Amazon Europe
With the recent suggestions of expansion into Southend and presumably other gateways in Europe I thought it might be useful to have a thread to outline the current network and any future expansion news or rumours can go in this thread.
The current network is centred on hubs around the DHL network who they appear to be hubbing with in USA too with a sizeable hub at Cincinnati. East Midlands, Leipzig and Cologne all feature heavily. The majority of the European network is operated by ASL Group with six aircraft, with two routes operated by DHL/EAT.
ASL are currently operating - all with B737-400F
Cologne-Milan MXP, Madrid, East Midlands
Leipzig-Paris CDG
East Midlands-Madrid-Milan MXP-East Midlands
Hanover-East Midlands-Milan MXP-Hanover
DHL also operate two trunk routes with B757-200F
East Midlands-Leipzig, Madrid
It was recently announced that ASL Group have ten B737-800F coming soon - my thinking is it's likely to be these that will kick start the growth of the European network for Amazon flying, probably introducing the brand to the flying too as currently they all fly in plain white or company liveries. It is interesting to note that the Amazon flights currently fly during the daytime hours and also operate seven days a week, which the large integrator networks usually only operate weekdays 4 or 5 days a week and usually overnight too. This should allow use of existing freighter aircraft that are normally idle during the day giving better utilisation rates. It will be interesting to see whether the 738s on order for ASL are used in this way.