American Airlines’ $250 million headquarters-hotel complex will open in early 2023

A $250 million employee hotel and conference center that American Airlines started building before the COVID-19 pandemic will finally open in the first quarter of 2023. The “hospitality complex” is the final piece of the $1 billion, 300-acre corporate headquarters campus in Fort Worth that American announced in 2015 and that will feature the airline’s integrated operations center and its administrative offices. “Each year, thousands of team members from across the operation come to campus to learn — spanning from new hire and recurrent training to team members in new roles,” American said in a memo to workers Wednesday. “We’re hoping to simplify team members’ visiting experience by building a modern hospitality complex at the heart of our campus. A place where visiting team members can lodge, eat, socialize and work out.”

The hospitality complex replaces the American Airlines flight attendant hotel that had stood at the same site since the 1960s. The new campus will have many of the same training and educational functions but has been expanded to serve all of the company’s 130,000 employees. The building will be known officially as Skyview 6. The corporate administrative offices are housed in the 355,000-square-foot Skyview 8 building on the south side of the campus. The building will feature 600 rooms where employees of American and its wholly owned regional carriers will stay when training on campus. There will be training facilities for crew members, such as the thousands of pilots and flight attendants American hires and trains every year. The building will also have a 10,000-square-foot ballroom that will double as a conference center and host events such as the company’s annual “State of the Airline” meeting.