Few weeks ago, David Neeleman's Breeze Airways created a controversy when it rolled out its flight attendant hiring plan in an aim to launch the carrier later in the year.
The upcoming carrier offered “current and future” online students at Utah Valley University (UVU) up to $6,000 per year in educational assistance, a monthly salary, company housing, and one paid trip home each month.
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However, the move came under the criticism of the 'Association of Flight Attendants' , that said, the college-student requirement would prevent people from turning the job into a career.
“It attempted to take us back more than 60 years,” union President Sara Nelson said Friday. She said she is still concerned about the pay and shifting costs to workers.
Now it seems, UVU plan could not fulfill the airline's aspirations to get enough of candidates from the university, hence Breeze Airways posted a new job opening for flight attendants on Friday without the student requirement.
Utah-based Breeze plans to carry leisure travelers to smaller cities that have been overlooked or abandoned by larger airlines. The airline hasn’t said which cities it will serve, but Neeleman has hinted it will start in the Southeast, including Florida.
Only last month, the airline, which currently owns two Embraer ERJ-190s and two Embraer ERJ-195 jets, has reportedly ordered 20 Airbus A220-300 jets in addition to the existing order consisting of 60 aircraft of this type.
