Alaska Airlines purchases new training facility

Alaska Airlines has confirmed the purchase of a new $85.75 million training facility, with the intention to “enhance the training experience for flight attendants, pilots, customer service agents and more, as well as centralise operations into one facility”. Alaska already houses nine full-motion flight simulators in the facility and has plans to add a tenth in the next few years. In addition to simulators, the new space will include a mock aircraft for inflight simulations, classrooms, an auditorium, a production studio and significant office space. ""Our remarkable operations team members will, for the first time in our history, all come together and train under one roof,"" said Constance von Muehlen, chief operating officer at Alaska Airlines. ""We're excited to build on Alaska Airlines' culture of safety, performance and care in this purposefully-designed space worthy of our frontline team's contributions to every guest and every flight."" Alaska Airlines has purchased the 19-acre property from Unico Properties, which includes the 600,000-square-foot facility that Boeing purposefully built to house an aviation training facility. Alaska plans to invest an additional $100 million to renovate the space. While pilots already train on the campus using the existing simulators, other employee groups will begin moving into the facility following renovations towards the end of 2025.