Online retailer Amazon is trying to sell excess space in its cargo planes to other parties. This is how the American company wants to adapt to the new economic reality, insiders reported to the Bloomberg news agency. Amazon has benefited greatly from the many online shopping consumers during the corona pandemic. But now that period of stormy growth is over and many people are paying more attention to their expenses because of the sharp rise in inflation.

One option that would be considered is filling empty planes returning from Hawaii and Alaska with pineapple and salmon. Amazon would rather temporarily stuff its planes with other goods than sell them. The company assumes that consumer demand will pick up again.

Amazon has a fleet of about 100 aircraft in the United States and Europe. The company takes into account that it will not be able to fill all those aircraft itself in the near future. Hence, people have been hired in recent months with experience in marketing cargo space for airlines, the sources said.

An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment. In November there were also reports that Amazon wanted to cut many thousands of jobs. In the corona years, the tech company's workforce almost doubled to meet the strong growth of online shopping. But now Amazon expects lesser times due to the decreased purchasing power and a possible economic recession.

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