Originally Posted by
Fawa2003
Hi, I have a good friend in same situation, if you have a EU residence, mabrouk! you can work in Europe.
Residence permit will give you right to work.
There is not really a thing like EU residency. Immigration and residency is not part of the EU rulebook but rather an individual thing for each member state with regards to third country citizens. Residency does not give the right to live and work in other EU countries, just in the one where you have it, and the rules around it are different between countries. There are some ways around that, but those are of limited use to many. If one marries an EU citizen the EU citizen has the freedom of movement and its third country spouse can accompany it, but has to apply for his right to live and work (aka residency) anew in each country, which can and will be granted only after the EU citizen has gained residency himself, which can take a few months.
Another way is to stay in the one country where one has residency for at least 5 years after gaining residency and then apply for a long term residency which in turn grants freedom of movement, aka the right to live and work within the EEA states.
Airlines, especially transnational ones like the Lowcost ones, want the unrestricted right to live and work within the EU/EEA so they can put you into bases in different countries. National carriers with bases only in one country might see that differently and could be happy with the right to live and work in that one country. However, a third country passport can sometimes make rostering harder as there might be differing entry requirements compared to EU citizens in other countries. All in all, it is an additional hassle for airlines and might get you on the PFO stack as long as other equally qualified applicants are available that do not have that problem.