How to Apply to Eurowings

9 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 1 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Apply through careers.eurowings.com but submit on www.career.aero/eurowings — that is the actual ATS and where your candidate profile lives.
  • Eurowings Discover became Discover Airlines in September 2024; if you want long-haul A330 flying, apply to Discover Airlines, not Eurowings.
  • Cabin crew pay and rotations are visibly less generous than Lufthansa mainline equivalents — go in with that priced into your decision.
  • German at B2+ is the realistic floor for almost every role; English-only candidates should target IT and select Eurowings Digital roles rather than mainline corporate or any flight-deck/cabin path.
  • UFO and Vereinigung Cockpit are active and have struck Lufthansa Group operations in 2024–2025; understand the Tariffvertrag landscape before interview day.
  • Cabin-crew hiring concentrates between November and March ahead of summer fleet expansion — apply early in that window with a complete profile.
  • Treat the German Lebenslauf and Anschreiben conventions seriously; absence of either still reads as low-effort across every Lufthansa Group subsidiary.

About Eurowings

Eurowings is the Düsseldorf-headquartered low-cost arm of the Lufthansa Group, operating a roughly 100-aircraft Airbus A319/A320/A320neo fleet across short- and medium-haul European point-to-point and tourism routes. With approximately 3,500 employees spanning cockpit, cabin, technical, ground operations, and corporate functions, Eurowings sits in a deliberately distinct strategic lane from Lufthansa mainline: it is the group's price-competitive intra-European operator, designed to defend home-market traffic against Ryanair, easyJet, and Wizz Air while feeding leisure demand from German-speaking source markets to Mediterranean, Canary Island, and North African destinations. The brand has gone through significant structural change in the past three years that candidates must understand. Until September 2024, Eurowings Discover operated as a sister long-haul leisure brand under the Eurowings umbrella, flying Airbus A330s to the Caribbean, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. In autumn 2024 that operation was rebranded as Discover Airlines and now runs as a separate Lufthansa Group AOC with its own hiring pipeline. If you are interested in long-haul widebody flying, you should apply to Discover Airlines, not Eurowings; the two companies share corporate parentage but no longer share recruitment, rosters, or seniority lists. Eurowings' core operating bases are Düsseldorf (its largest hub and headquarters), Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna (codeshare-heavy footprint with Austrian Airlines), Palma de Mallorca, and Prague. Düsseldorf and Cologne dominate the corporate/IT footprint; cockpit and cabin crew are based at the operating airports they fly from. The fleet renewal program continues through 2026 with steady A320neo deliveries, which historically correlates with cabin crew hiring waves between January and March each year ahead of the summer schedule. The wider Lufthansa Group context matters. Eurowings sits inside the same group as Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, SWISS, Austrian, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Technik, ITA Airways (since 2025), and Discover Airlines. That ecosystem unlocks internal mobility for tenured staff, but it also means each subsidiary maintains a separate Tariffvertrag (collective bargaining agreement), separate seniority list, and meaningfully different pay scales. Cabin crew at Eurowings earn substantially less than Lufthansa mainline counterparts at equivalent seniority — a fact you should price into your decision rather than discover after onboarding. The same applies to first officers: Eurowings is widely used by aspiring pilots as an entry point into the group, with the understanding that internal transfers to Lufthansa or SWISS are competitive and not guaranteed.

Application Process

  1. 1
    Start at careers

    Start at careers.eurowings.com and select your track (Cockpit Crew, Cabin Crew, Corporate Careers, Technik, IT, Young Talents, Wings Handling, Ops Careers, or Eurowings Holidays); each track routes you to a category-filtered list on www.career.aero/eurowings, which is the actual ATS where you create your profile and submit applications.

  2. 2
    Create a single career

    Create a single career.aero account and complete the master profile carefully — career.aero stores documents per applicant, so updating your CV, licences, and certificates once means they are reusable across every Eurowings posting and avoids re-uploading inconsistencies that recruiters notice.

  3. 3
    For cabin crew (Flugbegleiter:in), expect a structured online application follow

    For cabin crew (Flugbegleiter:in), expect a structured online application followed by an Assessment-Center day in Düsseldorf or Cologne containing English/German language tests, a swimming test (50 m without aids and water survival exercises), a reach test (typically 212 cm on tiptoes), group exercises, and a one-on-one interview; medical class 2 (LBA) follows offer.

