Amazon’s air hub at San Bernardino International Airport is a critical connection between online shoppers across the United States and the goods they order.
In July, we visited the air cargo hub – the online retailer’s third-largest in the country – to see what’s going on inside.
From robots to roaring jets, this is what we saw.
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Automated robots, called Drives, quickly move packages at Amazon’s air cargo hub in San Bernardino on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The 650,000-square-foot facility is Amazon’s third-largest air cargo hub in the U.S. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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An Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 arrives at Amazon’s air hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The 61,000-square-foot facility is Amazon’s third-largest air hub in the country. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Amazon employees unload package containers from an Airbus A330 at the San Bernardino air hub on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The facility handles ten inbound and ten outbound flights daily. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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An Amazon employee closes a cargo door on a Boeing 767 before it departs from Amazon’s air hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Amazon employees unload cargo units full of packages from an Airbus A330 jet at Amazon’s San Bernardino air hub on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Amazon employees unload containers from a jet at the company’s air hub in San Bernardino on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Zero-emissions equipment on the air hub’s ramp is helping the facility reduce its carbon footprint. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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An Amazon employee walks under an Airbus A330 being loaded with cargo at the company’s air hub in San Bernardino on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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A device measures the WetBulb Globe temperature on the tarmac of Amazon’s air hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Managers said the WetBulb temperature provides a more accurate reading of heat stress. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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An Amazon employee waits among a fleet of Boeing 767 jets at the company’s air hub in San Bernardino to assist in the departure of a jet on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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An Amazon employee prepares for a departure at its air hub in San Bernardino on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Boeing 767s and Airbus A330s connect the facility to destinations throughout the continental U.S. and Hawaii. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Casters built into a loading dock at Amazon’s air cargo hub in San Bernardino help load and unload containers onto and off aircraft at the facility at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Packages are moved on a conveyor belt for sortation at the Amazon air transportation hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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A package is moved on a conveyor belt for sortation at Amazon’s air cargo center at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The facility handles at least 18,000 shipments per hour. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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A robotic arm named Robin picks up a package at Amazon’s air hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Robots are being used to reduce the burden on employees, the air hub’s general manager said. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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An outbound truck is loaded with packages at Amazon’s air cargo hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Truck and aircraft movements are coordinated to ensure efficient and rapid package flow. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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A cart, seen Tuesday, July 23, 2024, contains refrigeration equipment that managers say is available to employees at Amazon’s air cargo hub at San Bernardino International Airport. The online retailer says it is taking a number of steps to protect employees in a region where temperatures can soar above 100 degrees in the summer. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Mike Berg, general manager of Amazon’s air cargo hub in San Bernardino, describes how the facility works as a Boeing 767 is loaded on the ramp at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Packages are transported on a high-speed conveyor belt and automatically scanned on six sides at the Amazon air hub at San Bernardino International Airport on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Automated robots, called Drives, quickly move packages at Amazon’s air cargo hub in San Bernardino on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The 650,000-square-foot facility is Amazon’s third-largest air cargo hub in the U.S. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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