On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines opened its $50 million flight operations training facility in Salt Lake City (SLC). Spanning 50,000 square feet, the cutting-edge facility is the airline’s first outside Atlanta.
Speaking on the significance of the launch, Ed Bastian, CEO at Delta, said:
“We have 5,000 employees here in the region, and when you talk about our pilots, we have the very best pilots. We want to make sure we have the very best tools and technology and capability at their fingertips here. But all the other employees and families that we have here, it’s a statement to them, as well, in terms of seeing this great facility go up.”
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KSL.com reported that the facility currently has two simulators operational, “equipped with [both] an A350 and A320 simulator, with a B737 simulator set to join the mix in the spring.” It also has space onsite for six additional Full Motion Simulators. Complementing these, are seven classrooms for pilots in training and ten pilot briefing rooms.
The airline anticipates over 1,000 training events will be held at the facility every month as Delta pilots are recertified on an aircraft every nine months. This training facility adds to Delta’s existing 33 simulators at the airline’s HQ in Atlanta.
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