Corning flies to Charlotte the week of its Amazon and NVIDIA manufacturing deals

Corning flew from Elmira-Corning Regional to Charlotte Douglas International on June 10, 2026, a 1-hour 34-minute hop aboard Challenger 850 N28CG. The flight touches down two days after the company announced a multibillion-dollar partnership with Amazon to supply optical fiber for U.S. data centers [marketscreener.com](https://www.marketscreener.com/news/amazon-corning-sign-multi-billion-dollar-deal-to-boost-fiber-optics-manufacturing-in-us-ce7f5dd3d98eff21). The deal is expected to create 1,000 manufacturing jobs at Corning's North Carolina facilities [spectrumlocalnews.com](https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2026/06/08/amazon--corning-announce-plan-to-bring-big-boost-to-u-s--fiberoptics-manufacturing).

The Amazon agreement follows a May partnership with NVIDIA to expand U.S. optical connectivity capacity tenfold and build three new plants in North Carolina and Texas [corning.com](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2026/05/nvidia-and-corning-announce-long-term-partnership-to-strengthen-us-manufacturing-for-ai-infrastructure.html). Charlotte has become a hub for Corning's regional operations, with the company's existing Hickory fiber-optic cable plant nearby.

The flight is one of several between Elmira and Charlotte in recent days, a pattern consistent with overseeing a rapidly expanding manufacturing footprint in the Carolinas [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/articles/corning-inc-flight-1672).