Amazon’s A330 freighter fleet could more than double over next five years

Now that its first owned A330-300 freighter has started service, Amazon could double the fleet of the freighter type. The A330-300 may replace the 767 as the backbone of the Amazon Air network over the next decade, with the e-tailer adding as many as twelve units to its fleet over the next five years, Derek Lossing, former senior manager at Amazon Logistics and founder of Cirrus Global Advisors, told Cargo Facts . [caption id="attachment_56866546" align="alignnone" width="1719"] Amazon's fleet now includes eleven A330 freighters. (Courtesy/EFW)[/caption] Amazon did not respond to requests for comment by publication time. Amazon’s first owned A330-300P2F (1359) entered revenue service with CMI provider Alaska Airlines at the beginning of November, joining ten leased units of 2009- to 2018-vintage (1071, 1081, 1167, 1205, 1226, 1245, 1863, 1865, 1874 and 1902), which began flying from October 2023 through June 2025 . All ten are on lease from IAT Leasing and Blue Owl Capital and also operate in CMI service with Alaska Airlines. Amazon purchased the 2012-vintage unit 1359 (ex-Corsair) last year from Stratos. It completed conversion in Shanghai (SHA) this year and made its first post-conversion flight in May. The aircraft arrived in Cincinnati (CVG) from Honolulu (HNL) and Clark, Philippines (CRK), on Sept. 28. The e-tailer purchased its second A330-300 earlier this year, sending the 2014-vintage unit 1546 to STARCO’s SHA conversion facility in August . Fleet replacement Not all the freighters in Amazon’s fleet are as young as the A330s. Roughly half of Amazon’s 767 freighters are over thirty years old, with one, the 1989-vintage unit 24632, being over thirty-seven years old, Cirrus’s Lossing said. Those aircraft have only a limited number of peak seasons left, he added. Amazon’s widebody fleet includes three owned production 767-300Fs and fifty-nine converted 767-300 freighters, forty-seven of which are leased and twelve of which it owns . Meanwhile, Amazon’s twenty-eight leased 737-800BCFs are operated on its behalf by Sun Country Airlines and ASL Airlines Ireland. Amazon will continue to inject 767s into its freighter fleet when the type is available, but the pipeline of 767 candidates will not be as robust as the pipeline of A330 conversion candidates in the years to come, Lossing said. Two freighters, one A330-300P2F (1146) and one freshly converted 767-300BDSF (29898) whose new Amazon registration was reserved with the FAA on Nov. 2, will soon join Amazon’s fleet on lease from CAM. “This continues to assume that Amazon is committed to its domestic air capacity long term, which it — at this point — continues to demonstrate that it is with the introduction of younger and younger airplanes,” he added. A spokesperson for Alaska Airlines declined to comment on whether any additional Amazon A330-300 freighters would enter CMI service before yearend. Cargo Facts LATAM 2027, the essential event for stakeholders in Latin America, will take place Feb. 10-12 at the Marquis Reforma in Mexico City. Learn more and register by Jan. 8 to take advantage of early-bird pricing.

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