📻 @GovMattBevin on @UPS expansion @FlyLouisville + workforce demands, @JCPSKY scores, @ChurchillDowns growth for gaming, today's debate vs @AndyBeshearKY, more 🎙️ AUDIO https://t.co/EDLCqZRreS #Kentucky #workforcedevelopment #Election2019 #kygov @840WHAS 📸 @heraldleader @Uber pic.twitter.com/WcQjO9CopZ— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) October 3, 2019 Live now with @terrymeiners...Join us! https://t.co/7qXzfUiI14— Governor Matt Bevin (@GovMattBevin) October 3, 2019 📻 @louisvillemayor Fischer on @UPS expansion @FlyLouisville + workforce needs, more downtown hotel growth, and @ChurchillDowns expansion across 4th Street 🎙️ AUDIO https://t.co/8yVdsj5cnb #Louisville #loubiz #workforcedevelopment @840WHAS pic.twitter.com/69sBccduuf— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) October 3, 2019 📻 @RepJohnYarmuth on impeachment vs. 2020 election cycle, says @AdamSchiff parody of @realDonaldTrump "was a mistake, he shouldn't have done that" + wonders if media will cover @TheDemocrats accomplishments 🎙️ @840WHAS AUDIO ➡️ https://t.co/mBWcP4AVrX #im🍑ment
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UPS, FedEx, and other cargo delivery companies hear footsteps from Amazon
With its massive package sorting hub facilities around Louisville International Airport, United Parcel Service is one of Kentucky's largest employers. About 11,000 people work for UPS in the Louisville area. With the burgeoning growth of Amazon's Prime Air fleet, much of which is directed toward Northern Kentucky's Cincinnati airport, the next few years could could create incredible headwinds for UPS, Fed Ex, and other package delivery companies. Amazon would love to cut its operating costs by flying their own packages instead of paying UPS and others to do it for them. Amazon, the second most valuable company in the world (trailing only Apple Inc), is putting together its own air force to dominate yet one more business market. Since permits and
Don’t drone on about slow delivery
UPDATE -- Mark Sheehan on the expansive growth of drone use strategies and potential (December 2018) CBS News magazine 60 Minutes interviewed Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos who projects that drones will deliver packages within 5 years. The Louisville area has two Amazon fulfillment centers and the primary UPS air freight hub, which would be threatened by Bezos' vision. Stay tuned.