Amazon's regional air hub at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport will open
next month.
The regional air hub is the first build-to-suit airport
project of its kind in the Amazon Air network and was designed to
support Amazon Air’s larger scale regional needs, including
sortation capability and infrastructure to handle multiple flights
daily.
Amazon expects the facility to create 300 new
full-time jobs over time as operations reach full capacity.
“We are excited to start flying
to and from our new facility at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport
very soon – this facility will allow us to offer even more
selection and faster delivery to our customers,” said Sarah
Rhoads, Vice President of Amazon Global Air. “This is our latest
investment in Texas and we look forward to hiring top talent from
the local community.”
Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 22,000
full-time, full-benefit jobs in Texas and invested more than $10
billion in the state, from building customer fulfillment
facilities, cloud infrastructure, and a 253-megawatt wind farm, to
compensation to its teams.
These direct investments contributed an
additional $9 billion to the Texas economy and generated an
additional 32,000 indirect jobs on top of the company’s direct
hires.
More than 130,000 authors, developers, and small and
mid-sized businesses in Texas are also growing their businesses
with Amazon.
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