Breeze Airways flight attendant guide

Big-picture snapshot

Breeze Airways is David Neeleman's startup carrier (launched 2021), headquartered in the Salt Lake City area and built around the Airbus A220 with a "Nice Low Cost Carrier" brand. It is a small operation by FA standards — roughly 600+ flight attendants across about a dozen bases — expanding into international leisure routes, including the Raleigh-Durham base announced in September 2025.

Hiring-window status (as of August 2026): OPEN, rolling. Breeze does not run national hiring waves. It posts base-specific requisitions continuously, and when checked in August 2026 there were 13 live Flight Attendant requisitions on its Greenhouse board, across cities including Fort Myers, Norfolk, Las Vegas, Charleston SC, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Hartford (Windsor Locks CT). Which bases are open changes constantly — pull the board yourself before applying.

The single most important structural fact, and the one forums most often get wrong: Breeze FAs are unionized but have no contract yet. Flight attendants voted 76.3% to join AFA-CWA, certified by the National Mediation Board on May 7, 2024, and first-contract negotiations were still in progress as of the latest sourcing. "Breeze is non-union" has been false since May 2024; "Breeze FAs have a union contract" is also false. Unionized-without-a-contract is the accurate frame — and it means current pay and work rules can still change at management's discretion until a contract lands.

Baseline requirements per posting-language compilations (updated December 2024 — verify verbatim against the live Greenhouse posting for your target base): 21 or older, high-school diploma or equivalent, U.S. citizenship or legal right to work, valid passport before training. No prior-experience requirement appears in posting language — customer-service background helps but is not a stated gate. Vision and hearing tests, a DOT pre-employment drug test, and a TSA fingerprint-based background check apply.

Breeze Airways flight attendant bases

Best-sourced composite list (verify each against Greenhouse before relying on it): Hartford BDL, Charleston CHS, New Orleans MSY, Norfolk ORF, Orlando MCO, Providence PVD, Provo PVU, Tampa TPA, and Fort Myers RSW, plus Raleigh-Durham RDU — announced September 2025 as the 12th crew base for a Q1 2026 opening, tied to international route expansion and projected at 200+ pilot and FA jobs. Boston FA postings were observed on aggregators in early 2026, but Boston is unconfirmed as a crew base — do not count on it.

Two things to internalize about Breeze bases. First, you apply to a specific base, not to Breeze generally — the requisition is the base. Second, the base list churns fast at a growth-stage startup: RDU was announced, not confirmed-open, in our sourcing, and the mix of open cities shifted repeatedly through 2025–2026.

There is no published detail on how base transfers or displacement work at Breeze — ask directly in the interview.

Breeze Airways flight attendant pay & reserve

Breeze is pre-contract, so every number below is reported rather than contractual, and management can change pay unilaterally — in either direction. An AFA first contract would supersede all of it.

• Reported starting pay: $25/hour, rising to $27/hour after six months, then roughly $1.50/hour annual increases, with estimated annual base pay of $35,000–58,000 depending on hours flown. These figures come from a single prep-site compilation dated December 2024 — treat them as dated intel, not official rates.
• Flight-hour model: Breeze pays per flight hour like the rest of the industry. Notably, AFA's organizing platform specifically calls out the lack of boarding pay and "drastically substandard pay for time away from base" — so assume duty-time and layover pay are thin until a contract changes that.
• Benefits (prep-site compilation, December 2024): health/dental/vision, 401(k) after 90 days, travel perks after 30+ days, paid time off, uniform and luggage covered.
• Reserve reality: unknown. Public sourcing on Breeze reserve length and line-holding is very thin. What is known: the A220 network mixes out-and-backs with multi-day trips, and union materials complain about hotel accommodations and time-away-from-base pay — implying meaningful overnight flying. Ask about reserve directly at the interview; nobody can honestly tell you the answer from published sources.

Context on the labor climate: Breeze's pilots (ALPA — a separate union on a separate timeline) have been negotiating since 2023, filed a bad-faith-bargaining lawsuit in January 2026, and picketed at Providence in May 2026. That is not the FA story, but it signals that Breeze first contracts move slowly. Check breezeafa.org's live negotiations-status chart for where FA talks actually stand.

Breeze Airways flight attendant requirements

Posting-language compilations report a minimum age of 21, a high school diploma or equivalent, legal U.S. work authorization, and a valid passport before training for Breeze flight attendants.

• Minimum age: 21 or older, per prep-site compilation of Breeze's posting language — verify the exact wording on the live posting (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).
• Education & work authorization: High school diploma or equivalent, U.S. citizenship or legal right to work, and a valid passport required before training starts (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).
• Experience: No prior-experience requirement was found in the posting language reviewed; a customer-service background helps but isn't a gate — unlike Sun Country, which requires two years. Verify the current posting (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).
• Height / reach: No single height number is published. Postings describe functional limits: reach and remove emergency equipment while maintaining head clearance, lift up to 50 pounds, push/pull beverage carts with approximately 60 pounds of force, and sit and buckle into the A220 jumpseat (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).
• Piercings & jewelry: Documented grooming details include a maximum of two earrings per ear in uniform, nose piercings allowed subject to specific guidelines (confirm those guidelines), and no teeth embellishments (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).
• Tattoos: No official tattoo policy was located. Coverage expectations remain unverified; assume covered-in-uniform only as a conservative precaution and ask at interview (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).
• Other: Vision and hearing tests, a DOT drug test, and a TSA fingerprint background check (source: CabinCrew24, updated 2024-12-31; checked 2026-08).

Requirements change between hiring windows — confirm them on the Breeze Airways careers page before you apply.

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