{"id":393644,"date":"2021-01-06T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393644"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T05:36:58","slug":"amazon-buys-11-jets-for-1st-time-to-ship-orders-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amazon-buys-11-jets-for-1st-time-to-ship-orders-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys 11 jets for 1st time to ship orders faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Tuesday that it bought 11 jets from Delta and WestJet airlines to boost its growing delivery network and get orders to shoppers faster.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it\u2019s the first time it has purchased planes for its delivery network. Over the past couple of years, Amazon has been leasing planes to build its fleet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a mix of both leased and owned aircraft in our growing fleet allows us to better manage our operations,\u201d said Sarah Rhoads, vice president of Amazon Global Air, in a blog post. <\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based Amazon has been working to deliver most of its packages itself and rely less on UPS, the U.S. Postal Service and other carriers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Tuesday that it bought 11 jets from Delta and WestJet airlines to boost its growing delivery network and get orders to shoppers faster. The company said it\u2019s the first time it has purchased planes for its delivery network. Over the past couple of years, Amazon has been leasing planes to build its fleet. \u201cHaving a mix of both leased and owned aircraft in our growing fleet allows us to better manage our operations,\u201d said Sarah Rhoads, vice president of Amazon Global Air, in a blog post. Seattle-based Amazon has been working to deliver most of its packages itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393644","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}