News / Amazon Air expands its fleet and network, with widebodies on the horizon

ATR 72s to join Amazon Air fleet. © blurf Dreamstime.com

Amazon’s freighter operations keep expanding at a double-digit rate, heralding some strategic shifts.

A new study, published by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, has kept track of the progress of Amazon Air and shows turboprops entering the game, with widebodies for intercontinental operations on the horizon.

Between last August and this month, Amazon Air increased its lift by 14%, its fleet growing from 73 aircraft to 88, with 54 B767 freighters continuing to dominate the line-up and B737s ...