News / Amazon doubles up on delivery speed, but is not looking for air support

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Amazon has unveiled plans to double its same-day delivery facilities over the coming years, but the air transport sector will not play a significant role.

The e-commerce behemoth has been in the vanguard of the push to next-day deliveries, standard for Prime subscribers pre-pandemic and signalled ambitions to accelerate to same-day, but lockdowns and subsequent surge in volume forced it to step on the brakes.

Now its foot is on the accelerator again.

In the past quarter, Amazon delivered more than half of all ...