Amazon Intermodal

[rrnut282]

Shadow the Cats owner

....  Amazon is also thinking about starting their own air freight division to get away from Fed Ex and UPS.  That will go over like a box of rocks in that industry.  

 

They already have bought a fleet of planes (used 767s a small wide-body) and had them converted from passenger to freighter.  

[daveklepper]

How many?   Where based?   Who maintains?

[rrnut282]

They have 20 and are looking to add another 20 over several years.  They appear to be dry leased from a couple of different companies that have convoluted ownerships.  There is one currently in TLV undergoing conversion. 

I borrowed this fleet summation from Airlliners.net.  If you want to read more detail head to http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1385587

I started a bit of an outline to clear it up for me and I'm putting what I came up with here for others:

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings

• Titan - Leasing subsidiary of Atlas
  
  • 20 - 767-300, leased for by Amazon 10 years. All purchased as passenger airliners.
    
    • Conversion Location:
      • 12 converted IAI/Bedek in TLV
      • 6 converted into BCF at QPF 
      • 2 converted into BCF at TPE
    • Delivery Status:
      • 12 are converted and consistently flown for Amazon by Atlas.
      • 1 is converted, but not yet consitently flown for Amazon by Atlas.
      • 7 are in the process of being converted and will be flown for Amazon by Atlas.
  • Andromeda and other single purpose entities, hold titles to the aircraft leased by Amazon through Titan.
• Atlas Air
  
  • Pilots represented by Teamsters 1224
  • 12 - 767-300 are currently being flown for Amazon.

Air Transport Services Group (ATSG)

• Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) - Leasing arm of ATSG
  
  • 12 - 767-200, leased by Amazon for 5 years.
    • Already freighters when leased by Amazon.
  • 8 - 767-300, leased by Amazon for 7 years.
    • Purchased as passenger airplanes, converted IAI/Bedek in TLV.
  • Aircraft are titled to CAM
• ABX Air
  
  • Pilots represented by Teamsters 1224
  • Flies 6 - 767-200
• Air Transport International (ATI)
  
  • Pilots represented by ALPA
  • Flies 8 - 767-300
  • Flies 6 - 767-200

Now to get back to trains before the forum police come here, I havn't seen an Amazon trailer go by my house on an NS intermodal train,.  

[Bruce Kelly]

Saw four or five of the blue ones on BNSF's Z-SSECHC (South Seattle-Chicago) at Naples, Idaho, on 3/11.

[csxns]

rrnut282

I havn't seen an Amazon trailer go by my house on an NS intermodal train,.

Have seen several JB Hunt intermodals from the NS go to the Amazon warehouse in Charlotte NC.

[NittanyLion]

I haven't seen one going through DC on CSX, but boy are they all over 70, 270, the Beltway, and 95.

[rrnut282]

I should have said, "yet."  This time of the year, all but 2 of the intermodal trains go by in darkness.  

csxns

 

 

rrnut282

I havn't seen an Amazon trailer go by my house on an NS intermodal train,.

 

 

Have seen several JB Hunt intermodals from the NS go to the Amazon warehouse in Charlotte NC.