Amazon Air added nine new planes to its fleet between May and July of this year, the most it has ever added in a three-month time span. The company now has about 70 planes, up from around 50 in February 2019. It's expected t...

Amazon delivered 66% of its own packages in July 2020, up from 54% in July 2019 and 61% between April and June. Like other companies including FedEx, UPS and DHL, Amazon has been enjoying an e-commerce boost due to the COVID...

Amazon has filed patents for delivery robots that could wait for customers to try on clothes and shoes. The customer would open what is essentially an Amazon Locker on caterpillar tracks, using facial recognition or a smartp...

Last week Amazon lifted its ban on FedEx Ground for deliveries of Prime shipments by its third-party Marketplace sellers. Amazon had temporarily banned the carrier’s road service in the run-up to Christmas, the busiest...

Amazon has barred its third-party merchants from using FedEx Ground for deliveries of Prime shipments. In a message it sent to merchants in the run-up to Christmas, the company said the ban would last “until the delive...

Amazon is now delivering half of its own parcels in the US, according to an estimate made by Morgan Stanley. The proportion of parcels delivered by Amazon doubled in the last year alone. At its current rate, the company will...

Amazon has switched two of its Boeing 767 leases from Atlas Air to ATSG, following Atlas’ ongoing conflicts with its trade union. Earlier this year, Amazon warned Atlas to resolve negotiations or else there could be &l...

UPS may get a boost in holiday e-commerce traffic following the FedEx-Amazon split, according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon will need to make up for capacity after being dropped by FedEx, and UPS, USPS and regional carr...

Amazon’s fifth annual Prime Day, which actually took place over two days (July 15-16th), saw a record-breaking 175 million items purchased, bringing a sharp rise in traffic for parcel delivery companies. This follows 1...

Pilots for Atlas Air, who have been engaged in a long dispute with the company over working conditions, have been instructed by arbitrators to finalise their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The System Board of Adjustm...

Amazon revealed its new Prime Air delivery drone at the Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas this week, saying that a drone delivery service could be launched in a matter of months. The drone is a hybrid aircraft that is capable ...

Amazon broke ground on the construction of its new $1.5 billion air freight hub near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on Tuesday. CEO Jeff Bezos has boasted that the hub, measuring 2.6 million square feet, ...

Social media has been reacting to a Japanese artist’s computer-generated rendering of an Amazon delivery blimp, which is loosely based on a patent the retailer was granted in 2018. In the patent, which Amazon originall...

Amazon Air is adding a B737-800 converted freighter to its fleet, according to a photo tweeted by senior vice president of operations, Dave Clark. The addition is notable from being a different model than the others in the f...

UBS has joined Morgan Stanley in warning that Amazon could pose a serious competitive threat to companies such as UPS and FedEx, despite these companies trying to downplay Amazon’s potential impact. Amazon “remai...

Despite every major player in the business attempting to downplay Amazon as a direct competitor of UPS and FedEx—the latter of whom released a statement last week with the express purpose of pointing out how little of t...

Last week FedEx released a “Statement Regarding FedEx Corporation’s Relationship with Amazon.com, Inc.” with the express purpose of showing how little of the company’s revenue comes from the retailer. ...

Amazon Air has leased another 10 Boeing 767-300 freighters from ATSG, bringing the total number of aircraft to 50. The move had been anticipated in the industry as Amazon has the capacity for a hundred aircraft at its new hu...

Amazon has announced to its third-party sellers that it will be charging new penalty fees for unsafe packages, including unmarked aerosols and chemical leaks. This follows a growing number of incident reports regarding Amazo...

Amazon has purchased 20,000 Sprinter model vans from Mercedes-Benz for its new Amazon Delivery Service Partner programme, which recruits third-party entrepreneurs for last mile parcel deliveries. This is more than four times...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned an Amazon ad that promises one-day delivery for Prime members, on the basis that customers were misled. 280 people complained to the ASA after not receiving their goods within...

Amazon has struck its first major British public sector contract in a £600 million procurement deal with Yorkshire. The e-commerce company signed a five-year deal with Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), which is ...

Amazon has been granted a patent for floating fulfilment centres, as a drone-friendly alternative to terrestrial warehouses. “The AFC (airborne fulfillment center) may be an airship that remains at a high altitude (e.g...

Amazon has launched a limited package delivery service for Amazon Prime subscribers that allows parcels to be left in the backs of customers’ vehicles. After trials last year, Amazon is rolling out the service in 37 US...