Amazon Air off to the races with rapid summer expansion

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While Amazon Air is both good for the company and its customers, there is a loser in all of this. Mainly, major freight providers such as UPS, which continues to ship products for Amazon. That said, the company dumped FedEx in 2019 in order to cut costs and shift its focus to Amazon Air.

For UPS, the writing is certainly on the wall as Amazon Air continues to expand its fleet and daily flights. While it remains unknown as to when Amazon will dump UPS, it is safe to assume that it will happen at one point or another.

The report writes, “Over the course of the six days, we observed in August (which covered every day of the week except Sunday), Amazon Air appears to have grown roughly 28% to 30% since May (although our limited data from April does not allow us to conclude this with certainty).”

This is another pertinent example of Amazon’s role as an innovator in the U.S. economy, forever changing the landscape with industry-wide implications. Will America’s freight giants survive Amazon Air’s ascendency?