Amazon Announces New Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Air Hub to Start Operations in October – Facility to Create 300 New Jobs
September 12 2019 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
This facility—the company’s latest investment
in Texas—will support Amazon Air
On September 17th, Amazon to hold ‘Amazon
Career Day’ event in Dallas for job seekers to learn more about the
thousands of open positions across Texas—candidates can register at
amazon.jobs/careerday
Amazon has created more than 22,000 full-time
jobs in Texas and invested over $10 billion in the state since
2010, including customer fulfillment facilities, cloud
infrastructure, and a 253-megawatt wind farm
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its Regional Air Hub at
the Fort Worth Alliance Airport will open in October. The Regional
Air Hub is the first build-to-suit airport project of its kind in
the Amazon Air network and was designed to support Amazon Air’s
larger scale regional needs, including sortation capability and
infrastructure to handle multiple flights daily.
Amazon expects this facility to create 300 new full-time jobs
over time as operations reach full capacity. Job seekers interested
in learning more about Amazon’s new positions in Dallas-Fort Worth
and across Texas can attend the Dallas Amazon Career Day event on
September 17th. For more information – including how to register
for the event and apply for open roles – visit
amazon.jobs/careerday.
“We are excited to start flying to and from our new facility at
the Fort Worth Alliance Airport very soon – this facility will
allow us to offer even more selection and faster delivery to our
customers,” said Sarah Rhoads, Vice President of Amazon Global Air.
“This is our latest investment in Texas and we look forward to
hiring top talent from the local community.”
The new Regional Air Hub will include daily flights and allow
Amazon to further serve its customer base in the Dallas-Fort Worth
Metroplex.
Amazon Career Day
To help job seekers connect with their next career opportunity,
Amazon will hold six informational and networking events next
Tuesday, September 17th in Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Nashville,
Seattle and Arlington, Virginia – the site of the company’s second
headquarters in North America. In Dallas, the event will be from
11:30 am to 7 pm at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. Amazon Career
Day events will feature businesses across Amazon, and recruiters
will be on-hand to talk with candidates about corporate roles at
our 18 Tech Hubs, as well as within our customer fulfillment,
delivery, and retail facilities. In addition to the positions
available at the company, the events will include informational
sessions on how to be your own boss with help from Amazon by
selling on Amazon, starting your own delivery company becoming a
Delivery Service Partner, or publishing your own book.
With more than 650,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been
recognized on LinkedIn’s Top Companies list for the past four
years, ranked #2 in the Fortune 2017 and 2018 World’s Most Admired
Companies, and ranked #5 in Fast Company's World’s Most Innovative
Companies. The company also receives a perfect score from the Human
Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. Amazon provides highly
competitive benefits to full-time employees, including
comprehensive healthcare from day one, 401(k) matching, and up to
20 weeks of paid parental leave — from the company’s most senior
executives to its hourly FC associates. Through its Upskilling 2025
initiative, Amazon has also committed $700 million to programs
aiming to provide its employees with the skills they need for new,
in-demand jobs, from paid cloud computing apprenticeships to its
Career Choice program, which pre-pays 95% of tuition for courses in
high-demand fields, regardless of whether skills are relevant to a
career at Amazon.
Investing and creating jobs in Texas
Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 22,000 full-time,
full-benefit jobs in Texas and invested more than $10 billion in
the state, from building customer fulfillment facilities, cloud
infrastructure, and a 253-megawatt wind farm, to compensation to
its teams. These direct investments contributed an additional $9
billion to the Texas economy and generated an additional 32,000
indirect jobs on top of the company’s direct hires. More than
130,000 authors, developers, and small and mid-sized businesses in
Texas are also growing their businesses with Amazon.
About Amazon Air
Amazon’s first branded aircraft, Amazon One, took to the skies
in 2016. Amazon operates over 45 aircraft in its fleet at over 20
air gateways across the country and will open a central air hub at
the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 2021. To
learn more about Amazon Air, please visit:
https://blog.aboutamazon.com/transportation/introducing-amazon-one.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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