operate the aircraft for a period of five years. The terms also will allow Amazon to acquire up to 20% of the company’s shares over the same five year period. Will we see an actual Amazon Airlines taking to the skies anytime soon? Amazon Prime currently allows customers free 2 day shipping on its merchandise for a $99 annual membership fee, perhaps you could enroll in a future Amazon Prime Passenger service? This service might guaranty you transportation from point A to point B within a 2 day window. As Amazon continues to expand its branding and offerings, the sky does really seem to be endless for the web giant. Of course, if we were to see a large spike back up in oil prices, this could crimp consumer spending and increase the operating costs of the large Boeing cargo aircraft.

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Amazon starts own air cargo and trucking services

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