#6: Amazon Air confirms 767 delivery schedule for 2018
While attending a September media event in Seattle to raise awareness for cancer research, Associate Editor Nina Chamlou was able to confirm from normally tight-lipped Amazon officials the service-entry schedule for the remaining freighter-converted 767s that Amazon Air had contracted to operate via Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWW) and Air Transport Services Group (ATSG).
The resulting article gave Air Cargo World another spike in readership, as it revealed that Atlas Air would be putting three more aircraft into service for Amazon during the following week, bringing the number of aircraft in operation for Amazon to 38. The last two of the 40 committed aircraft (one of which is pictured above), the magazine learned, would be entering into service with Atlas before Thanksgiving.
A few months later, Air Cargo World learned through its Cargo Facts sister publication that the Amazon Air fleet would grow again, with at least 10 additional freighters in the next two years, leased from ATSG, with options for even more 767Fs in subsequent years.