Amazon to Lease 20 Boeing Planes for Deliveries The deal comes at a time when Amazon has been trying to make shipments even faster as well as assume more control over its business and costs.

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Amazon.com Inc. will lease 20 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, lessor Air Transport Services Group Inc. said on Wednesday, as the online retailer moves closer to setting up its own air delivery network.

The deal comes at a time when Amazon, which offers fast and increasingly free deliveries for millions of online orders, has been trying to make shipments even faster as well as assume more control over its business and costs.

The ecommerce giant has been testing deliveries by drones, but has not said when it expects to have them in service.

The duration of the leases will be five to seven years, ATSG said.

As part of the agreement, Amazon also has the right to buy up to 19.9 percent of ATSG's stock over five years at $9.73 per share. The price is at a 17.3 percent discount to ATSG's Tuesday closing price of $11.77.

ATSG's shares jumped 21 percent to $14.25 in premarket trading.

(Reporting by Sai Sachin R in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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