Overview
- United completed phase one of its Denver Flight Training Center expansion by adding 40 CAE flight training devices, bringing the campus total to 86 devices.
- The facility now operates 52 full‑motion simulators and 34 fixed training devices and can run roughly 32,000 training events each year.
- The Denver campus is United’s sole pilot training site and serves about 18,000 current and newly hired pilots who undergo initial qualification and recurrent simulator checks on a roughly nine‑month cycle.
- United has expanded hiring tied to the training hub with more than 1,400 Denver hires last year and plans for about 1,300 additional hires this year to staff instructors, evaluators, and support roles.
- The airline plans to build a second training center on land bought in 2023, with a planned groundbreaking in 2027 and targeted operations by 2030, a developing project that will operate alongside the existing campus.