Are your parents like Australian? Do you have a US green card, or is your spouse (who won’t move to US) American? If you answered No to all 3……..getting hired by anyone in the US is going to be very difficult almost impossible unless you can change one of those answers to yes.

Who are you flying with now?

Commuting to US from Europe can be done………..and it is done by a select few. The difference is those individuals are very senior and don’t move (often times back) to Europe until having 15-20+ seniority.

How old are your kids? If they are grown?…..Check out FedEx with the Cologne base. I think that’ll really be your sweet spot, I think they just stopped hiring though.
If they are young go for the EU legacy carrier…….life happens once and you can’t go around.

Whatever you do don’t joint a U.S. ULCC ……..just don’t