  4. 4
    For pilots (First Officer ATPL or MPL graduates from European Flight Academy / L

    For pilots (First Officer ATPL or MPL graduates from European Flight Academy / Lufthansa Aviation Training pipelines), the process runs through Lufthansa Group's selection (DLR-Test equivalents, sim assessment, group exercise, board interview) before type-rating; ad-hoc direct-entry first-officer windows open opportunistically when fleet expansion outpaces the LAT pipeline.

  5. 5
    Corporate, IT, and Technik roles follow a more conventional sequence: career

    Corporate, IT, and Technik roles follow a more conventional sequence: career.aero application → recruiter screen (German-language by default) → hiring-manager interview → second-round panel or case → offer; expect 4–8 weeks end-to-end depending on team and time of year.

  6. 6
    Submit early in the cycle: cabin crew Assessment-Center invitations for the summ

    Submit early in the cycle: cabin crew Assessment-Center invitations for the summer fleet are typically issued November through February, and slots fill on a first-qualified-first-invited basis rather than a fixed deadline.

  7. 7
    Always include both a tabular Lebenslauf (German CV) and an Anschreiben (cover l

    Always include both a tabular Lebenslauf (German CV) and an Anschreiben (cover letter) for German-speaking roles even when the posting is bilingual; recruiters at Lufthansa Group subsidiaries still treat the Anschreiben as a screening signal, and its absence reads as low effort.

  8. 8
    Track your application in the career

    Track your application in the career.aero portal — status changes (Eingegangen, In Prüfung, Eingeladen, Abgelehnt) update there before email notifications go out, so check the portal weekly during active windows.

Resume Tips for Eurowings

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Use a German tabellarischer Lebenslauf format for German-language postings: reve

Use a German tabellarischer Lebenslauf format for German-language postings: reverse-chronological work history, clearly delineated education block, language proficiencies stated using CEFR levels (B2, C1, C2) rather than self-rated stars, and a one-line personal data block at the top including date of birth and place of residence — this is standard practice in DACH applications and absence of it flags you as unfamiliar with the market.

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For cabin crew, foreground customer-facing experience, language combinations, an

For cabin crew, foreground customer-facing experience, language combinations, and any first-aid, hospitality, or evacuation-relevant training; Eurowings explicitly looks for candidates who can deliver service under disruption pressure, so quantify how you handled escalations, delays, or volume in past roles.

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For pilots, lead with total flight hours, multi-engine hours, jet hours, type ra

For pilots, lead with total flight hours, multi-engine hours, jet hours, type ratings, ATPL/MPL frozen status, medical class 1 validity, and English language proficiency level (ICAO Level 4, 5, or 6) on the first half of page one; recruiters scan for these data points before reading prose.

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For Technik (line and base maintenance) roles, list your EASA Part-66 licence ca

For Technik (line and base maintenance) roles, list your EASA Part-66 licence categories (B1, B2, C), type-rating endorsements, and human-factors recurrent training dates; Lufthansa Group MROs care about currency more than tenure.

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Save your CV as a single PDF named cleanly (Surname_Firstname_CV

Save your CV as a single PDF named cleanly (Surname_Firstname_CV.pdf) — the career.aero portal accepts PDF and Word but PDF preserves your formatting reliably across the recruiter's screen and in any downstream applicant tracking exports.

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Mirror the keywords from the Stellenanzeige (job posting) into your CV verbatim

Mirror the keywords from the Stellenanzeige (job posting) into your CV verbatim where truthful — career.aero does not run aggressive keyword filters, but the recruiter doing manual screening will scan for them, and consistency between posting and application speeds shortlisting.

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Include valid work authorisation status explicitly: for non-EU candidates state

Include valid work authorisation status explicitly: for non-EU candidates state visa class and validity, because Eurowings cannot sponsor cabin crew Aufenthaltstitel from scratch and many corporate roles require pre-existing EU/EEA work rights or in-progress Blue Card eligibility.

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Keep cover letters to a single page, address them to the named recruiter when li

Keep cover letters to a single page, address them to the named recruiter when listed, and reference the specific Stellen-ID from the career.aero posting — generic mass-market Anschreiben are visibly recognised and discarded fast at any Lufthansa Group company.

