New York, United States.
Amazon announced Tuesday that it bought 11 Boeing 767-300 aircraft on airlines Delta and WestJet in order to strengthen its air fleet in the face of increasing orders via the internet.
In a statement, the e-commerce giant explained that the four devices purchased at WestJet they are currently being transformed from a passenger configuration to a cargo configuration and will be added to the Amazon operations this year.
The seven Delta planes, meanwhile, will be incorporated in 2022 and will ensure that Amazon it has additional transportation capacity for years, according to the company run by Jeff Bezos.
“Our goal is to continue to serve customers in the United States the way they expect from Amazon and buying our own aircraft is a natural step toward that goal,” Sarah Rhoads, Amazon’s vice president, noted in the note. Global Air.
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According to Rhoads, combine own and leased aircraft allows Amazon to better manage its operations and meeting customer expectations, orders have skyrocketed during the pandemic.
Amazon has indicated that it will continue to use other companies to operate flights on these new aircraft, the price has not been announced.
The sales of the Seattle-based company (USA) have multiplied since the outbreak of the covid-19 crisis and, during the first nine months of the year, they amounted to $ 260,509,000, 35% more than the 193,086,000 it recorded in the same period in 2019.
Thanks to this, the net benefit of Amazon it shot up 69% until September, to $ 14,109,000.