United Airlines has officially opened a new addition to its Flight Training Center in Denver. The airline, the largest carrier at Denver International Airport, spent $145 million on the 150,000-square-foot building on the 23-acre campus in northeast Denver.
United Airlines officially opened a new 150,000-square-foot building at its Flight Training Center in Denver on Thursday, marking a milestone in its quest to hire 10,000 new pilots by 2030.
United, the largest carrier at Denver International Airport, spent more than $145 million on the new building. The airline said the addition to the 23-acre campus in northeast Denver will allow it to conduct more than 32,000 training events annually and train up to 860 pilots daily.
The training center, which United said is the largest of its kind in the world, now has eight buildings, more than 700,000 square feet of training space and 46 state-of-the-art flight simulators.
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