through Jacksonville sorting centers<\/a> on the way to customers’ doorsteps.<\/p>\n“This is the next evolution of their growth in Northeast Florida,” Jacksonville Aviation Authority CEO Mark VanLoh said.<\/p>\n
\nWhen will Amazon Air plans start landing in Jacksonville? <\/p>\n
The aviation authority says it expects Amazon Air will start operations in the fourth quarter of 2026, which would be between Oct. 1 and the end of the year.<\/p>\n
\nWhy is Amazon Air expanding in Jacksonville? <\/p>\n
Just as Amazon uses its trucks to move shipments over roads, Amazon Air has its own fleet of planes moving shipments to its customers around the globe.<\/p>\n
Amazon Air currently operates out of Miami International Airport in South Florida and Lakeland Linder Airport in Central Florida.<\/p>\n
The addition of Jacksonville International Airport will bring Amazon Air to the northern part of the state.<\/p>\n
\nWill Amazon gets packages faster to Jacksonville customers? <\/p>\n
A drive from Lakeland to Jacksonville takes about three hours so any packages flown to Jacksonville International Airport would get them that much closer to their final destinations in Jacksonville. But it’s not clear how much difference that would make in the overall scheme of how Amazon combines air and ground shipping for delivery times.<\/p>\n
\nHow big will Amazon Air facility be in Jacksonville? <\/p>\n
Amazon will use an existing 50,128 square foot hangar on about 4.7 acres at 142000 Pecan Park Road.<\/p>\n
Amazon Air’s busiest airport in Florida will still be in Lakeland where Amazon’s presence helped make Lakeland Linder the state’s third-ranked for cargo weight in 2024 behind the Miami and Orlando airports.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville International Airport ranked seventh for cargo that year. Amazon Air’s arrival would boost cargo volumes in Jacksonville when it planes start landing.<\/p>\n
Editor’s note: This story<\/a> was first published by our news partners, The Florida Times-Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Air will begin operations at Jacksonville International Airport in late 2026. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Amazon Air will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-142369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}