Amazon Airline

[reno]

yesterday was driving past tampa Airport . I was shocked to see Amazon now has there own Airplanes ! nice new looking jet aircraft . there shipping there own freight by jet .

[FlyingPenguin]

https://www.recode.net/2017/1/31/144622 ... -prime-air

[reno]

wonder when the government will start looking into amazon .there getting into all the logic of shipping and taking out the middle men .im sure those in the logic movement of goods are sweating Amazon . like the post office ,ups and fedx . a friend who works for the post office said Amazon has already informed them. that there going to reduce there reliance on them after the new year. 2019 could be a very interesting year for the logic industry .

[wvjohn]

vertical integration is more profitable, if you can pull it off. I still buy a lot of stuff from them even though they treat warehouse workers poorly, for the simple reason that it is very hard in hillbilly land to find stuff locally, as in a pair of pants my size. The nearest B&M stores are at least a 90 mile rountrip and I quit doing that because the stock was terrible.

If Sears had forward looking management they could have been a player.

[Pugsley]

There has been some grumbling in the rail industry as well. If you look at the centers in and around Chicago they are all with in one mile of major lines. One of them is right down the street from a large inter model facility. I wonder if they plan to get into container ships and get stuff DIRECT from the source.

[reno]

Beyond planes, the company has bought thousands of its own truck trailers and is also starting to act as an ocean freight shipping operator to move goods between China and the U.S.

https://www.recode.net/2017/1/31/144622 ... -prime-air

[Losbot]

Amazon Air has been around for a little bit now. I believe they're going to be the 3rd largest cargo fleet. I saw an article that they've got like a dozen more planes on order over the next 2 years. They're filling in the gaps where they just can't get what they need, from FedEx, UPS or USPS. I see their vans every week, driving around town.