- July 5, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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- Cargo carriers such as Amazon’s Prime Air are searching the American Southwest for former airliners stored in the desert.
- Arizona is home to Pinal Air Park, where between 40 and 50 jets have been bought by cargo carriers.
- Older passenger planes were bought at a discount during the pandemic and converted to freighters.
- See more stories on Insider’s business page.
When consumers turned to Amazon to buy more goods during the pandemic, Amazon turned to aircraft storage facilities in the desert to buy more cargo planes.
The rise of pandemic online shopping and e-commerce caused a cargo industry boom in the past year. While passenger airlines found themselves with too many airplanes, cargo airlines had too little and went shopping for planes being stored in the American Southwest.
“80% of all the stored…
