Amazon has been stepping up efforts to handle more packages fully on its own.
The online retailer announced it will lease an additional 15 cargo planes from GE Capital Aviation Services. The deal was announced Tuesday at the Paris Air Show. The company is buying vans so more deliveries to customers' doors can be made by independent contractors rather than providers such as the US Postal Service, United Parcel Service and FedEx . Earlier this month FedEx announced it wouldn't renew its US contract with Amazon to transport packages on FedEx Express.
announced a deal with Boeing Monday to convert more planes from passenger to cargo use.Read MoreAmazon started leasing cargo jets in 2016. It is also in the process of building a main air hub on 210 acres at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. That hub is set open in 2021. Amazon's new futuristic drone will soon deliver packagesEarlier this year a cargo jet operated for Amazon by Atlas Air crashed near the airport in Houston, killing all three crew members aboard.
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