Pilot Jobs in Germany 2026: Condor, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa City Airlines, Lufthansa Group and 3 More With German Bases

Our jobs board tracks 5 airlines based in Germany, Condor, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa City Airlines and Lufthansa Group, and 3 airlines based elsewhere whose records name German bases: easyJet, SunExpress and TUI Airline (TUI Airways, TUI fly). At the last check 4 of the 5 German airlines had the First Officer seat open and 3 the Captain seat; none of the airlines from elsewhere had the First Officer seat open. Condor and Lufthansa Group ask for German, and Lufthansa City Airlines names only English; at Discover Airlines and Eurowings it is not required, or the rule is unclear. None of the 8 says it sponsors a visa. This page lists each one with its German bases, seats, language, license and minimum, then the routes from zero hours and the traps in a German pilot vacancy: hours that count only above a given weight or on large airplanes, the aptitude test each airline accepts, the school-leaving certificate, the right to work you must already hold and who pays for the rating. How to get the license itself, from the Class 1 medical to the exams at the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA), Germany’s federal aviation office, is on the how to become an airline pilot in Germany page.

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The German airlines (5)

Every airline on our board based in Germany, by its status at the last check. The license and right-to-work columns are its record’s own summary; the hours are the published minimum, in the airline’s own measure; the language is what its published requirements ask beyond English.

Read the Lufthansa Group with care: on our board “Lufthansa Group” is Deutsche Lufthansa, the mainline airline, whose only door for new pilots is the European Flight Academy, and the Group’s other airlines are separate employers with requirements of their own, so a vacancy at one of them is not a Lufthansa vacancy (checked 12 October 2026); Discover Airlines is the Group’s leisure airline (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines, by its Captain FAQ, may recognize selection stages passed for Eurowings Germany, Eurowings Ltd. or Discover within the last 24 months (checked 8 November 2026).

Read the bases with their source: Condor’s A320-family postings, with and without a type rating, named Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich and Hamburg, by availability, and its A330 postings Frankfurt (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines allocates the type and the home base after a successful selection, and where and when the A220 will fly from each base is among the points we could not confirm (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings’ vacancies named Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart for its First Officers, and Prague, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca and four Polish bases, Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and Wroclaw, for Eurowings Europe’s Captains and fast-track First Officers (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings’ record also lists Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Salzburg and Stockholm among its bases, where its portal listed no vacancy (checked 8 November 2026); whether a Lufthansa cadet chooses Frankfurt or Munich, or is assigned one, is among the points we could not confirm (checked 12 October 2026). Each airline’s terms are set out line by line on its requirements page: Condor, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa City Airlines and Lufthansa Group.

Airlines from elsewhere with German bases (3)

These airlines are based outside Germany but name German bases in their records, quoted here as recorded. Their seats are counted across their whole network, so an open seat is not necessarily an open seat in Germany.

Read the base lists with care: SunExpress’ record has Frankfurt and Düsseldorf among its bases and asks for the right to work for its Turkish or German operator, though the undated postings that job boards relayed were for Antalya (checked 30 October 2026); TUI takes one application per cycle, to one of its airlines, Germany’s among them, and the 2026 First Officer postings in its record were at its UK, Belgian, Dutch and Swedish airlines (checked 8 November 2026); easyJet’s careers pages publish base countries only, Germany among them, so its record names no German base airport (checked 12 October 2026).

Left out, because their base lists name no German base: Ryanair, listed under Ireland, which publishes no full pilot base list; press reports of April 2026 that it would close its Berlin Brandenburg base from 24 October 2026 are among the points we could not confirm on its own pages (checked 12 October 2026); Etihad, whose roadshows for rated and non-rated A320-family Captains and First Officers job boards relayed in Munich on 13 October and Frankfurt on 15 October 2026, events rather than bases (checked 20 October 2026). Other airlines based in Germany are not on our board, so read their own careers pages; the Germany country page sets the German airlines beside the route to the license.

