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QG · hub Jakarta (CGK) · independent

Hand carry on Citilink

Citilink flies from Jakarta (CGK) in Indonesia. We book it when it has the next suitable departure, being independent of every alliance is what lets us combine it with any other carrier on one routing.

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RouteUAE → CGK

Typical flying time8h 15m

Distance≈6,550 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day, Late

One person beats a parcel networkon Citilink

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.

CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in on Citilink, same day or next morning

Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.

Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5

0h24h48h72h96h+

When a seat beats a parcel, the full comparison →

Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

One named courier from collection to signature
Customs cleared in person on arrival
Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Jakarta (CGK) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (daily or better)

AUHEtihad (daily)

DOHQatar Airways (daily or better)

Alternative gateways nearby

, No practical alternate within 250 km, this airport carries the lane alone

When the primary airport’s timing loses, a late bank, a curfew, a fog morning, the quote compares these alternates with the true road leg included, and names the winner.

220countries and territories on the desk

500+airports a courier can be booked into

15 minfrom your message to a firm price

24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Citilink

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For on Citilink that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities

flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback

Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for on Citilink is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at on Citilink first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on Citilink: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

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Citilink in the network the desk measures

Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the QG code that yields 50 city pairs across 35 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.

35airports on this carrier

5countries and territories reached

50scheduled city pairs held

465average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the QG code on 50 city pairs, reaching 35 airports in 5 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Citilink and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 100 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the carrier appears on no other block in this sample.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Ambon City (AMQ) to Jakarta (CGK) at about 2,389 km, and the shortest is Jakarta (CGK) to Bandar Lampung-Sumatra Island (TKG) at about 191 km. 90 per cent of the pairs are under 1,500 km. This is a short sector operator, which for a hand carry out of the Gulf means it is almost always the second leg of the routing rather than the first. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Jakarta (CGK), on 31 of them, which is 62 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Jakarta (CGK) to Denpasar-Bali Island (DPS) at about 36.7 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.7 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. Every one of the 50 pairs runs more than once a day, 32 of them four times or more, so there is a second aircraft on any sector the desk quotes under this code. After Jakarta (CGK) the code leans on Surabaya (SUB) on 11, Denpasar-Bali Island (DPS) on 6, Ujung Pandang-Celebes Island (UPG) on 5 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the QG code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Jakarta CGK	Denpasar-Bali Island DPS	Indonesia	36.7	983	the pair page
Jakarta CGK	Singapore SIN	Singapore	33.1	882	plan this
Jakarta CGK	Surabaya SUB	Indonesia	27.6	691	the pair page
Jakarta CGK	Kuala Lumpur KUL	Malaysia	27	1,129	the pair page
Jakarta CGK	Ujung Pandang-Celebes Island UPG	Indonesia	26.1	1,432	the pair page
Jakarta CGK	Palembang-Sumatra Island PLM	Indonesia	15.7	419	plan this
Jakarta CGK	Yogyakarta-Java Island YIA	Indonesia	15.6	423	plan this
Jakarta CGK	Pekanbaru-Sumatra Island PKU	Indonesia	14.7	933	plan this
Batam Island BTH	Jakarta CGK	Indonesia	14.3	854	plan this
Kotamadya Balikpapan BPN	Jakarta CGK	Indonesia	14.3	1,258	plan this
Denpasar-Bali Island DPS	Surabaya SUB	Indonesia	14.2	303	the pair page
Jakarta CGK	Bandar Lampung-Sumatra Island TKG	Indonesia	13.9	191	plan this

The 12 sectors the QG code appears on most often, out of 50. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.

How a courier reaches Jakarta from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no QG service into a UAE airport, so a courier does not board this carrier in Dubai. The routing is built the other way round: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg to Jakarta (CGK), and Citilink carries the second.

UAE gateway	Operated by	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Emirates	2.3	6,547	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Etihad Airways	1.3	6,575	plan this

The first leg, measured. These are the 2 links the desk holds from a UAE gateway into Jakarta (CGK), the airport this code is booked through most often.

Night restrictions on the airports the QG code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 2 of the 35 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.

Denpasar-Bali Island (DPS), nyepi closure. The airport closes for 24 hours once a year for Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, in March or April; the date moves with the Balinese calendar. No flights operate and nothing moves on the island.
Singapore (SIN), night operations. Operates around the clock.

