从贝佐斯公务机飞行记录分析亚马逊第二总部可能在哪

亚马逊将第二总部选择缩小到20个城市以来，已经四个多月过去了。

富国银行的人工智能项目预测波士顿可能胜出，但其他迹象显示答案可能要靠南一些。

过去两年里，亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯的私人飞机多次前往某地。据《普吉特湾商业杂志》报道，贝佐斯去该地的频率甚至比总部西雅图还高，就是位于弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的里根华盛顿国家机场。

第二总部备选名单里有三个距离里根机场很近，一是华盛顿特区，二是北弗吉尼亚，三是马里兰州蒙哥马利郡。

至于贝佐斯频繁前往是否代表拿定主意，现在还很难说。贝佐斯在附近有处豪宅，另外他也是《华盛顿邮报》老板，总部位于华盛顿特区。此外亚马逊曾告诉福克斯商业频道，“杰夫私人旅行和出差情况跟第二总部选择毫无关系。”

看来我们只能跟其他人一样，年底等着亚马逊自己宣布了。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie

审稿：夏林

It’s been more than four months since Amazon narrowed down its list of HQ2 candidates to 20 finalists.

And while Wells Fargo’s AI program has predicted that Boston is most likely to emerge the winner, other clues are pointing to sites a little further south.

In the last two years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ private jet has made repeated trips to one particular destination. That destination — the only one that has been visited more frequently even than Amazon’s home base in Seattle — is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., reports the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Three of the finalists for HQ2 are a stone’s throw from Reagan: Washington, D.C., northern Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland.

Whether these frequent trips are indicative of Bezos’ decision, however, remains unclear. Bezos owns a mansion in the area and is also owner of the D.C.-based Washington Post. Amazon also told Fox Business that “there’s no connection between Jeff’s personal and business travel, and our HQ2 search.”

Looks like we’ll have to wait until the end of the year for the formal announcement along with everyone else.