United Airlines Building New Training Center
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United Airlines has invested $16 million to open a new 20,000-square-foot 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.
The 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.
“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.”
The 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).
The Fairfax County facility follows last year’s opening of United’s expanded and renovated global inflight training center in Houston.
Nearly 40 years ago, United began hub operations at Washington Dulles International Airport. Today, United operates nearly 250 daily flights to approximately 100 destinations around the world from Dulles and the airline is set to open a new 435,000-square-foot concourse at Dulles in 2026.
