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Amazon expands air cargo service to India even as company cuts costs - CtrlF.XYZ

Amazon expands air cargo service to India even as company cuts costs

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A wide assemblage craft emblazoned with Amazon's Prime logo lands astatine Lehigh Valley International Airport successful Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 20, 2016. Picture taken December 20, 2016. To lucifer Insight AMAZON.COM-SHIPPING/ REUTERS/Mark Makela

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Amazon connected Monday announced it's bringing its aerial cargo operations to India, marking caller maturation for the company's logistics limb adjacent arsenic it looks to chopped costs successful different divisions.

The e-retailer is utilizing 2 Boeing 737-800 craft flown by Quikjet Cargo Airlines to vessel packages crossed Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai. Amazon Air volition alteration the institution to connection faster deliveries to customers successful India, said Sarah Rhoads, vice president of Amazon Global Air, successful a statement.

The motorboat of Amazon Air successful India comes arsenic Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is undergoing a wide review of the company's expenses arsenic it stares down a worsening economical outlook and slowing retail sales. Last week, Amazon began the latest phase of the largest layoffs successful its 28-year history, which are expected to effect successful 18,000 employees being laid off. Jassy has looked to slash costs successful different ways, including instituting a hiring frost crossed Amazon's firm workforce, axing immoderate projects and pausing warehouse expansion.

Even arsenic helium looks to trim expenses, Jassy has antecedently said the institution intends to support pursuing semipermanent opportunities and proceed to put successful its stores, advertizing and cloud-computing businesses, among others.

Amazon Air, which debuted successful 2016, outsources operations to respective airlines. The work allows Amazon to person greater power implicit the velocity and outgo of deliveries, which the institution has worked to accelerate from 2 days to one- and same-day successful much parts of the U.S.

Amazon Air launched successful the U.S., past expanded to Europe. India is the 3rd marketplace and Amazon Air's archetypal cognition successful Asia.

Amazon has for years been moving to grow its beingness successful India, which is poised to go 1 of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets successful the world.

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