Amazon Air

Not to be confused with the drone delivery service Amazon Prime Air.

Amazon Air (Prime Air)
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Hubs
Focus cities
Fleet size95
Parent companyAmazon
Key peopleRaoul Sreenivasan
Websiteamazon.com/airplanes
An Amazon Air Boeing 737-800(BCF) operated by Sun Country Airlines.

Amazon Air (often branded as Prime Air) is a virtual cargo airline operating exclusively to transport Amazon packages. In 2017, it changed its name from Amazon Prime Air to Amazon Air to differentiate themselves from their Amazon Prime Air autonomous drone delivery service. However, the Prime Air logo remains on the aircraft.[4] Until January 2021, the airline had relied on wet-leasing its aircraft from other operators, but going forward it is looking to directly own some aircraft.[5] On the planes the airline owns, the airline will still rely on others for CMI (crew, maintenance, and insurance) leases.[6]

  1. ^ Whitehead, Brian (January 23, 2023). "Amazon Air takes off in India". About Amazon.
  2. ^ Etherington, Darrell (November 5, 2020). "Amazon launches its first Amazon Air regional hub in Europe". TechCrunch.
  3. ^ Whitehead, Brian (April 29, 2021). "Amazon begins operations at San Bernardino airport hub". The San Bernardino Sun.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2018_logo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Amazon buys its first planes to expand air network". BBC News. January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  6. ^ Kulisch, Eric (March 25, 2021). "Amazon airline ATSG touts red-hot business for cargo jet leases". FreightWaves. Retrieved June 9, 2021.