United completes phase one expansion of world's largest pilot training facility

United and CAE have completed phase one of the expansion of United’s Flight Training Center in Denver, the airline’s pilot-training hub. The project added 40 new CAE training devices since 2022—52 full-motion flight simulators and 34 fixed devices in total, across eight buildings. The updated campus now includes nearly 700,000 square feet of training space, equivalent to 12 football fields, and can run more than 32,000 training events annually while training up to 860 pilots per day. The facility operates 24 hours a day, 362 days a year. United invested more than $145 million, hired 300+ employees after a 2024 building opening, and expects the next expansion phase to start with groundbreaking in 2027.