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Kinda surprised they're not buying Boeing 737 MAX for cargo. You'd imagine there would be some good deals to be had

Amazon buys retired planes from other airlines - like [1] built in 1991, flown by Quantas then Westjet, now used by Amazon; or [2] built in 1994, flown by Sobelair, then Vietnam Airlines then Air Europa then Kenya Airways then Nordwind Airlines then Atlas Air, now used by Amazon.

The 737 MAX might be cheap, but it's not 25-30 year old plane cheap.

[1] https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-767-300-n503az... [2] https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-767-300-n1997a...

>The 737 MAX might be cheap, but it's not 25-30 year old plane cheap.

That makes sense. However a newer plan also has a longer expected usage and likely lower fuel and maintenance cost.

So looking at absolute cost only doesn't really make sense.

Presumably Amazon crunched the numbers though

likely because the 767 size & range is larger.

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