ATS System: career.aero (aviation-industry recruiting portal)

Eurowings runs its candidate-facing application flow on career.aero, an aviation-specific recruiting platform also used by other German-speaking airlines and aviation employers. It is not SAP SuccessFactors (which Lufthansa mainline uses for some corporate flows) nor Workday — it is a purpose-built airline applicant portal with category-segmented job lists, a persistent candidate profile, document upload per applicant rather than per application, and German-default localisation with an English mirror at /en/. Because it is a smaller bespoke ATS, parsing is conservative: stick to standard PDF CVs, avoid columns and graphics, and let the human recruiter do the matching rather than relying on aggressive keyword automation.

  • Create your career.aero candidate account first, complete every profile field, and only then start applying — partial profiles get sorted to the bottom of the recruiter queue.
  • Upload documents as single-PDF, Latin-character filenames; the portal accepts umlauts but exports cleaner without them.
  • career.aero does not aggressively reformat your CV the way large enterprise ATSes do, so what you upload is what the recruiter sees — proofread accordingly.
  • Use the German interface (/de/) when applying for German-language postings; switching to /en/ does not change which version of the posting you applied to but can confuse downstream correspondence.
  • Set up career.aero job alerts for the specific category you target (Cockpit, Cabin, Technik, Corporate) — postings often go live with very short application windows during peak hiring waves.

Interview Culture

Eurowings interviews follow the German corporate norm: structured, on-time, formally polite, and grounded in concrete competency evidence rather than personality storytelling.

Cabin crew Assessment-Center days are highly procedural — expect a fixed agenda, a panel of recruiters and current crew, and group exercises designed to surface composure under pressure rather than charisma. Recruiters explicitly look for what they call 'Crew-Tauglichkeit' (crew suitability): the ability to follow SOPs without resentment, to work multi-day rotations with strangers, and to absorb passenger frustration without losing professional bearing. For pilot interviews, the culture is even more procedural — sim profiles, technical questioning, and CRM (Crew Resource Management) scenarios dominate, and answers are scored against a competency matrix you will not see. For corporate and IT roles, expect a recruiter screen in German followed by a hiring-manager interview that mixes behavioural questions (STAR-format answers land well) with role-specific case discussion, and often a final panel with cross-functional stakeholders. Across every track, candidates report that punctuality, formal address (Sie until invited otherwise), preparation on the Lufthansa Group structure, and informed questions about the Tariffvertrag and rotational realities make a measurable difference. Showing genuine awareness that Eurowings sits between Lufthansa mainline and Ryanair-tier carriers — and articulating why that is the right fit for you — separates candidates who have done their homework from those who applied to every airline in Europe.