Who is hiring, seat by seat

First Officer seat open at the last check: Condor, Discover Airlines, Eurowings and Lufthansa City Airlines. Captain seat open: Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa City Airlines and easyJet. Each airline as its record sums it up, with the date of the check; for the airlines from elsewhere the summary is for the whole network:

• Condor F/O: Recruiting Capt: Unconfirmed
  At the last check, on 8 November 2026, Condor’s application portal listed four First Officer postings, for the A320 family with and without an A320 type rating and for the A330, with and without Airbus wide-body experience, and its cadet program was taking applications until 16 November 2026. No Captain posting was listed. (checked 8 November 2026) — careers page
• Discover Airlines F/O: Recruiting Capt: Recruiting
  At the last check, on 8 November 2026, Discover Airlines’ career portal on career.aero listed First Officer vacancies for the A320 and the A330, both based in Frankfurt, Captain vacancies for the A320 and the A330, for Frankfurt and Munich, and an A320 Captain vacancy for type-rating instructors and examiners at Frankfurt. We read the A320 Captain vacancy in full; the First Officer vacancies we saw only in the list. (checked 8 November 2026) — careers page
• Eurowings F/O: Recruiting Capt: Recruiting
  At the last check, on 8 November 2026, Eurowings’ career portal listed three A320-family vacancies, each for type-rated and non-type-rated pilots: First Officers for Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart, and, under Eurowings Europe’s WINGS Pattern models, Captains and a fast-track upgrade for experienced First Officers, for Prague, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and Wroclaw. The fast track asks for 4,000 hours on multi-pilot aircraft above 5.7 tonnes. (checked 8 November 2026) — careers page
• Lufthansa City Airlines F/O: Recruiting Capt: Recruiting
  At the last check, on 8 November 2026, the Lufthansa Group’s career portal listed Lufthansa City Airlines’ First Officer A220 vacancy, its Captain A220/A320 vacancy for type-rated and non-type-rated pilots and its Fast Track Upgrade to Command A320, each for Munich and Frankfurt, and City Airlines’ own career center on career.aero listed the same three. We read all three in full, on 30 October and again on 8 November 2026. Vacancies close without notice, so check the posting before you apply. (checked 8 November 2026) — careers page
• Lufthansa Group F/O: Cadet route only Capt: Not offered
  Deutsche Lufthansa itself advertised no cockpit vacancy on the Group portal on 25 August 2026: the ten pilot vacancies there belonged to other Group airlines, such as SWISS, Edelweiss, Lufthansa City Airlines and Air Dolomiti. The only way in under the Lufthansa name is the European Flight Academy, which warns of a wait because it has more applicants than places. A search on 12 October 2026 found no Deutsche Lufthansa direct-entry vacancy. (checked 12 October 2026) — careers page
• easyJet F/O: Not recruiting Capt: Recruiting
  easyJet was recruiting Captains only on 25 August 2026: A320-rated and non-type-rated Captains at London Gatwick, and A320-rated Captains in Marrakesh on a two-year contract through an agency rather than with easyJet itself. Its own system showed no First Officer or cadet vacancy. On 12 October 2026 job boards still relayed its Captain listings, and no First Officer or cadet vacancy was found. (checked 12 October 2026) — careers page · Study guide (PDF, €4.99)
• SunExpress F/O: Unconfirmed Capt: Unconfirmed
  Own HR portal publishes cockpit criteria: ATPL(A), Part-MED Class 1, Captains under 60 (rated) or 58 (non-rated) and non-rated First Officers under 40 at ground-school start; English and German useful (checked 30 October 2026) — careers page
• TUI Airline (TUI Airways, TUI fly) F/O: Not recruiting Capt: Not offered
  TUI’s careers site listed no pilot vacancy at the last check, on 8 November 2026, as on 18 October 2026. In 2026 it had posted First Officer vacancies at its UK, Belgian, Dutch and Swedish airlines, type-rated and non-type-rated, the non-rated ones from 500 hours or 100 route sectors on multi-pilot aircraft, and low-hour vacancies in Belgium and the Netherlands; the UK, Belgian and Dutch postings were gone and the Swedish ones closed on 31 July 2026. TUI runs no MPL cadet intake in 2026 and publishes no direct-entry Captain route. (checked 8 November 2026) — careers page

