$135 million.. “Emirates Airlines” establishes a new pilot training center

Emirates Airlines intends to invest $135 million to establish a pilot training center for new Airbus and Boeing aircraft.

The center will include 6 simulators for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, which the company will deliver in the coming years.

The new center will increase the capacity of Emirates Airlines to train pilots by 54% annually, as the number of flight simulators owned by the company will increase to 17 devices.

The new Emirates Airline center will start training the first batch of pilots who will fly the Airbus A350 by June 2024, in preparation for the start of receiving this type of aircraft later.

Emirates Airlines is a subsidiary of the Emirates Group and the official carrier in the Emirate of Dubai.

• new building

The new building will be located next to the existing Emirates Airlines training facilities in Dubai, providing full and close integration with all other pilot training centers.

Trainee pilots will also benefit from the ability to set up and configure the cockpit environment using dedicated hardware.

This is  Part of the training unit and upload the data to the fully functional simulator, before starting their respective training session.

• Training ability 

With the addition of the new building to the existing training facilities of "Emirates Airlines" in Dubai, the airline will expand its capacity to train pilots by 54% annually.

Emirates pilots will have greater flexibility to hone their flying skills, through 17 fully functional simulated flying devices that provide a capacity of more than 130,000 hours of training annually in all facilities.

Training and development programmers 

In addition to modern training facilities for the cockpit crew, Emirates Airlines provides a range of world-class training and development programs at its facilities in Dubai.