What Eurowings Looks For

  • Operational reliability under disruption — strikes, weather, ATC delays, and crew-shortage rotations are part of the European low-cost reality, and Eurowings hires for people who hold their bearing rather than escalate.
  • German language capability at minimum B2 for any customer-facing or German-base role; C1 or native is the realistic floor for corporate roles in Düsseldorf and Cologne, even when the team works in English day-to-day.
  • Aviation-specific qualifications and currency — EASA licences for cockpit and Technik, valid medical, recurrent training documentation, and clean ramp/safety records are non-negotiable for licensed roles.
  • Genuine alignment with the Lufthansa Group's safety and service culture — candidates who frame aviation as a calling rather than a transactional job consistently rate higher in cabin and cockpit panels.
  • Cross-cultural service skill, particularly for cabin crew working tourism routes; comfort with Mediterranean leisure passenger demographics and the ability to handle alcohol-related escalations professionally is screened for explicitly.
  • Understanding of the Tariffvertrag environment and union landscape (UFO for cabin crew, Vereinigung Cockpit for pilots, ver.di for ground) — candidates who pretend strikes never happened in 2024–2025 read as either underprepared or evasive.
  • Geographic flexibility within the German base network — willingness to relocate or commute between Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg, Stuttgart, and Vienna materially widens the roles you are eligible for.
  • For corporate, IT, and Ops roles: demonstrable airline-domain familiarity (revenue management, network planning, crew rostering, ground handling, MRO economics) and the ability to operate inside a regulated, safety-critical, unionised environment without friction.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Eurowings part of the Lufthansa Group?
Yes. Eurowings is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, sitting alongside Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover Airlines, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Technik, and ITA Airways. It runs its own AOC, its own Tariffvertrag, and its own seniority lists, but shares group-level back-office functions and offers (limited and competitive) internal mobility across subsidiaries.
What ATS does Eurowings use?
Eurowings uses career.aero, an aviation-industry-specific recruitment platform, for its candidate applications. The careers.eurowings.com brand site routes every application into the career.aero portal at www.career.aero/eurowings, where candidates create a single account, upload documents, and apply across all tracks — cockpit, cabin, technik, IT, corporate, ops, and Eurowings Holidays.
Did Eurowings Discover become Discover Airlines?
Yes. In September 2024, the long-haul leisure brand Eurowings Discover was rebranded as Discover Airlines and now operates as a separate Lufthansa Group subsidiary with its own AOC, its own A330/A340 fleet flying to the Caribbean, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, and its own hiring pipeline. If you are interested in long-haul widebody flying you should apply directly to Discover Airlines, not to Eurowings, which is now exclusively a short- and medium-haul A320-family operator.
Do I need to speak German to work at Eurowings?
For almost every role, yes — at minimum B2 CEFR for customer-facing positions and typically C1 or native for corporate roles based in Düsseldorf or Cologne. English-only candidates have realistic options primarily in IT, Eurowings Digital, and a small number of internationally-staffed corporate functions. Cockpit and cabin crew must hold ICAO English language proficiency at Level 4 or higher, but on-the-line communication with German colleagues and German-speaking passengers makes German competency a practical requirement even where it is not formally listed.
What does cabin crew (Flugbegleiter:in) selection look like?
After your career.aero application is shortlisted, you are invited to a one-day Assessment-Center in Düsseldorf or Cologne. The day typically includes English and German language tests, a 50-metre swim test plus water survival exercises, a reach test (around 212 cm on tiptoes), group exercises observed by recruiters and current crew, and an individual interview. Candidates who pass receive a conditional offer and proceed to medical (LBA Class 2) and the company training course before line operations.
How do I become a Eurowings pilot?
Most Eurowings first officers enter via the Lufthansa Group's ab-initio pipeline through European Flight Academy or Lufthansa Aviation Training, completing the MPL or ATPL programme and being placed at a group subsidiary on graduation. Eurowings also opens direct-entry first-officer windows opportunistically when fleet growth outpaces the in-house pipeline; these typically require a frozen ATPL or full ATPL, A320 type rating preferred, current EASA Class 1 medical, and ICAO English Level 4+. All pilot selection runs through group-level testing (DLR-equivalent psychometrics, sim assessment, group exercise, board interview) before contract.
Are Eurowings cabin crew unionised, and how does that affect employment?
Yes. Cabin crew are represented primarily by UFO (Unabhängige Flugbegleiter Organisation), and pilots by Vereinigung Cockpit. Both unions actively negotiate the Tariffvertrag covering pay, rest rules, rotations, and crew compositions, and both have called industrial action against Lufthansa Group entities including Eurowings during 2024 and 2025. As an employee you will be covered by the applicable Tariffvertrag from day one, and you should expect that your terms — pay, leave, rostering — are collectively negotiated rather than individually bargained.
Where are Eurowings' bases and where will I be based?
Eurowings' main operating bases include Düsseldorf (largest hub and headquarters), Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Palma de Mallorca, and Prague. Cabin and cockpit crew are based at the airport they operate from, and base assignment is part of the offer rather than negotiable later. Corporate, IT, Technik, and ops roles concentrate in Düsseldorf and Cologne. If you have a strong base preference, target postings tagged for that location rather than applying generically and hoping for placement.
How does Eurowings cabin crew pay compare to Lufthansa mainline?
Lower at equivalent seniority. Eurowings sits in the group's low-cost segment and its cabin-crew Tariffvertrag reflects that positioning, with starting salaries below Lufthansa mainline for the same job grade. This is a frequently cited point in employee reviews and is something you should research and price into your decision before accepting an offer rather than discover post-onboarding. Internal transfer to Lufthansa mainline is possible but competitive and not guaranteed by tenure.
What is the realistic timeline from application to start date?
For corporate, IT, and Technik roles, plan for four to eight weeks from application to offer, plus the standard German notice period (typically one to three months) before start. For cabin crew, the timeline is longer because applications are batched into Assessment-Center cycles tied to summer-fleet ramp: applying in November, attending an Assessment-Center in January, receiving a conditional offer in February, completing the company training course in March, and starting line operations in April or May is a realistic shape. Pilot timelines depend entirely on whether you are entering via the group pipeline (multi-year) or via a direct-entry window (typically three to six months including type rating).

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