Overview
- United announced Thursday that it completed phase one of its Denver Flight Training Center expansion by installing 40 new CAE training devices.
- The Central Park campus now houses 86 devices in total, including 52 full-motion simulators and 34 fixed training units, giving the center capacity to train as many as 860 pilots per day.
- The airline has spent roughly $370 million on the campus since 2016 and invested more than $145 million in the recent phase, creating several hundred new jobs at the facility.
- CAE remains United’s primary training-technology partner and United pilots use the Denver center for initial qualification and recurrent simulator training every nine months.
- United bought land near Denver International Airport in 2023, secured rezoning in July 2026, and expects to break ground on a second training site in 2027 with operations targeted by 2030 to sustain long-term hiring and fleet growth.