Bloomberg reports that Amazon is starting its own air cargo operations in Europe. Amazon Air will run an air hub based from Leipzig/Halle airport in Germany and employ 200 workers at the hub. Operating “its own aircraft will let the world’s largest e-commerce company offer ‘more flexible delivery options,’ Amazon said.
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Amazon Delivers Emergency Supplies to Typhoon-Devastated Western Alaska
Flying Magazine reports, “You can get pretty much anything from Amazon, and the residents of the villages in western Alaska devastated by the recent typhoon pretty much need everything. So it makes sense that the Amazon Disaster Relief recently coordinated its first disaster response flight to the Last Frontier, bringing thousands of pounds of emergency supplies via Amazon Air to the Red Cross in Anchorage. The first shipment arrived on Sunday, October 19.”
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