Published lanes that carry the QG code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. Citilink appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Singapore to Jakarta at about 33.1 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Singapore to Jakarta, about 33.1 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 882 km.

The countries the QG code opens

Of the 5 countries and territories reached, 4 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Indonesia with 31 airports on this code. The country desk for Indonesia sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Indonesia (31 airports), Thailand (1 airports), Timor-Leste (1 airports), Singapore (1 airports), Malaysia (1 airports).

Where to go next on the QG network

Each of the 35 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 50 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Jakarta (CGK), the route calculator with Dubai to CGK already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where Citilink fits in an OBC routing

Citilink is based in Indonesia and operates from Jakarta (CGK) independently of the global alliances. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book Citilink when it has the next seat that gets your consignment there, and we combine it freely with any other airline on the same routing because we hold no alliance membership and no exclusive contract.

Cabin baggage reality

This is a low-cost carrier, so cabin baggage limits are tighter and enforced more strictly than on a full-service airline. We confirm the allowance for the exact flight before quoting, and where a consignment does not fit we book an additional seat or a different carrier rather than gambling at the gate.

Connections

Where a single Citilink sector does not reach the destination, the courier connects, and stays with the consignment on every leg, so it is never handed over in transit.

How we book

An ordinary passenger seat on the open market, in the courier's own name, matching the passport exactly. Premium cabins when the consignment or the schedule justifies it.

Customs is separate

The airline moves the aircraft; the courier declares the goods. Entry rules are per country, not per carrier, see our country guides.

Why frequency matters

A carrier with three rotations a day turns a missed departure into a short wait. That is worth more on a deadline than a marginally faster aircraft.

Independence

No alliance, no exclusivity, no volume commitment. The schedule decides, not a supplier agreement.

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

Airline timetables change constantly, so rather than reprint a schedule that will be wrong next month, here is what is useful: the markets where Citilink regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on Citilink, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: Indonesia →Jakarta Surabaya Surabaya (SUB)

Markets in Asia-Pacific:

China Hong Kong SAR Japan South Korea Taiwan Singapore Malaysia Thailand Vietnam Indonesia All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Citilink or any other carrier, this is what a courier changes compared with the hold of the same aircraft.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

The full comparison, with costs →

Questions about flying Citilink

What clients and couriers ask when they see this carrier on an assignment.

01Are you an agent or partner of Citilink?

No. OnBoard Courier is an independent courier management company. We buy ordinary passenger seats on the open market and hold no agency, contract or partnership with any airline. Airline names and marks belong to their owners and are used here only to describe the routes these assignments travel on.

02Will my consignment definitely fly Citilink?

Only if that is genuinely the fastest option for your deadline. We book whichever carrier departs next with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits.

03How much can a courier carry on Citilink?

This is a low-cost carrier, so cabin baggage limits are tighter and enforced more strictly than on a full-service airline. We confirm the exact allowance for the specific flight before quoting.

04Can I fly as a courier on Citilink?

If you are in our network, yes, couriers fly whichever airline the assignment requires. We book and pay the ticket and pay a fee per completed assignment.

Need a routing that uses Citilink?

Send the two ends and the deadline. We will check the live schedule across every carrier and come back with the fastest realistic option.

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Why a courier on Citilink rather than a cargo booking

The difference between a courier and a shipment is not speed, although speed is the reason most people call. The difference is that a shipment is a record in a system and a courier is a person with a legal obligation. Systems queue; people answer questions. That distinction decides almost everything about how a consignment behaves at a border.

What clients are actually buying is the removal of every handover. In a normal air freight movement a consignment changes hands seven or eight times: shipper, forwarder, handling agent, ramp, aircraft, ramp, break-bulk, broker, delivery agent. Each handover is a queue and each queue is where hours disappear. A courier reduces that number to one, collection, and one more, delivery.

The economics are less strange than they look. A courier assignment costs roughly what a business-class ticket costs, plus a fee and the ground work at each end. Set against a stopped production line, a grounded aircraft, an expiring clinical sample or a tender that closes at noon, that number stops being the interesting part of the conversation very quickly.

Applied to Jakarta, the practical upshot is simple: tell us the contents, the value, the deadline and the receiving party, and we will tell you within the hour whether a courier is the right answer, what it costs, and which flight it goes on. Where the honest answer is freight, you will get that instead.

