Amazon builds airfield dedicated to its own cargo planes

On August 11, 2021 (local time), Amazon announced that it had opened the Amazon Air Hub, an airfield dedicated to its cargo planes. Amazon Air Hub, which was opened at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, will serve as an airlift base for Amazon Air freighters operating from 40 locations in the United States.

Amazon launched its own aviation division, Amazon Air, in 2016 and has partnered with several airlines to operate its cargo planes, but so far it has been using 40 general airports located throughout the United States. In the midst of this, Amazon announced in 2017 that it would spend $1.5 billion to build Amazon’s first air freight hub on the border between Cincinnati, Ohio and Kentucky.

This completed the Amazon, the air hub for 70,000 4,000m ² building robots sorting center and 7, karate based role with a lamp, three-dimensional garage for parking. The number of employees working at Amazon Air Hub is 2,000, and the number of flights is 12 per day. It can accommodate up to 100 planes and is designed to take off and land 200 cargo planes a day, so there is a possibility that the number will be increased in the future.

Sarah Rose, vice president of Amazon Air, said she was delighted to be able to hire thousands of people at a next-generation, state-of-the-art facility that will continue Amazon’s air cargo network for many years to come.

Amazon Air currently operates 75 freighters and purchased 11 used Boeing 767-300s in early 2021 for its private jets. By the end of 2022, the number of Amazon Air-operated aircraft that expands, leases and owns this air cargo network is expected to reach 85. Related information can be found here.