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Hand carry on El Al

El Al flies from Tel Aviv (TLV) in Israel. 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 → TLV
Typical flying time2h 59m
Distance≈2,150 km
Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon El Al

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 El Al, 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+

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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 Tel Aviv (TLV) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (daily)
DXBflydubai (daily or better)
DXBEl Al / Israir (daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

AMMQueen Alia International, Amman · ≈110 km straight-line · own Gulf non-stop service
BEYRafic Hariri International, Beirut · ≈210 km straight-line · own Gulf non-stop service
DAMDamascus International, Damascus · ≈220 km straight-line · connection gateway

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

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 El Al 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 El Al 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 El Al first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on El Al: 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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OnBoard Courier El Al 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 LY code that yields 63 city pairs across 61 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.

61airports on this carrier
29countries and territories reached
63scheduled city pairs held
231average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the LY code on 63 city pairs, reaching 61 airports in 29 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by OnBoard Courier El Al 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. 75.4 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on Asian time zones.

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The longest sector held for the carrier is Los Angeles (LAX) to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV) at about 12,167 km, and the shortest is Newark (EWR) to New York (JFK) at about 33 km. 9 of the 63 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), on 59 of them, which is 93.7 per cent of everything held under this code.

02

The thickest sector under the code is Larnarca (LCA) to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV) at about 18.7 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 1.3 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 25 of the 63 pairs run four or more times a day and 21 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV) the code leans on Amman (AMM) on 3, Amsterdam (AMS) on 2, Berlin (BER) on 2 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the LY code most often

FromToCountryFlights a daykmOpen it
Larnarca LCATel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael18.7339the pair page
Athens ATHTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael181,194the pair page
Rodes Island RHOTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael10.7793the pair page
Heraklion HERTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael9.9971the pair page
Rome FCOTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael9.12,278the pair page
Bucharest OTPTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael91,591the pair page
Budapest BUDTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael8.72,166the pair page
Paphos PFOTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael8.3375the pair page
Paris CDGTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael7.33,284the pair page
Batumi BUSTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael6.71,222plan this
Prague PRGTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael6.12,635the pair page
Tel Aviv Yafo TLVVienna VIEAustria62,361the pair page
New York JFKTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael5.99,117the pair page
Munich MUCTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael5.42,655the pair page
Milan MXPTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael5.42,706the pair page
Tbilisi TBSTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael5.31,396the pair page

The 16 sectors the LY code appears on most often, out of 63. 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 Tel Aviv Yafo from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no LY 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 Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), and OnBoard Courier El Al carries the second.

UAE gatewayOperated byFlights a daykmOpen it
Dubai DXBflydubai11.12,131plan this
Abu Dhabi AUHEtihad Airways6.62,107plan this
Jebel Ali DWCoperator not held0.42,130plan this

The first leg, measured. These are the 3 links the desk holds from a UAE gateway into Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), the airport this code is booked through most often.

Night restrictions on the airports the LY 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. 12 of the 61 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.

  • Amsterdam (AMS), night restrictions. Night operations between 23:00 and 07:00 local are limited by an annual cap and runway rules.
  • Berlin (BER), night restrictions. Core quiet period from midnight to 05:00 local, with restricted movements from 22:00 and until 06:00.
  • Zurich (ZRH), night restrictions. Scheduled movements end at 23:00 local, with delayed flights permitted until 23:30. Nothing scheduled before 06:00.
  • Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
  • Madrid (MAD), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
  • Geneva (GVA), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between midnight and 06:00 local.

Published lanes that carry the LY code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. OnBoard Courier El Al appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Tel Aviv to Frankfurt at about 5.1 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

The countries the LY code opens

Of the 29 countries and territories reached, 13 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 Greece with 8 airports on this code. The country desk for Israel sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Greece (8 airports), Italy (6 airports), United States (5 airports), France (4 airports), Germany (3 airports), Croatia (2 airports), Cyprus (2 airports), Switzerland (2 airports), Bulgaria (2 airports), Spain (2 airports).

Where to go next on the LY network

Each of the 61 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 63 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 Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), the route calculator with Dubai to TLV already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where El Al fits in an OBC routing

El Al is based in Israel and operates from Tel Aviv (TLV) independently of the global alliances. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book El Al 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

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We still confirm the limit for the specific flight and aircraft type before quoting.

Connections

Where a single El Al 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 El Al regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on El Al, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: Israel →

Markets in Middle East & Africa:

United Arab EmiratesSaudi ArabiaQatarKuwaitOmanBahrainJordanLebanonIraqIsraelAll countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on El Al 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.

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Questions about flying El Al

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

01Are you an agent or partner of El Al?

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 El Al?

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 El Al?

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We confirm the exact allowance for the specific flight before quoting.

04Can I fly as a courier on El Al?

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.

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Why a courier on El Al rather than a cargo booking

Every logistics option is a trade between cost, speed and control. Sea freight gives up speed. Air cargo gives up control. A charter gives up cost. An on board courier is the only option that keeps speed and control and pays for them with the price of a passenger ticket, which is why it exists at all.

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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.

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It is also worth saying what the service does not fix. It does not make a permit appear, it does not make a sanctioned party acceptable, and it does not make an undeclared battery legal. Where those are the problem, a courier only makes the problem arrive faster, which is why the screening happens before the quote.

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On the Tel Aviv lane this matters more than average, because the schedule and the customs position both reward preparation and punish improvisation. The half hour spent on the description of the goods before departure is the half day you do not spend at the border afterwards.

