Despite the pandemic, Amazon is one of the companies that have still made a massive profit while other companies reportedly go bankrupt. Now, Amazon is planning to grow even bigger with the acquisition of jets that would reportedly allow the company to improve their delivery network.
Amazon buys 11 jets from Delta and WestJet airlines
According to the report by ClickonDetroit, Amazon recently stated on Tuesday that it had actually purchased 11 jets coming from Delta and WestJet airlines in order to boost the total growing delivery network. This would also allow Amazon to get the orders to shoppers much faster through the use of its very own jets.
The company has stated that this will bre the very first time that they have ever purchased planes specifically for its own delivery network. Over the last few years, Amazon has actually been leasing several planes in order to build its very own fleet.
Amazon plans to rely on itself more
According to an official Amazon blog post, the vice president of Amazon Global Air, Sarah Rhoads, stated that having a mix of both owned and leased aircrafts within their growing fleet will better allow them to handle and manage the ongoing operations. The growing fleet could definitely be beneficial for Amazon allowing them to cut time and introduce more flights in their system.
The Seattle-based Amazon has actually been working in order to deliver most of tis own packages by itself and rely less and less on UPS, the United States Postal Service and even a number of other carriers. Besides its general fleet of planes, Amazon has also actually built a number of other package-sorting hubs located at the airports, opened warehouses closer to where the shoppers are living, and evenb launched a specific program that allows contractors to start their very own businesses delivering the packages through vans that are stamped with the official Amazon logo.
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Amazon plans to have 85 planes by 2022
Amazon has stated that it will be acquiring 11 planes and all of them are the Boeing 767-300 and will be converted from the standard passenger plane into a cargo plane instead. Amazon expects the four jets that it had just purchased from WestJet to already join Amazon's fleet before this year ends. However, the seven planes that Amazon has purchased from Delta will still be made ready by 2022.
This particular purchase by Amazon will bring the total company fleet up to a whopping 85 planes by the year 2022. This could also be easier for them to do as a number of airline companies that are deeply affected by the ongoing pandemic could have no choice but to sell the planes for a cheaper price. However, this could also not be the case as Amazon has still declined to give any comment with regards to just how much the company had purchased the 11 Boeing 767-300s.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
