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East Coast Timing Association => ECTA General Chat => Topic started by: gkabbt on June 22, 2016, 05:43:49 PM

Title: Amazon in the News
Post by: gkabbt on June 22, 2016, 05:43:49 PM
Just saw this on Yahoo:

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/amazon-starting-own-shipping-business-163640417.html

It states that Amazon has leased 40 planes and Moody's says that could handle between 20% and 30% of its cargo volume.
Even if Amazon leases 100 planes for 100% of their cargo volume, Wilmington's active runway could handle that traffic on its own.
This is according to DHL flight numbers told to be by a former DHL aircraft maintenance mechanic when he worked at the Air Park.

Gregg

Edited to add:
Interesting comments at the end of the article.
Title: Re: Amazon in the News
Post by: RansomT on June 24, 2016, 01:36:00 PM
My local airport LEX has 1 runway and it runs 80 flights per day.