Amazon opens $1.5bn air hub in Kentucky in push to make delivery ever-faster

Amazon has officially opened its long-planned $1.5 billion air delivery hub in northern Kentucky, the latest worldwide real estate expansion in its quest to bring lighting-fast delivery to its more than 300 million customers.

The new hub, at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, opened on Wednesday, and has been in development for more than four years. It features aircraft parking and an 800,000 square foot robotic sorting center, where packages are prepared to be put on trucks and driven across the country. The more than 600 acre development can house up to 100 Amazon-branded planes and is projected to run an estimated 200 flights per day.

“This hub is going to let us get packages to customers faster,” Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos said at a groundbreaking in 2019. “That’s a big deal.”