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#1 easyJet Berlin, three years, and the easyJet Europe bases thread covers Geneva and Lisbon and not Berlin, which is the one German speakers ask about. Here is the Berlin base and the comparison with the German option that everyone weighs it against.
The base
Berlin Brandenburg, one of easyJet's larger continental bases and the biggest at the airport. A320 family, a network to the whole of Europe from Berlin with a heavy Mediterranean summer and a UK and Scandinavia component year round. The crew are majority German and German speaking with a large minority of other nationalities who came for Berlin, because Berlin.
The contract
A German employment contract with easyJet Europe (the Austrian registered subsidiary that runs the EU bases), under German employment law and with a German collective agreement negotiated by ver.di. This matters: it is not the UK contract, not the Swiss one, and it has the German protections on notice, dismissal and working time. The structure is the easyJet one: a basic, sector pay, commission, allowances, in euros, with the German tax and social contributions.
The pay
Honestly: the basic is modest, the sector pay makes the summer, and the net after German deductions is livable in Berlin, which is still cheaper than Munich or Frankfurt for rent. Similar to Eurowings on a comparable roster, a little different in shape.
Eurowings comparison
Eurowings has a Berlin base too and the two airlines compete for the same crew. Eurowings: Lufthansa Group, a different collective agreement, more German in culture, a slightly more traditional service, home every night. easyJet Berlin: British low cost culture with a German contract, a more international crew room, a faster operation, home most nights with a few night stops. Pay is close. The crew who choose easyJet do it for the international crew and the pace. The crew who choose Eurowings do it for the group and the traditional structure. Both are fine.
Language
German is required at the Berlin base for the announcements and the passengers. English is the operational language across easyJet. If you have both you are the target hire.
Berlin as a base city
The reason half the foreign crew are here. Cheap enough to live well on a junior salary if you avoid the obvious districts, a city that does not sleep on days off, and an airport that is a 40 minute train from anywhere. The winter is grey and long and the airport in January is a de-icing queue. Nobody minds, because it is Berlin.
Advice for German speakers
Apply to both easyJet Berlin and Eurowings Berlin, do both assessments, and decide on the crew room feel, because the money and the flying are close and the people are the difference.
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#2 Eurowings Düsseldorf, and Tobias is fair. Our Berlin base and easyJet's compete for the same people and the ones who go to easyJet always say the same thing: the crew room is more international. Ours is more German. Choose the room.
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#3 Berlin, applying to everything, and I had not realised the easyJet Berlin contract is a German one under German law. That changes the comparison a lot. Applying to both, as advised.
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#4 Geneva, and the continental easyJet bases each have their own contract and their own feel. Berlin is the international one, Geneva is the Swiss one, Lisbon is the Portuguese one. Same airline, three countries, three lives.
