Amazon to launch Leipzig/Halle base

Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul) has taken delivery of the first B737-800 freighter which will be deployed into service on behalf of Amazon.com, Cargo Facts has reported.

N547RL (msn 32348), an 18.6-year-old narrowbody previously operated in passenger configuration by Pegasus Airlines (PC, Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen) and owned by GECAS, was ferried after conversion from Shanghai Pudong via Phnom Penh, Saipan and Honolulu to Everett over the course of March 22-23, 2020, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows.

Sun Country Airlines is due to start cargo operations on behalf of Amazon later this year. The Minneapolis/St. Paul-based leisure specialist currently exclusively operates passenger aircraft, namely one B737-700 and thirty B737-800s. It also has a further two -800s sub-dry-leased from Transavia Airlines in storage at Minneapolis airport.

Sun Country plans to eventually operate ten B737-800(F)s for Amazon. It initially planned to launch these operations in April 2020.

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Air Hong Kong (LD, Hong Kong Int'l) has added its first A330-300(F) in the form of B-LDO (msn 116), Skyliner Aviation has reported.

The 24.3-year-old freighter is owned by EAT Leipzig and was transferred from ASL Airlines Ireland (ABR, Dublin Int'l). It was wet-leased to Air Hong Kong until May 29, 2019, and was subsequently flown to Singapore Seletar for maintenance, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. The freighter was ferried back to Hong Kong Int'l on December 23, 2019, and has yet to be deployed into commercial service.

Air Hong Kong wet-leases two more A330-300(F)s, as well as one A330-200(F) and one A300-600(F), from ASL Airlines Ireland. In mid-2019, the airline said that it planned to take over the operation of one A330-300(F) and the -200(F) from ASL Aviation Holdings subsidiary, with the fate of the other two -300(F)s unknown.

Air Hong Kong's in-house fleet comprises nine A300-600(F)s. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific and operates exclusively on behalf of DHL Express.