Corning flies to Morristown the week of its Amazon fiber optic deal

Corning flew from Elmira-Corning Regional Airport to Morristown Municipal Airport on June 9, 2026, a 34-minute hop aboard Challenger 850 N28CG. The short flight into the New Jersey suburbs, home to many financial and technology executives, came at a busy moment for the company.

The same week, Corning announced a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Amazon to supply optical fiber for the tech giant's expanding U.S. data centers, as Reuters reported on June 8. The deal will create about 1,000 jobs at Corning's North Carolina facilities and follows a similar $3.2 billion commitment from NVIDIA announced in May, which itself will build three new advanced manufacturing plants and add more than 3,000 jobs across North Carolina and Texas, per the joint press release.

Corning's flight department has been unusually active this week. N28CG logged at least two round trips between Elmira and the Charlotte area in recent days, and other company aircraft have made multiple shuttles to the Carolinas — a logical base for overseeing the company's rapidly expanding optical connectivity footprint as AI infrastructure demand continues to pull fiber manufacturing onshore.