Airbus Updates No.4057

 

Hawaiian Airlines welcomes 1st Airbus A330-300P2F

On 2 July 2023, the first Airbus A330-300P2F for Hawaiian Airlines arrived at Honolulu (HI) after a ferry-flight from Shanghai-Pudong via Seoul-Incheon. The Airbus is registered N4621K (1902). It was originally built for Hong Kong Airlines as B-LHI but was never taken-up and has been stored for quite a while at Tarbes-Lourdes. Since November 2022, it was at Shanghai-Pudong for the conversion into a freighter.

The Airbus is the first of ten A330-300P2Fs Hawaiian Airlines will operate for Amazon Prime Air. The Airbuses will be based at Cincinnati-Kentucky International (KY), which has a large Amazon-hub. The remaining nine are expected to all be delivered before the end of next year.

Once in service, the A330s will also be the first Airbus-freighters in use for Amazon. Until now, Amazon has only been flying with ATR72s, Boeing B737-800(F)s, and B767-300(F)s.

Airbus Updates No.3610

 

Amazon set to acquire A330-300P2Fs and B777-300ERSFs

According to Bloomberg, Amazon is searching the market to acquire ten A330-300s and an unspecified number of B777-300ERs which it then plans to convert into freighters. The plan is then to place the aircraft with various carriers which will operate them for the e-commerce giant.

Currently, Amazon Prime Air has a fleet of 75 aircraft, consisting of 23 B737-800BCFs (operated by ASL Airlines Ireland, Southern Air and Sun Country Airlines), and 52 B767-300ERBCF/BDSFs (operated by Air Transport International, Atlas Air and CargoJet). The company is also set to introduce at least four ATR72-freighters which will be operated by Silver Airways.