The Internet mail order company Amazon has opened its first regional air freight center in Europe at Leipzig-Halle Airport. Amazon Air created new jobs with it 200, Amazon announced on Thursday. At the site, packages are sorted and trucks and aircraft are loaded and unloaded.

Two Boing machines 737 – 800 have been leased. They complement the existing fleet of more than 80 aircraft that are operated within Amazon Air’s air freight network. Most recently in June, Amazon added 12 new machines to its fleet.

Two a day Handling flights At the location with a size of 20. 000 square meters, deliveries to customers have already started. Two flights are to be processed daily, Amazon said. Amazon has around 1500 employees in Leipzig and has been based there since 2006. Nationwide the company has 15 locations with 16 000 employees.

“It speaks clearly in favor of Saxony as a business location that Amazon continues to invest heavily in Leipzig and is opening its new freight center here at the airport. This creates the most modern workplaces for a A large number of skilled workers have been created, “said Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU). “We are pleased that we have won another well-known logistics company for the airport,” said Götz Ahmelmann, Managing Director of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG.

(axk )