<p>Breeze Airways, a start-up carrier that hopes to begin flying this spring, is giving up on a plan to hire only college students as flight attendants after the strategy failed to draw enough applicants.</p>
<p>The airline founded by JetBlue creator David Neeleman posted a new listing for flight attendants on Friday without the student requirement.</p>
<p>Breeze originally offered “current and future” online students at Utah Valley University up to $6,000 per year in educational assistance, a monthly salary, company housing, and one paid trip home each month. </p>
<p>Breeze spokesman Gareth Edmondson-Jones said the airline is keeping the program with the college in Orem, Utah, while broadening its search.</p>
<p>“The UVU course wasn’t delivering the numbers of flight attendants we need,” he said.</p>
<p>The Association of Flight Attendants had criticized Breeze’s original plan, saying that the college-student requirement would prevent people from turning the job into a career. </p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>Utah-based Breeze plans to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/andrew-levy-airlines-united-states-dc50109fefc61138c1ee6ed1116b99d6"> carry leisure travelers to smaller cities </a> 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.</p>
