New York, United States.
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it has bought 11 Boeing 767-300 aircraft to the airlines Delta and WestJet to strengthen its air fleet in the face of the increase in internet orders.
In a statement, the e-commerce giant explained that the four devices came from WestJet are currently being transformed from a passenger to a cargo configuration and will be added to the Amazon operations this year.
The seven Delta aircraft, meanwhile, will be completed in 2022 and will make Amazon According to the company led by Jeff Bezos, it has had additional transport capacity for years.
“Our goal is to continue to serve customers in the United States in the way they expect from Amazon. Buying our own planes is a natural step toward that goal,” said Sarah Rhoads, vice president of Amazon Global Air.
Operations
According to Rhoads, combining owned and leased aircraft allows Amazon to better manage its operations and meeting the expectations of customers whose orders have exploded during the pandemic.
Amazon said it will continue to use other companies to operate the flights of these new planes, the price of which has not been announced.
Sales of the Seattle-based company have multiplied since the outbreak of the covid-19 crisis and during the first nine months of the year, they were $ 260.509 million, 35% more than the 193.086 million recorded in the same period of 2019.
As a result, the net profit of Amazon it shot up 69% to September, to $ 14.109 million.