Amazon to boost 767-300F fleet leased from ATSG

[caption id="attachment_16267" align="alignright" width="392"] An Amazon Air 767-300BDSF at Sea-Tac Airport (SEA).[/caption] Amazon will lease twelve additional freighter-converted 767-300Fs from ATSG’s leasing affiliate, Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), the e-tailer announced today. The 767 will remain as the backbone of the Amazon Air fleet as CAM is set to grow the number of 767Fs CAM leases to Amazon to forty-two units by the end of next year. By Amazon’s current calculation, the fleet operated on its behalf will surpass eighty aircraft next year. Amazon has already taken delivery of the first aircraft linked to the twelve-unit agreement announced today, and the remaining eleven units are expected next year. CAM is also committed to placing an additional three freighter-converted 767-300Fs with Amazon between the second quarter and final quarter of 2020 as part of a deal to lease ten of the aircraft type firmed up in December 2018. Most of the 767 freighters will be converted from aircraft retired from the American Airlines fleet, with ATSG having secured rights to acquire a total of twenty ex-American 767-300ERs in December 2018. There are currently four ex-American 767-300ERs (26996, 25450, 29431 and 29429) undergoing conversion by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in Tel Aviv (TLV), the latest one arriving at the end of May . ATSG first inked a long-term deal with Amazon in March 2016 for the lease and operation of twelve 767-200Fs and eight 767-300Fs. Apart from the three multi-aircraft lease deals with Amazon, ATSG-affiliate carriers also operate two freighter-converted 767-300Fs (30109 and 28495) on a CMI basis for Amazon, without a dry lease from CAM. Apart from the aircraft leased and operated by ATSG-affiliate companies, Amazon also leases aircraft from Titan Aviation Holdings and GECAS for operation by Atlas Air, Southern Air and Sun Country Airlines. As of September 2019, Titan dry leased nineteen 767-300 freighters to Amazon, with seventeen operating on a CMI basis. Additionally, Atlas-affiliate Southern Air operates five 737-800BCFs on a CMI basis for Amazon as part of a March 2019 agreement. Amazon also has options to place up to fifteen additional 737-800BCFs with Southern by May 31, 2021. New to the mix is Minneapolis-based low-cost carrier Sun Country Air, which Amazon hired last year to operate ten 737-800BCFs on a CMI-basis for a period of six years. The first three units have already entered service. In parallel with the fleet expansion, Amazon is planning hubs at Lakeland Airport (LAL) later this summer, and at San Bernardino Airport (SBD) next year. The operation’s main hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky (CVG) is expected to be operational next year.

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