The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) and Incheon Airport succeeded in attracting about 15 million US Dollars (about 17 billion Korean Won) of investment from the US Lockheed Martin Corporation to build and operate a Flight Simulation Training Center at the Human Resource Development Center in the Airport.

According to the contract, the Airport will complete the building of the training center with a gross area of 576m2 by the end of this year and Lockheed Martin will in succession install related equipment including a flight simulation training facility and together with the US company Boeing, will be in charge of training pilots from low-cost airline companies for 10 years starting from 2013.

So far, while large airline companies conduct training with their own facilities, national low-cost airlines that cannot afford an expensive training facility have to go abroad for training. After taking this situation into consideration, the MLTM and Incheon Airport have pushed forward an aviation training center development project on the 6,200m2 site of the Human Resource Development Center in the Airport, hoping that the training facility will become a central institution for aviation safety training in Korea.

The Airport's official said, “By diverting the demand in pilot training to a domestic institution, we expect to bring about a saving of more than 60 billion Korean Won in the upcoming 10 years by reducing airfares and living expenses.”