How an assignment routed over Jakarta runs

The whole point of an on board courier is that nothing waits for a batch. Here is what actually happens between your message and the signature on a Jakarta assignment, with the timings we work to rather than the ones a brochure would promise.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

Everything starts with an honest description of the goods. We ask what it is, what it costs, who is receiving it in Jakarta and when it must be in their hands. Vague answers produce vague quotes and, far worse, customs problems at the other end.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether Indonesia will let it in without a permit we do not have, and whether it physically fits an aircraft cabin. Only then do you get a fixed price, and the price includes the ticket, the courier fee, transfers and a hotel where an overnight is unavoidable.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

We name the courier and the flight before you pay, not after. That means a real person with a passport valid well beyond the trip, the visas the Jakarta routing needs, and a record of assignments they have already closed cleanly.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

At collection the seal number is recorded, the goods are photographed and the paperwork is checked line by line against what is in the box. A description that does not match the contents is a common reason a hand-carry is held at Jakarta (CGK), and it is entirely preventable.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

Once airborne, the job is simply not to let go. The consignment stays in the cabin for every sector; where the routing to Jakarta connects, the courier remains airside with it rather than clearing and re-entering.

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Jakarta (CGK), answers questions in person and, where the category or the value warrants it, meets a customs broker we have already briefed. The handover is against signature, printed name and an identification reference, timestamped and with photographs where you have asked for them.

The paperwork that decides how fast Jakarta goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Jakarta (CGK).

Named consignee with authority

Someone in Jakarta must be entitled to receive the goods and, where clearance requires it, able to act as importer of record. A delivery address without an authorised person behind it is where otherwise perfect assignments stall.

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to Indonesia can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

Seal and photographic record

A numbered tamper-evident seal applied at collection and checked at delivery, with photographs at both ends. It costs nothing and it settles every argument about whether a package was opened between the two points.

Legalisation and attestation

Documents that must be legalised, apostilled or attested to be valid in Indonesia are checked before the courier collects them. A perfectly delivered document that lacks the right stamp has not solved anybody's problem.

Certificates and permits

Certificates of origin, health and phytosanitary certificates, dangerous goods declarations, export licences for dual-use items, import permits for regulated categories. We identify which of these Indonesia wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Jakarta (CGK) is far too late.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter Indonesia temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

What a Jakarta courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Anything beyond normal cabin baggage means a second seat, and occasionally two. An extra seat sounds dramatic until you compare it with a charter: it is an order of magnitude cheaper and it moves at the speed of a scheduled flight.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

Regulatory profile of the goods

Batteries, biological material, temperature-controlled consignments and anything export-controlled require preparation, sometimes a permit and occasionally a specialist packer. That work is real and it appears in the quote rather than as a surprise at the airport.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Jakarta (CGK) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

Whether the courier returns immediately

A same-day turnaround, an overnight with a hotel, or a courier who continues to a third country all cost differently. On a Jakarta routing the flight schedule usually decides this rather than anybody's preference.

Visas and positioning

If the routing to Indonesia needs a visthe courier does not hold, either we assign a courier who does or we position one, and a global network exists precisely so that the answer is usually the first option rather than the second.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in Indonesia sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk — He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

What can go wrong on a Jakarta assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

The flight is cancelled

Not a crisis, a routine. Before the courier leaves for the airport we already know the next two departures that could carry the consignment to Jakarta, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

The consignee is unreachable

We confirm the receiving party and a working phone number before the courier departs, and we agree a fallback in Jakarta, a second authorised person, or a secure hold, so that a delivery does not fail because someone went into a meeting.

The consignment is larger than described

Measured at collection, not at the gate. If it will not fit a locker we buy a seat for it there and then and tell you the revised number before the courier moves, rather than improvising at check-in.

Customs asks a question

A person can answer it. That single fact is most of the difference between a hand-carry and a cargo booking: a query at Jakarta (CGK) that would idle a shipment for a day gets resolved at the counter in minutes because the person who knows what is in the box is standing there.

The courier is refused boarding

Almost always a document problem: a passport too close to expiry, a missing transit visa, a name on the ticket that does not match the passport. Every one of those is checked at assignment, and it is checked again before the courier leaves for the airport.

The connection is missed

This is why we build routings above the minimum connection time rather than at it. Where a connection is genuinely tight, the courier holds the consignment airside and takes the next available service rather than clearing into a country they were only passing through.