For Captains in Germany: Lufthansa City Airlines’ Captain A220/A320 vacancy, for type-rated and non-type-rated pilots, asks for 5,000 hours on CS-25 aircraft with 1,000 as pilot in command, and its fast track to command 4,500 hours on CS-25 aircraft from experienced First Officers (checked 8 November 2026); Discover Airlines’ A320 Captain vacancy asks for 2,500 hours as pilot in command on CS-25 aircraft above 20 tonnes, and its cockpit page, as search results showed it on 30 October 2026, 5,000 hours in command on aircraft above 5.7 tonnes for the A330 (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings Europe’s Captain vacancy takes type-rated and non-type-rated pilots, and its fast-track upgrade takes First Officers with 4,000 hours on multi-pilot aircraft above 5.7 tonnes (checked 8 November 2026); whether Condor recruits Captains from outside is among the points we could not confirm: its careers page, as search results showed it on 17 October 2026, says it regularly seeks Captains, but we found no Captain posting, and its portal listed none (checked 8 November 2026); Deutsche Lufthansa itself offered no direct-entry Captain vacancy on 25 August 2026 (checked 12 October 2026); SunExpress’ HR portal, as search results showed it, describes type-rated and non-type-rated Captains, under 60 and under 58 at the start of the ground course (checked 30 October 2026); TUI publishes no direct-entry Captain route (checked 8 November 2026); easyJet’s Captain vacancies at its last check were at London Gatwick, for UK-licensed Captains, and in Marrakesh, on a two-year contract through an agency rather than with easyJet, none in Germany (checked 12 October 2026). Every airline that takes Captains from outside is on the direct entry Captain jobs page.

German, English and the license

Everywhere in the EASA system a pilot who uses the radio needs a language proficiency endorsement at ICAO Level 4 or above, in English or in the language used on the radio (FCL.055, step 3 of the Europe page), and the LBA has set the ATPL theory exams only in English since 1 August 2022 (step 3 of the Germany country page), but the airlines decide what else they ask: Lufthansa wants German at C1 or above if it is not your first language, by the Lufthansa column of its training school’s airline-requirements table (checked 12 October 2026); Lufthansa’s school table puts Eurowings GmbH (EWG) at B2 or above, and lists German as optional at Lufthansa City Airlines and as preferred, at B2, at Discover (checked 12 October 2026); Condor’s First Officer postings ask for fluent German and English, written and spoken, at Level 4 (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines’ three vacancies, read on 30 October and 8 November 2026, ask for English at ICAO Level 4 or higher and do not mention German (checked 8 November 2026); Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy asks for English at ICAO Level 4 or higher and prefers German, at B2 or above from non-native speakers, proven at a recognized center such as the Goethe-Institut (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings Europe’s fast-track posting asks for English at ICAO Level 4 or higher and names no other language, while Eurowings, as search results showed its pages on 30 October 2026, calls German useful (checked 8 November 2026). Of the airlines from elsewhere, SunExpress asks for good English and calls German useful and Turkish helpful (checked 30 October 2026); TUI holds every assessment and interview in English, and its 2026 postings asked for ICAO Level 4 (checked 8 November 2026); easyJet asks for ICAO English at Level 4 (checked 12 October 2026). Condor’s careers page says, in search results, that its portal and postings are in German only, though you can apply in English. Where an airline’s own vacancy and a group school’s table differ, the vacancy is what you apply to, so ask the airline which applies to you. A C1 or B2 is on the European (CEFR) scale of general language certificates, a Level 4 on the ICAO scale of the license endorsement, so check which one a posting names before you book a test.

A license issued by any EASA state is valid in Germany without conversion (step 6 of the Germany country page), yet an airline may say which license it takes: Lufthansa City Airlines asks its First Officers for an EASA CPL with an instrument rating, ATPL theory credit and MCC, or an MPL with phase 4 completed, and its Captains for an EASA ATPL (checked 8 November 2026); Condor takes an EASA ATPL, a CPL with an instrument rating and the ATPL theory, or an MPL (checked 8 November 2026); Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy asks for an EASA ATPL with a multi-engine instrument rating (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings Europe’s fast-track posting asks for an EASA ATPL and appreciates a German or Austrian one (checked 8 November 2026); TUI wants the license held before you apply and issued for the country of the airline you apply to (checked 8 November 2026); SunExpress’ HR portal, as search results showed it, asks for an ATPL (checked 30 October 2026). A license from outside the EASA system is converted first, through the authority of the state where you live or want to work; the same step of the Germany country page sets out what the LBA credits, and FAA vs EASA covers the FAA conversion.

