Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) and Eurowings opened a joint crew training centre at Heltorfer Straße 22 in Düsseldorf in September 2026, close to Eurowings' largest operating base at Düsseldorf Airport. LAT operates the centre on behalf of Eurowings. It covers 2,000 square metres, is designed to train up to 150 participants a day, and is initially dedicated to Eurowings, with capacity built in for other airline customers later.
Eurowings and LAT have announced that from 2027 a virtual reality area will be added to the centre's training equipment, in which cabin crew and pilots will practise selected training scenarios realistically in a virtual environment. An independent visit report describes the planned area as one where training will be done with VR glasses. The VR area is not yet in operation: at opening the centre's training equipment is physical — a cabin mock-up for evacuation exercises, an aircraft door trainer, additional Airbus A320 equipment, an evacuation slide tower for short- and medium-haul aircraft, and an outdoor firefighting training area — and the same report notes there are no pilot simulators on site.
Alongside the new centre, Eurowings is changing its Ground Recurrent Training model to place greater emphasis on competencies needed during flight operations and on scenarios drawn from crews' day-to-day work. Eurowings is the second Lufthansa Group airline to adopt this recurrent training concept.
The reviewed sources do not identify a VR scenario list, technology supplier, headset model, budget or precise date within 2027. LAT separately operates VR training at its Frankfurt and Munich centres, which is a different deployment from the announced Düsseldorf area.
