These names can be personal to either or both. In even some cases, there are specific nicknames that individual grandparents went by for a good portion of their lives that their grandkids picked up on and began using. Others have cultural or religious connotations for grandparents. Many families see it as cute and go with it for many years. Some use unintelligible words that they came up with as toddlers. This is true of many kids, but of course not all. The plural is die Omas and the diminutive is das Omi. The German name for grandmother is die Großmutter and Oma in the familiar. When talking about multiple grandpas it is die Opas. In German, der Opa is a familiar name given to a grandfather or der Großvater. So, what do children in Germany call their grandparents? As with most kids around the world they don’t call them by their proper names, and usually don’t simply use the equivalent of grandmother or grandfather. In June of 2020, the company leased a dozen 767s from Air Transport Services Group, Inc.įinancial terms of the sale were not disclosed.For many little ones in Germany some of their favorite people besides their parents are their grandparents. Tuesday's news is the first purchase of jets, but also the second time in the pandemic that the company has added to its number of planes. But those are for the last leg of the delivery journey - it still relies on planes to get packages across vast distances, quickly. The company uses parcel services such as UPS and FedEx for its current deliveries, but is moving to build its own delivery network as it increasingly views itself as a competitor to those services, not a partner.Īmazon owns tens of thousands of its own delivery trucks, and has been experimenting with its own fleet of autonomous delivery drones. Amazon building delivery networkĪmazon launched its own air cargo fleet in 2016 and, prior to Tuesday's news, the company leased 80 planes, but the move is the first time the company has bought their own. The four jets represents WestJet's entire fleet of 767s. "We are pleased they found a home with Amazon."
"Last year our 767s were removed from service as we gauged market interest for the procurement of the 767 fleet," spokesperson Morgan Bell told CBC News in a statement. The 767 was a key jet for WestJet in its evolution as it was the airline's only wide-body jet, but the airline has recently decommissioned its entire fleet of them and moved to larger 787 Dreamliners for many long-haul flights.
in the way that they expect from Amazon, and purchasing our own aircraft is a natural next step toward that goal," Sarah Rhoads, vice-president of Amazon Global Air, said in a release. "Our goal is to continue delivering for customers across the U.S. The WestJet jets will join Amazon's fleet some time this year and the Delta ones in 2022. In a release, the company said the 11 jets, which are all Boeing 767-300s, are all currently set up to carry passengers but are in the process of being converted to carry only cargo. Amazon is buying four jets from WestJet and seven from Delta as the e-commerce giant moves to beef up its delivery fleet at a time when passenger jets are no longer so in demand.
0 kommentar(er)
