{"id":836,"date":"2016-03-10T02:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T08:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2016-03-10T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T12:15:16","slug":"amazon-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Airlines coming? Web retailer to lease 20 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0from Air Transport Services. This agreement will help the e-commerce company to\u00a0build out its delivery network capacity. The agreement comes at a time when\u00a0Amazon has been busy investing heavily in its shipping network infrastructure. The investments include a new fleet of trucks and new\u00a0sorting centers popping up\u00a0across the country. The talks have\u00a0reportedly been going on\u00a0since the\u00a0summer of 2015. Amazon claims the agreement\u00a0is not aimed at\u00a0competing with delivery companies like FedEx and UPS, but to enhance their ability to deliver customer packages faster. It does seem that the agreement with\u00a0Air Transport Services Group will provide\u00a0Amazon with\u00a0increased leverage when negotiating new contracts with those carriers going forward.<\/p>\n

Amazon Airlines fleet plans<\/h2>\n

The initial agreement calls for Amazon to lease 20 Boeing air freighters. The lease\u00a0terms call for Air Transport Services to operate the aircraft for a period of five years. The terms also will allow\u00a0Amazon to acquire\u00a0up to 20%\u00a0of the company’s shares over the same five\u00a0year period. Will we\u00a0see an actual Amazon Airlines taking to the skies anytime soon?\u00a0Amazon Prime currently allows customers\u00a0free 2\u00a0day shipping on its merchandise for a $99 annual membership fee, perhaps you could enroll in a future Amazon Prime Passenger service?\u00a0This 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\u00a0aircraft.<\/p>\n

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Amazon starts own air cargo and trucking services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0from Air Transport Services. This agreement will help the e-commerce company to\u00a0build out its delivery network capacity. The agreement comes at a time when\u00a0Amazon has been busy investing heavily in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[63,202,200,201,41,203],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-63","tag-air-transport-services","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-com","tag-boeing","tag-freighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}