Routes from zero hours

The cadet routes the German airlines’ records name, worded as recorded. The First Officer status is a different thing: a scheme can be open while direct entry is shut, and the other way round.

• Condor Intake: Open at last check
  Condor Ab Initio Program (CAP): MPL(A) with the A320 type rating at TFC Flight Training in Essen, about 24 months; applications open until 16 November 2026 for the June 2027 course (checked 8 November 2026)
• Discover Airlines Intake: Not stated
  Ab-initio via European Flight Academy (checked 8 November 2026)
• Eurowings Intake: Not stated
  Ab-initio via European Flight Academy (checked 8 November 2026)
• Lufthansa Group Intake: Open at last check
  Cadet / ab-initio - European Flight Academy ATPL program (Lufthansa Group flight school); applications were open on 25 Aug 2026, with a published waiting time (checked 12 October 2026)

Lufthansa’s school, the European Flight Academy, asks for a DLR test certificate before you apply, a test you book and pay for yourself and sit in Hamburg, Milan or Zurich, and its German program cost EUR 130,000, self-funded, by its costs page (checked 12 October 2026); Condor’s Ab Initio Program trains cadets to an MPL with the A320 type rating at TFC Flight Training in Essen; its posting took applications until 16 November 2026, from applicants with a German residence and work permit, who pay a share of the training cost (checked 8 November 2026); Condor’s first step is not the DLR test: you book and pay for interpersonal’s Basic Qualification ip Ab-Initio in Hamburg, and may apply only once you have passed it (checked 8 November 2026). A German school appears in another airline’s record too: Luxair’s Pilot Cadet Program, which pre-finances flight-school costs up to €80,000, trains at schools in Mönchengladbach and near Barcelona, the schools as search results gave them, and had no intake open on 28 October 2026 (checked 28 October 2026). A school that names an airline as a partner is not a cadetship: ask who selects you, who pays and what is promised. The aptitude tests, the schools, the university degrees with the license and the funding, BAföG among it, are on the Germany country page, and who pays on each scheme on the cadet programs page.

