News / Amazon Air takes its foot off the expansion accelerator as market slows

Amazon has cut its operations at Cologne-Bonn significantly © Tobias Arhelger

In another signal that e-commerce is hitting the buffers, the growth of Amazon Air’s fleet and network has slowed significantly over the past six months.

The e-commerce behemoth has already taken steps to shrink its warehouse footprint to match a slower-than-anticipated market.

After a disastrous summer, FedEx is reducing flight frequencies and temporarily parking aircraft, but Amazon Air has not scaled back its flight operations, although momentum has clearly slowed.

According to the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, which has ...