Frontier Airlines Opens New Training Facility

Frontier Airlines celebrated the opening of its new 11,000-square-foot flight attendant recurrent training center in Orlando, Florida, and welcomes the recent approval by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority of its plans to build a 35,000-square-foot hangar at Orlando International Airport. The $10-million maintenance hangar will include indoor parking for Frontier’s largest aircraft, the Airbus A321, and an outdoor auxiliary pad for two additional Airbus A320 family aircraft.

The center will provide training for both flight attendantsand customer service team members. The facility features three interactiveclassrooms, emergency/medical workshop areas and a specially equipped area forconducting emergency evacuation drills and procedures. The center will bestaffed with full-time instructors and training support team members.

“The new training center opening today in Orlando will hostapproximately 1,000 flight attendants for recurrent training in 2020,” saidStephen Howell, Senior Director of In-Flight for Frontier Airlines.

Construction on the new hangar is planned to begin in 2020and will take a year and a half to complete. Frontier plans to utilize the newfacility for daily maintenance operations and more extensive work, includingengine and landing gear changes. The company expects the facility to createmore than 45 new jobs in Orlando with an average salary of $75,000 to supportits operations, doubling its current maintenance workforce at the airport.

“The new hangar willbe a tremendously beneficial operations resource for our maintenance teammembers and will create new job opportunities for area residents said TrevorStedke, Senior Vice President of Operations for Frontier Airlines.