How to read a German pilot vacancy

• Hours with a qualifier. Lufthansa City Airlines counts its First Officers’ 500 hours on CS-25 aircraft, EASA’s large-airplane standard, and its Captains’ 5,000 on CS-25 aircraft, 1,000 of them as pilot in command (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings Europe’s fast-track upgrade counts 4,000 hours and 350 landings on multi-pilot aircraft above 5.7 tonnes, with line flying in the last 24 months (checked 8 November 2026); Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy counts 2,500 hours as pilot in command on CS-25 aircraft above 20 tonnes, and its cockpit page, as search results showed it on 30 October 2026, set its A330 First Officers 1,500 hours on aircraft above 5.7 tonnes (checked 8 November 2026); Condor’s A320-family posting for pilots without a type rating sets no hours minimum but puts A320-rated applicants first, and its non-rated A330 posting asks for 1,000 hours on Airbus types from the A320 to the A380 or 1,500 hours on multi-crew jets above 20 tonnes (checked 8 November 2026); TUI’s non-rated postings of 2026 counted 500 hours or 100 route sectors on multi-pilot aircraft (checked 8 November 2026). Hours on light single-pilot airplanes do not meet a figure counted on CS-25 airplanes or above a given weight. Every airline’s minimum is on the hours requirements page.
• The aptitude test each airline accepts. The European Flight Academy, Lufthansa’s school, asks for a DLR test certificate before you apply (checked 12 October 2026); Condor’s cadet program takes interpersonal’s Basic Qualification instead, and a DLR certificate does not count (checked 8 November 2026); Condor’s A320-family posting for pilots without a rating recognizes interpersonal’s Basic Qualification certificates (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines runs its selection in three steps through interpersonal and may recognize Lufthansa Group selection procedures (checked 8 November 2026). A certificate that one airline accepts may not count at another, so ask which test before you book and pay for one; the Library’s pilot aptitude tests explains what they measure.
• The school-leaving certificate, and your record. Lufthansa’s column of its school’s table asks for the Allgemeine Hochschulreife, the general university entrance qualification, where the European Flight Academy also takes other school-leaving certificates (checked 12 October 2026); Condor’s First Officer postings ask for a school-leaving qualification at university entrance level, the Fachhochschulreife or Hochschulreife (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines’ vacancies ask for a higher education entrance qualification or an equivalent, the Abitur or the Fachhochschulreife for its Captains (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa’s table sets a height of 165 to 198 cm, with exceptions at the aero-medical examiner’s decision (checked 12 October 2026); Condor’s A330 posting for pilots without a rating, and its cadet program, a height of 1.58 to 1.98 m, and its First Officer postings a Class 1 with a clear drug test (checked 8 November 2026); Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy a German university or technical-college entrance qualification, or an equivalent (checked 8 November 2026). Germany also checks every pilot’s background: the reliability check of the Aviation Security Act (Zuverlässigkeitsüberprüfung) covers pilots and student pilots, and you may not take up the work until it is complete (step 2 of the Germany country page).
• The right to work is yours to bring. None of the 8 airlines here says it sponsors a visa. Lufthansa’s one route, the European Flight Academy, asks for EU, Swiss or EFTA citizenship, and whether it also takes holders of an unlimited residence and work permit is among the points we could not confirm (checked 12 October 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines asks for EU citizenship or an unrestricted residence and work permit, and a passport with unlimited validity (checked 8 November 2026); Condor for a residence and work permit for Germany and an unrestricted passport (checked 8 November 2026); Discover, by its cockpit page as search results showed it on 30 October 2026, for a residence and work permit for Germany, with meetings in Germany during recruitment, and by its A320 Captain vacancy for an EU passport or one with no stricter entry restrictions (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings Europe’s fast-track posting for EU citizenship, or a residence and work permit for the base country, and for the Polish and Spanish bases residence there or the willingness to take it up (checked 8 November 2026); SunExpress for the right to work for its Turkish or German operator (checked 30 October 2026); TUI for the unrestricted right to live and work in the country of the airline you join, and an EU passport for its European airlines (checked 8 November 2026). What each European airline asks of a pilot from outside the EU is on the pilot jobs in Europe for non-EU citizens page.
• Who pays for the rating. Eurowings, as search results showed its vacancies on 30 October 2026, provides the A320 rating to First Officers without one (checked 8 November 2026); who pays for a non-rated First Officer’s rating at Condor, and any bond, is among the points we could not confirm (checked 8 November 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines trains Captains without a rating as training places allow, and who pays for a non-rated pilot’s rating, and any bond, is among the points we could not confirm (checked 8 November 2026); the European Flight Academy’s course does not include the type rating, and who pays for the first one, and on what bond, is among the points we could not confirm for Lufthansa (checked 12 October 2026); Discover Airlines states a type rating as preferred, not as required (checked 8 November 2026); TUI trains a non-rated pilot’s full type rating in-house, and who pays for it, and any bond, is among the points we could not confirm (checked 8 November 2026). Ask who pays, and what a bond costs you if you leave, before you sign.
• Standby, and where you live. Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy wants you able to reach your home base within 90 minutes on standby, where its cockpit page, as search results showed it on 30 October 2026, said 60 (checked 8 November 2026); TUI’s pilot FAQ sets standby at 60 minutes from most of its bases (checked 8 November 2026). Ask which base, and which company the contract is with, before you sign.
• Apply through the official channel. Lufthansa City Airlines takes applications on the Lufthansa Group career portal or its own career center on career.aero; Condor on its application portal, career.aero/condor; Discover Airlines on its career.aero portal; Eurowings on its own career.aero portal; the European Flight Academy online, with your DLR certificate. A copy of an old posting on a job board is not an open vacancy.

The other airlines of the region, from Ireland to Turkey, are on the pilot jobs in Europe page, and the doors at low hours on the low-hour pilot jobs page.

For the selection, the interview guides for Condor, Eurowings, Lufthansa Group and easyJet, the complete interview guide, and the Library’s airline pilot recruitment and selection, pilot aptitude tests and airline simulator assessment articles.

Common questions

Which airlines are hiring pilots in Germany? At the last check the First Officer seat was open at Condor, Discover Airlines, Eurowings and Lufthansa City Airlines and the Captain seat at Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa City Airlines and easyJet; at Lufthansa Group, SunExpress and TUI Airline neither seat was recruiting or holding a pool. For the airlines based outside Germany, these are their seats across the whole network, not necessarily in Germany. The tables on this page give the date each airline was checked; confirm the vacancy on the airline’s own careers page before applying.

