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A rendering of Amazon Air's processing centre, which is scheduled to open this autumn, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in the United States. Amazon announced this month it was buying 11 Boeing 767-300 jets for its air cargo division, as the company cannot meet its one-and two-day shipping pledge to customers without an ever-expanding fleet of jets.
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Amazon.com is opening warehouses and shipping hubs in the United States at the rate of about one every 24 hours. The ultimate aim is to ensure that virtually every product the company sells is a van ride - and eventually a drone flight - away from customers' homes.
And yet, Amazon announced this month it was buying 11 Boeing 767-300 jets for its air cargo division, mostly to get products to Prime subscribers.
