- Amazon operates its own planes to meet its goals to deliver packages to passengers quicker.
- It is now expanding its Amazon Air fleet, and just announced that it will lease 15 planes that Boeing is converting from passenger planes to cargo planes.
- We took a look inside one at the Paris Air Show, to see how Amazon gets your orders to you quickly.
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Amazon operates its own fleet of jets to deliver packages around the world and get them to customers quicker.
It announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its number of planes, and aims to have 70 by 2021 as part of its bid to complete its own deliveries so it can deliver products to customers in just one day.
It will be adding 15 Boeing planes as part of this, which are older 737-800 planes that have been converted to carry cargo around the world.
Business Insider took a look around a newly converted plane at the Paris Air Show, before it was delivered.
Here’s what the plane is like:
Amazon promises speedy delivery on millions of items, and launched its own airline in 2016 so it could have its own cargo planes to fulfill that promise.
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It has expanded that fleet since, most recently with an announcement on Tuesday that it will increase the number of planes it operates to 70 by 2021. It wants to use these to decrease its Prime delivery time to a maximum of one day.
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Amazon will be using the 15 new planes after they were bought by GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS).
These new cargo planes are actually converted Boeing 737-800 passenger planes, which Boeing calls "BCF"s, or Boeing Converted Freighters. You can see the passenger windows blocked out on the side of the plane.
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Source: Business Insider – sbaker@businessinsider.com (Sinéad Baker)