{"id":279185,"date":"2019-06-20T06:50:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279185"},"modified":"2019-06-20T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:50:33","slug":"amazon-adds-15-aircrafts-to-fleet-aims-to-increase-it-up-to-70-by-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amazon-adds-15-aircrafts-to-fleet-aims-to-increase-it-up-to-70-by-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon adds 15 aircrafts to fleet, aims to increase it up to 70 by 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco: Just after losing air-shipping contract of global courier company FedEx amid competition, e-commerce major Amazon has added 15 cargo aircraft to its fleet in the making, aiming to reach 70 planes by 2021.<br \/>\n&#8220;At the International Paris Air Show, the company announced a partnership with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to lease an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft. These aircraft will be in addition to the five Boeing 737-800&#8217;s leased from GECAS,&#8221; the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe aircraft would fly in the US out of over 20 air gateways in the Amazon Air network. &#8220;These aircraft create additional capacity for Amazon Air, building on the investment in Prime Free One-Day programme,&#8221; said Dave Clark, Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Operations at Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco: Just after losing air-shipping contract of global courier company FedEx amid competition, e-commerce major Amazon has added 15 cargo aircraft to its fleet in the making, aiming to reach 70 planes by 2021. &#8220;At the International Paris Air Show, the company announced a partnership with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to lease an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft. These aircraft will be in addition to the five Boeing 737-800&#8217;s leased from GECAS,&#8221; the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. The aircraft would fly in the US out of over 20 air gateways in the Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}