What do you do at Amazon Air?

Explore what it's like to be an Amazon Air Associate
  • Load and unload aircraft and trucks.
  • Remove tie-downs and other gear when loading and unloading.
  • Prepare packages for sortation and load onto containers.
  • Weigh, label, or make/break-down gaylords or air-containers.




People Also Ask

Job Overview. You're on your way to joining Amazon Air and being part of the dedicated team that sorts packages in the warehouse or loads packages onto the aircraft – helping ensure customers receive their orders on time. Plus, you'll gain experience in a new industry that is transferable for an air cargo career.

MORE DETAILS

Amazon Air (often branded as Prime Air) is a cargo airline operating exclusively to transport Amazon packages. In 2017, it changed its name from Amazon Prime Air to Amazon Air to differentiate themselves from their Amazon Prime Air autonomous drone delivery service.

MORE DETAILS

The estimated total pay for a Air Gateway Associate at Amazon is $26 per hour. This number represents the median, which is the midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total Pay Estimate model and based on salaries collected from our users. The estimated base pay is $22 per hour.

MORE DETAILS

Since making its maiden flight in 2016, Amazon Air has been on a rapid growth trajectory, having grown to 42 airplanes by May 2020 and announcing plans to have at least 70 airplanes by 2021. In just three years, it has become a major component of Amazon's overnight and two-day delivery business.

MORE DETAILS

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) opened its $1.5 billion air hub, where packages are sent on planes to cities across the country, in September 2021. The facility has 4,500 workers and capacity for 33 planes but can eventually be expanded to park up to 100 freighters.

MORE DETAILS

Amazon decided it needed more control over its destiny. It needed its own air network. Amazon is famous—or infamous—for its breakneck pace of innovation and data-driven efforts to squeeze every drop of productivity out of workers.

MORE DETAILS

Candidates must be 18 years or older with ability to read and speak English for safety. Reasons you'll love working here: Career development: Many of our entry-level employees become leaders in operations, HR, and other areas. See where your Amazon journey can take you.

MORE DETAILS

Dress code. Relaxed, with a few rules to follow for safety. Comfortable, closed-toe shoes are required and protective safety footwear are required in select business units.

MORE DETAILS

Amazon has 89 aircraft in service, according to aircraft databases. It has: five ATR72Fs, operated by Silver Airways; 29 737Fs, operated by ASL Airlines, Atlas Air and Sun Country Airlines; and 55 767Fs, operated by Atlas Air, ATI and Cargojet.

MORE DETAILS

“The reported size of Amazon Air's fleet remained at 87 to 88 planes for most of the period from March to September, although several planes appear to be imminent.” Amazon Air, which has invested heavily in its operations in recent years, grew from 187 flights per day in March 2022 to 194 flights in September.

MORE DETAILS