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As online shopping booms, Amazon swoops on four ex-Qantas Boeing 767s – Executive Traveller
The popular and long-lived jet gains a new lease of life with Amazon’s own cargo airline.
Amazon has bought four Boeing 767s formerly flown by Qantas to bulk up its Amazon Air fleet of cargo jets.
The online retailer’s fast-growing freight airline will also welcome seven Boeing 767s from Delta Air Lines, in what represents the first outright purchase rather than ongoing lease of aircraft.
Qantas flew its last Boeing 767 passenger jet in December 2014, after 30 years in which the mid-sized twin-aisle jet dominated international routes to the Pacific (including New Zealand, Fiji and Honolulu)…
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