Is Lufthansa hiring pilots? Deutsche Lufthansa itself advertised no cockpit vacancy on the Group portal on 25 August 2026, and a search on 12 October 2026 found no direct-entry vacancy, so its only door is the European Flight Academy, which warns of a wait (checked 12 October 2026); Lufthansa City Airlines, a Group airline, listed its First Officer A220, Captain A220/A320 and fast-track command vacancies for Munich and Frankfurt (checked 8 November 2026); Discover Airlines’ career portal listed First Officer vacancies for the A320 and the A330 at Frankfurt, and Captain vacancies for both types at Frankfurt and Munich (checked 8 November 2026); Eurowings’ career portal listed A320-family First Officer vacancies for Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart, and Eurowings Europe Captain and fast-track vacancies for Prague, Barcelona, Palma and four Polish bases, each for rated and non-rated pilots (checked 8 November 2026). Each Group airline recruits on its own, so check its careers page for the current vacancy.

Do you need to speak German to fly for an airline in Germany? Lufthansa wants German at C1 or above if it is not your first language, by the Lufthansa column of its training school’s airline-requirements table; Lufthansa’s school table puts Eurowings GmbH (EWG) at B2 or above, and lists German as optional at Lufthansa City Airlines and as preferred, at B2, at Discover; Condor’s First Officer postings ask for fluent German and English, written and spoken, at Level 4; Lufthansa City Airlines’ three vacancies, read on 30 October and 8 November 2026, ask for English at ICAO Level 4 or higher and do not mention German; Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy asks for English at ICAO Level 4 or higher and prefers German, at B2 or above from non-native speakers, proven at a recognized center such as the Goethe-Institut; Eurowings Europe’s fast-track posting asks for English at ICAO Level 4 or higher and names no other language, while Eurowings, as search results showed its pages on 30 October 2026, calls German useful. Of the airlines from elsewhere with German bases, SunExpress asks for good English and calls German useful and Turkish helpful; TUI holds every assessment and interview in English, and its 2026 postings asked for ICAO Level 4; easyJet asks for ICAO English at Level 4. The license itself needs a language proficiency endorsement at ICAO Level 4 or above, in English or the language used on the radio (FCL.055), and the LBA’s ATPL theory exams are in English only.

Do you need a German license to fly for an airline in Germany? Not by law: a license issued by any EASA state is valid in Germany without conversion. An airline may still say which license it takes: Lufthansa City Airlines asks its First Officers for an EASA CPL with an instrument rating, ATPL theory credit and MCC, or an MPL with phase 4 completed, and its Captains for an EASA ATPL; Condor takes an EASA ATPL, a CPL with an instrument rating and the ATPL theory, or an MPL; Discover’s A320 Captain vacancy asks for an EASA ATPL with a multi-engine instrument rating; Eurowings Europe’s fast-track posting asks for an EASA ATPL and appreciates a German or Austrian one; TUI wants the license held before you apply and issued for the country of the airline you apply to; SunExpress’ HR portal, as search results showed it, asks for an ATPL. A license from outside the EASA system must be converted first.

Can you get a pilot job in Germany without an EU passport? None of the 8 says it sponsors a visa. Lufthansa’s one route, the European Flight Academy, asks for EU, Swiss or EFTA citizenship, and whether it also takes holders of an unlimited residence and work permit is among the points we could not confirm; Lufthansa City Airlines asks for EU citizenship or an unrestricted residence and work permit, and a passport with unlimited validity; Condor for a residence and work permit for Germany and an unrestricted passport; Discover, by its cockpit page as search results showed it on 30 October 2026, for a residence and work permit for Germany, with meetings in Germany during recruitment, and by its A320 Captain vacancy for an EU passport or one with no stricter entry restrictions; Eurowings Europe’s fast-track posting for EU citizenship, or a residence and work permit for the base country, and for the Polish and Spanish bases residence there or the willingness to take it up; SunExpress for the right to work for its Turkish or German operator; TUI for the unrestricted right to live and work in the country of the airline you join, and an EU passport for its European airlines. Where an airline asks for a right to live and work rather than a nationality, a pilot from outside the EU who already holds that right may apply; ask the airline before you rule yourself in or out.