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United Airlines Begins Construction on New $16M State-of-the-Art Inflight Training Center in Fairfax County
Fairfax County, Virginia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 25, 2024) - United Airlines has invested $16 million to open a new 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fairfax County, Virginia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 25, 2024) - United Airlines has invested $16 million to open a new 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art Inflight Training Center in Fairfax County, Virginia near the airline's hub at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD). Construction is underway on the new center that is anticipated to open in 2025.\nThe center will provide safety and service training for up to 650 United flight attendants every month. The new center will include classrooms, cabin and door trainers, and a mock fuselage to practice the safe evacuations of the aircraft and other emergency management situations.\n\"I want to thank and congratulate United for choosing Fairfax County as the location for this world-class training facility. Not only will this be beneficial to the growing regional flight attendant workforce but for the overall growth of air travel to and from the Greater Washington region,\" said Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay. \"The national and global connectivity that United provides with its more than 250 daily flights from the Washington Dulles International Airport is vital to our local and regional economic vitality.\"\nThe new training center will accommodate the recurrent training needs of United's growing flight attendant workforce. The facility will be the training home for flight attendants supporting United operations at Washington, D.C. area airports, including IAD, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).\n\"At United, we have the industry's best flight attendants, and we're thrilled to be opening a new best-in-class facility in support of their ongoing training right in the backyard of our Washington Dulles hub,\" said John Slater, United's Senior Vice President of Inflight Services. \"This new training center is yet another step in our long-term investment in our people and our commitment to growth here in the Greater Washington region.\"\nAs United grows its flight attendant community over the coming years, this facility is another example of the airline's commitment to provide the latest and most modern training resources and support. The Fairfax County facility follows last year's opening of United's expanded and renovated global inflight training center in Houston...