Amazon Will Use Hawaiian Airlines to Operate Cargo Planes

Amazon Will Use Hawaiian Airlines to Operate Cargo Planes
An Hawaiian Airlines plane taxis for position at Kahalui, Hawaii on the island of Maui, on March 24, 2005. Lucy Pemoni/AP Photo, FIle
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HONOLULU—Hawaiian Airlines will operate 10 cargo planes for Amazon.com starting next fall under a deal that could eventually involve more planes and give Amazon a 15 percent stake in the airline.

The airline’s parent company, Hawaiian Holdings Inc., said Friday that it will fly and maintain an “initial fleet” of 10 leased Airbus A330-300 jets for the retail giant. The fleet could grow “depending on Amazon’s future business needs,” the company said.