The alternative would be to generate a page for every city pair somebody might search for and fill it with sentences that are true of air freight in general and of nothing in particular. Those pages exist in large numbers already and they are worth nothing to a reader with a shipment and a date.
Air freight · corridors
Air freight corridors
One page per lane, built only where this site holds dated scheduled network data for the pair. 12 of them.
- Corridors
- 12
- Built from
- Scheduled network data
- Checked
- 2026-09-07
- Rates published
- None
What this desk is. OnBoard Courier places on board couriers: a vetted person carries the consignment in the cabin on a scheduled passenger flight and hands it over against a signature. The desk does not operate air freight, does not hold an airline contract and is not a forwarder. Air freight enquiries sent through this site are passed to a vetted forwarding partner, and the pages here are written so that you can tell which of the two you actually need.
Why there are only 12 of them
A corridor page is built here only where this site holds real scheduled network data for the pair: an actual nonstop service in the dataset, an Atlas entry at both ends, and a country index behind each airport. That rules out most pairs, deliberately.
Every figure on a corridor page comes from the same dated dataset the Atlas is built from, and every page says where each number came from and what it does not cover.
The corridors
| Corridor | Airports | Countries | Flights a day | km | Modelled block time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai to Frankfurt | DXB to FRA | United Arab Emirates to Germany | 3.43 | 4,845 | 6h 20m |
| Dubai to Mumbai | DXB to BOM | United Arab Emirates to India | 14.71 | 1,927 | 2h 58m |
| Dubai to Delhi | DXB to DEL | United Arab Emirates to India | 14.57 | 2,184 | 3h 17m |
| Dubai to Singapore | DXB to SIN | United Arab Emirates to Singapore | 4.57 | 5,847 | 7h 33m |
| Dubai to Johannesburg | DXB to JNB | United Arab Emirates to South Africa | 4.57 | 6,412 | 8h 13m |
| Dubai to Amsterdam | DXB to AMS | United Arab Emirates to Netherlands | 3.43 | 5,169 | 6h 44m |
| Dubai to Paris | DXB to CDG | United Arab Emirates to France | 3.57 | 5,238 | 6h 49m |
| Abu Dhabi to London | AUH to LHR | United Arab Emirates to United Kingdom | 4.29 | 5,517 | 7h 09m |
| Frankfurt to Chicago | FRA to ORD | Germany to United States | 4.71 | 6,970 | 8h 54m |
| Frankfurt to Shanghai | FRA to PVG | Germany to China | 5.14 | 8,860 | 11h 10m |
| Frankfurt to Seoul | FRA to ICN | Germany to South Korea | 4.43 | 8,545 | 10h 48m |
| Amsterdam to Detroit | AMS to DTW | Netherlands to United States | 3.43 | 6,323 | 8h 07m |
Network data checked 2026-09-07. Distances are great circle. Block times are modelled on the same basis the route calculator uses, not measured.
Where this came from
- Scheduled network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics as held by this site, retrieved 2026-09-07. It is a snapshot rather than a live timetable, it includes some all cargo operators but is not a complete freighter schedule, and a carrier that is not listed may still fly the pair.
- Distances: Great circle, computed from published airport coordinates. They are shorter than a flown track and are not routing distances.
- Block times: Modelled, not measured: great circle distance times a track factor of 1.06, divided by a cruise speed of 720, 830 or 880 km/h by distance band, plus thirty minutes of taxi across the two ends. This is the same model the route calculator on this site uses. A real timetable will differ.
- Industrial sites: Public company information, checked 2026-09-07. Nothing here states or implies that any company named is a customer of OnBoard Courier or of any operator.
- Air cargo rules and definitions: The ICAO Technical Instructions and the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations for dangerous goods, IATA Resolution 600a for the air waybill, the Montreal Convention 1999 for carrier liability, and Incoterms 2020. Where this site holds no figure of its own it says so rather than inventing one.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a hand carry placement desk in Dubai. It does not fly air freight. These pages exist because the desk is asked to rescue air freight that has run out of time often enough to have learned where the line between the two sits, and because a comparison written by somebody who sells only one of the two options is not a comparison. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
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