How an assignment routed over Tel Aviv runs

A Tel Aviv assignment is not complicated, but every step has a failure mode, and the difference between an operator and a broker is whether those failure modes were planned for before the courier left the house.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

The first conversation is short and specific: contents, declared value, collection address, delivery address in Tel Aviv, and the real deadline rather than the comfortable one. If there are batteries, powders, liquids, biological material or anything regulated in the box, that is the moment to say so, not at the check-in desk.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether Israel 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

The matching runs against couriers who are available now, whose passport and visas suit the route to Tel Aviv, and whose delivery history fits the value of the consignment. The ticket is then bought in the courier's own name, matching their passport exactly, a booking in anything but the traveller's legal name is refused at the gate.

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 Tel Aviv (TLV), and it is entirely preventable.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

The flight is the boring part, and that is the point. No hold, no handling agent, no transfer between systems, one person, one box, one continuous chain of custody all the way to Tel Aviv (TLV).

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Tel Aviv (TLV), 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 Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv (TLV).

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 Israel wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Tel Aviv (TLV) is far too late.

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 Israel 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.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Tel Aviv (TLV) into an afternoon.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter Israel 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.

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.

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in Israel are the consignee's cost unless you have agreed otherwise in writing, and the terms should be settled before departure. It is a small conversation before the flight and an expensive one after it.

What a Tel Aviv 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.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Tel Aviv (TLV) 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.

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.

What is always included

Ticket, courier fee, airport transfers, the hotel where an overnight is unavoidable, the documentation work and our operations desk being awake for the whole journey. What is not included is duty and tax in Israel, and anything you ask for after departure that changes the routing.

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 Tel Aviv routing the flight schedule usually decides this rather than anybody's preference.

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.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Tel Aviv is one ticket and one risk. A two-sector routing is cheaper on paper and more expensive in practice, because every connection is a chance to lose the consignment's schedule. We quote the routing we would actually fly, not the cheapest one that technically arrives.

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 Israel sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk
The word “impossible” is not in the leaders’ dictionaries.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

What can go wrong on a Tel Aviv 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 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 goods turn out to be regulated

Found before departure, this is a repack or a permit. Found at security, it is a lost flight and sometimes a confiscation. It is the reason we ask uncomfortable questions about contents at the very beginning instead of taking a booking politely.

The consignee is unreachable

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

The declared value is challenged

It happens, and it is survivable when the invoice is realistic and consistent with the goods. It is not survivable when someone wrote a convenient number. We check this before departure precisely because there is no way to fix it afterwards.

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 Tel Aviv (TLV) 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 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.

More questions about carrying a consignment on El Al

The questions clients actually ask before their first assignment, answered without marketing language.

01What happens if the flight is cancelled?

We rebook. Before departure we already know the next alternatives to Tel Aviv across the carriers we can lawfully use, so a cancellation costs hours rather than a day. You are told the new arrival time as soon as we have it, not after you ask.

02Can a courier carry more than one consignment?

Only where both belong to the same client and the customs position is clean. Mixing two clients' goods under one declaration into Israel creates a liability neither of them agreed to, so we do not do it.

03Can I speak to a person during the journey?

Yes, and that is the point of the service. Our operations desk answers by email at bookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae for the whole assignment, and we contact you at collection, at departure, on arrival and at delivery without waiting to be asked.

04Can you collect outside the UAE?

Yes. Third-country assignments, collect in one country, deliver in another, are a normal part of the work, and they are routed through the fastest connection rather than automatically through Dubai. Where a courier already in the region can take it, that is what happens.

05How quickly can a courier leave for Tel Aviv?

A vetted courier can normally be at a UAE airport within two to four hours of a confirmed booking. The real constraint is not our side, it is the next departure with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits. Because we use all seven UAE airports and buy on the open market rather than through one carrier, that next departure is usually sooner than people expect.

06Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

No. That is the definition of the service rather than a policy we could relax. It travels in the cabin, in the courier's custody, for every sector of the journey to Tel Aviv. If something genuinely cannot travel in a cabin, we will tell you that and discuss freight or a charter instead of pretending.

07How is delivery proven?

Signature, printed name and an identification reference, with a timestamp, plus photographs where you have asked for them. It is produced by the courier at the moment of handover in Tel Aviv, not generated by a depot three hours later.

08Is the consignment insured?

All-risk cover on the declared value is arranged on request and confirmed in writing before collection. We do not rely on airline liability, because under the Montreal Convention that liability is a small fraction of what most courier consignments are worth.

From the operations desk

How jobs like this actually run

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

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.
MediaLHR → DXB

A graded master drive for a premiere, no copies allowed to travel unaccompanied.

Post-house12:15
In the cabin16:20
Screening room01:30 +1
✓ Premiere ran from the original.

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

How it moves

The next flight out, not the next batch

Your consignment is booked on a named flight, boarding within hours.

Inside the aircraft cabin

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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.

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Three ways the desk can move on El Al

Same courier, same cabin, different amount of ground work. The desk recommends one of these in the quote and prices the other two if you ask.

The lean one

Airport to airport

  • A courier meets your driver airside at the departure airport
  • The consignment stays in the cabin for the whole flight
  • Your consignee, or their broker, collects at the arrival airport
  • Cleared in person, questions answered at the counter

Best when both ends have people who can reach an airport.

Price this for on El Al
What most clients book

Door to door

  • Collection at your address, sealed and photographed
  • One named courier from that door to the signature
  • Customs cleared in person on arrival, duties handled as agreed
  • Proof of delivery with signature, identity check and photograph

The full chain, one price, one person answerable for it.

Price this for on El Al
When the schedule will not do

Charter and relay

  • A second courier takes over where a visa or a duty limit stops the first
  • A private aircraft where the last airline departure has gone
  • Ground relay across a border when flying is the slower option
  • Priced case by case, in writing, before anything moves

For deadlines that a scheduled seat cannot reach.

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