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

FashionMXP → DXB

Runway samples finished in Milan on Thursday, the show was Saturday.

Atelier pickup18:00

Morning departure09:35 +1

Backstage19:20 +1

✓ Every look on the rail before the rehearsal.

BankingZRH → DXB

Instruments that required a named carrier and a witnessed handover.

Vault release10:05

Non-stop13:40

Counter-signed22:10

✓ Both signatures on one timeline.

PharmaAUH → LHR

Validation samples at 2 to 8 °C for a London reference lab, data-logger sealed.

Cool-chain packed16:30

In the cabin21:05

Lab signature08:20 +1

✓ Chain of custody and temperature log unbroken.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

A seat of its own, never out of sight

The case flies belted in the cabin next to the courier, never checked in.

Join the OBC network, become an on board courier

Every route on this site runs because somebody was willing to get on the plane with it. We are recruiting vetted couriers worldwide: we book and pay the flight, cover transfers and a hotel where an overnight is needed, and pay a fee for every completed assignment, stated in the offer before you accept it. You decide when you are available.

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Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

Departure hub

Destination airport

What is travelling? Weight: 5 kg More than 23 kg, second courier Service

How urgent?

Indicative total ,

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This sends exactly what you configured above, nothing to retype, no commitment. Indicative figures only; a person confirms the real fare and timing.

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Origin airport

Destination airport

Shipment type

Ready date & time

Who is booking

Company

What does the company do?

Your name

Phone

Email address

What is in the consignment?

Request received. We reply by email from bookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae, usually within 15 minutes.

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I need to send something

Book hand-carry delivery from the UAE to anywhere in the world, and follow it in real time. Same-day departure available.

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We pay the ticket and a fee per completed assignment. You choose when you are available.

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on Citilink is one chapter of a larger network. OnBoard Courier moves time-critical consignments with vetted on-board couriers departing 24/7 from all seven UAE airports to 584 destinations across 219 countries. Choose the service that fits, classic hand-carry, AOG for grounded aircraft, medical and pharma, next flight out or high-value goods, then check entry requirements and customs by country and how an assignment actually runs, minute by minute.

Prefer to compare first? Read when a seat beats a parcel network, browse the industries we move for or scan the airlines the couriers the desk places fly with. If you travel often yourself, flying as an OnBoard Courier pays per completed assignment. For anything urgent, the fastest route is the quote form above, answered by a person, day or night.

One person beats a parcel networkon Citilink

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Operational route facts

How the flying actually works

Alternative gateways nearby

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Citilink

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on Citilink: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Citilink in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the QG code most often

How a courier reaches Jakarta from the Gulf

Night restrictions on the airports the QG code uses

Published lanes that carry the QG code

The countries the QG code opens

Where to go next on the QG network

Where Citilink fits in an OBC routing

Cabin baggage reality

Connections

How we book

Customs is separate

Why frequency matters

Independence

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

On board courier vs air cargo

✓ On board courier

✕ Air cargo & express freight

Questions about flying Citilink

01Are you an agent or partner of Citilink?

02Will my consignment definitely fly Citilink?

03How much can a courier carry on Citilink?

04Can I fly as a courier on Citilink?

Need a routing that uses Citilink?

Why a courier on Citilink rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Jakarta runs

You tell us what it is

We screen it and price it

A named courier is assigned and booked

Collection, sealing and documentation

The consignment stays in the cabin

Customs, then a signature

The paperwork that decides how fast Jakarta goes

Named consignee with authority

Temperature and dangerous goods

Seal and photographic record

Legalisation and attestation

Certificates and permits

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

What a Jakarta courier actually costs, and why

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Declared value and insurance

Regulatory profile of the goods

The ground legs at both ends

Whether the courier returns immediately

Visas and positioning

What can go wrong on a Jakarta assignment, and what we do about it

The flight is cancelled

The consignee is unreachable

The consignment is larger than described

Customs asks a question

The courier is refused boarding

The connection is missed

More questions about carrying a consignment on Citilink

01Do you handle customs at Jakarta (CGK)?

02Is the consignment insured?

03Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

04What do you need from me to start?

05How quickly can a courier leave for Jakarta?

06What happens if the flight is cancelled?

07How is delivery proven?

08Can you collect outside the UAE?

How jobs like this actually run

A seat of its own, never out of sight

Join the OBC network, become an on board courier

Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

Get a quote for this route

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I want to fly as a courier