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Amazon’s cargo airline’s slow growth is showing how the eCommerce company is adjusting to the sluggish demand, Bloomberg wrote Tuesday (Sept. 20). The Amazon Air freighters had on average 194 flights a day during a week in September, which was a 3.8% boost from March...

Amazon Air recently broadened its network into Kansas with a regional gateway facility at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport that will offer express delivery to Prime customers across the region, according to a FreightWaves report Friday (Jan. 21). The private airline debuted its daily cargo service...

Amazon has taken a minority stake in Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the air freight partner working with most of its aviation logistics unit, according to CNBC.  The eCommerce giant exercised warrants in ATSG that will let it acquire around 13.5 million shares in the cargo airline at around $9.73...

Amazon Air, Amazon’s cargo airline arm, is set for more expansions in the spring and to double in size by June, according to a study by DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development. The airline currently has 10 planes registered for it that aren’t presently...