THE BIRTH OF AMAZON AIR In 2015, Amazon Air was launched, and was initially named Amazon Prime Air (this venture was renamed Amazon Air, and the new drone-based delivery service kept the name of Amazon Prime Air). This is the cargo airline brand name for Amazon’s captive freight delivery service based in Hebron, KY near Cincinnati, OH. Amazon operates this delivery service using its own branded aircraft operated by Air Transport International, ABX Air, Atlas Air, and Southern Air, with the primary hub being the Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). As a cool side note, the original code name used was Project Aerosmith (no word on why Led Zeppelin was not used, which I believe is a vastly superior band). In a nutshell, Amazon purchased ~20% of Air Transport
International’s stock and began scheduled operations with 20 Boeing 767 aircraft in March 2016. The next year, Amazon purchased a 920-acre facility at CVG and started work on a three-million-square-foot sorting facility with parking space for more than 100 cargo aircraft. Recently, Amazon announced that it was expanding this facility to be a $1.5B air cargo hub, on top of other hubs it was building out across the country. It has steadily added more aircraft as point-to-point
transit routes across the USA were added, and more leased aircraft will be added in the coming years. One such addition is the recent acquisition of a minority
stake (9.9%) in Canadian freight cargo carrier Cargojet in the late summer of 2019. Amazon was already using Cargojet’s aircraft services for mid-mile delivery from Amazon warehouses to its distribution centers. Still, this expanded arrangement will increase the use of Cargojet’s network further in the regions it serves. Another announced venture in late 2019 is with Sun
Country Airlines, a low-cost leisure carrier. Due to the pandemic-induced travel slowdown, Sun Country will begin flying a fleet of 10 converted Boeing 737- 800 freighters earlier than initially planned for Amazon. These flights will begin by the end of July, earlier than the previous target for summer’s end, according to an announcement by CEO Jude Bricker. With passenger traffic down by 95% from pre-COVID-19 projections, the timing of this venture with Amazon could not have come at a better time. The first cargo flight is planned for May 7.
THE DRONE-BASED DELIVERY FORCE
TAKES TO THE SKIES (KINDA) The concept for this idea was announced in late 2013 and was formalized in 2016. It is still in development, with trials being performed outside of the USA. Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, laid out plans in December
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