UAEJNB

FA · hub Johannesburg (JNB) · independent

Hand carry on FlySafair

FlySafair flies from Johannesburg (JNB) in South Africa. 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 → JNB

Typical flying time8h 05m

Distance≈6,400 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon FlySafair

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 FlySafair, 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 Johannesburg (JNB) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (multiple daily)

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 FlySafair

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 FlySafair 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 FlySafair 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 FlySafair first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on FlySafair: 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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FlySafair 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 FA code that yields 21 city pairs across 14 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.

14airports on this carrier

5countries and territories reached

21scheduled city pairs held

193average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the FA code on 21 city pairs, reaching 14 airports in 5 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by FlySafair 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. 92.9 per cent of those airports sit on African time zones, and the next largest block is on Indian Ocean time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Jo'anna (JNB) to Port Louis (MRU) at about 3,066 km, and the shortest is Jo'anna (JNB) to Mpumalanga (MQP) at about 298 km. 81 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 Jo'anna (JNB), on 11 of them, which is 52.4 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Cape Town (CPT) to Jo'anna (JNB) at about 50.4 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.5 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 11 of the 21 pairs run four or more times a day and 1 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 Jo'anna (JNB) the code leans on Cape Town (CPT) on 9, Durban (DUR) on 4, Port Elizabeth (PLZ) on 3 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the FA code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Cape Town CPT	Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	50.4	1,271	the pair page
Durban DUR	Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	36	479	plan this
Harare HRE	Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	14.4	958	plan this
Cape Town CPT	Durban DUR	South Africa	13.3	1,277	plan this
Jo'anna JNB	Port Elizabeth PLZ	South Africa	12.4	908	plan this
Bloemfontein BFN	Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	8	380	plan this
Jo'anna JNB	Mpumalanga MQP	South Africa	7.1	298	plan this
East London ELS	Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	7	768	plan this
George GRJ	Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	7	1,041	plan this
Jo'anna JNB	Victoria Falls VFA	Zimbabwe	5.9	928	plan this
Cape Town CPT	Port Elizabeth PLZ	South Africa	4.9	647	plan this
Cape Town CPT	Hoedspruit HDS	South Africa	3.9	1,610	plan this

The 12 sectors the FA code appears on most often, out of 21. 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 Jo'anna from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no FA 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 Jo'anna (JNB), and FlySafair carries the second.

UAE gateway	Operated by	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Emirates	4.6	6,413	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Etihad Airways	0.6	6,299	plan this

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

Published lanes the FA code can carry half of

None of the 346 lanes the site publishes is flown end to end under this code. These 8 are the ones it touches at one end, which is how a routing gets built when no single carrier covers the whole distance: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg and this one finishes it. The lane index holds the rest.

Abu Dhabi to Johannesburg, joined at Jo'anna (JNB), which this code reaches on 11 of its pairs.
Johannesburg to Doha, joined at Jo'anna (JNB), which this code reaches on 11 of its pairs.
Dubai to Johannesburg, joined at Jo'anna (JNB), which this code reaches on 11 of its pairs.
Frankfurt to Johannesburg, joined at Jo'anna (JNB), which this code reaches on 11 of its pairs.
Johannesburg to London, joined at Jo'anna (JNB), which this code reaches on 11 of its pairs.
Johannesburg to Perth, joined at Jo'anna (JNB), which this code reaches on 11 of its pairs.
Cape Town to London, joined at Cape Town (CPT), which this code reaches on 9 of its pairs.
Dubai to Cape Town, joined at Cape Town (CPT), which this code reaches on 9 of its pairs.

The countries the FA code opens

Of the 5 countries and territories reached, 3 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 South Africa with 9 airports on this code. The country desk for South Africa sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

South Africa (9 airports), Zimbabwe (2 airports), Namibia (1 airports), Mauritius (1 airports), Tanzania (1 airports).

Where to go next on the FA network

Each of the 14 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 21 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 Jo'anna (JNB), the route calculator with Dubai to JNB already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where FlySafair fits in an OBC routing

FlySafair is based in South Africa and operates from Johannesburg (JNB) independently of the global alliances. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book FlySafair 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 FlySafair 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 FlySafair regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on FlySafair, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: South Africa →Johannesburg Cape Town Durban

Markets in Middle East & Africa:

United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Qatar Kuwait Oman Bahrain Jordan Lebanon Iraq Israel All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on FlySafair 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 FlySafair

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

01Are you an agent or partner of FlySafair?

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 FlySafair?

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 FlySafair?

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 FlySafair?

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 FlySafair?

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 FlySafair rather than a cargo booking

It is worth being precise about what an on board courier is, because the phrase gets used for three different products. It is not a faster parcel service, it is not a premium express label, and it is not a charter. It is a person who buys a seat on a scheduled flight and carries your consignment in the cabin, in their own custody, from the moment they collect it to the moment somebody signs for it.

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.

What that adds up to for Johannesburg is a service you should use when the deadline is real and ignore when it is not. We would rather tell you to send it as express freight and keep the relationship than sell you a courier for a box that could have travelled overnight anyway.

How an assignment routed over Johannesburg runs

From the first message to the delivery signature, a Johannesburg assignment passes through six stages. None of them are automated away, and none of them involve your consignment sitting in a warehouse overnight.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

We need four things before we can say anything useful: what is inside, what it is worth, where exactly it has to be, and by when. Not a category, the actual item. “Electronic component” and “lithium battery pack” are the same box to you and two entirely different answers for a flight to Johannesburg.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

Before a price exists we screen the parties, the commodity and the route against sanctions and export-control lists, and we check whether Johannesburg requires a permit or a licensed consignee for that category. This is also where we occasionally say no, and a provider who never says no has simply moved the risk onto you.

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 Johannesburg, 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

The courier collects in person, checks the goods against the description, seals the packaging with a numbered tamper-evident seal and photographs it. The commercial invoice, packing list and any permit travel with the courier, and a copy reaches our operations desk and the consignee in Johannesburg at the same moment.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

It stays in one named courier's documented custody for the whole sector, in the aircraft cabin wherever size, classification, security rules and the operating airline permit it, and otherwise under an approved accompanied process. On the ground at any transit point the courier stays airside with it. There is no depot, no consolidation window and no overnight sort anywhere in the routing to Johannesburg.

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Johannesburg (JNB), 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 Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg (JNB).

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter South Africa at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

Legalisation and attestation

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

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in South Africa 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.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter South Africa 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.

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 South Africa 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 Johannesburg (JNB) into an afternoon.

What a Johannesburg 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.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in a Johannesburg quote.

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

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Johannesburg 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.

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.

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 South Africa 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 Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

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.

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 consignee is unreachable

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

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 Johannesburg (JNB) 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.

How jobs like this actually run

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

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.

YachtingNCE → DXB

A regatta winch motor between two race days.

Chandlery13:20

Evening non-stop18:05

Marina berth03:10 +1

✓ Boat on the start line.

EnergyDOH → IAH

A turbine control card for a plant running on reduced load.

Handover Doha07:10

Non-stop08:55

Site gate Houston17:30

✓ Unit back to full output the same night.

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.

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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Shipment type

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What is in the consignment?

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I need to send something

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on FlySafair 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 FlySafair

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 FlySafair

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

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

FlySafair in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the FA code most often

How a courier reaches Jo'anna from the Gulf

Published lanes the FA code can carry half of

The countries the FA code opens

Where to go next on the FA network

Where FlySafair 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 FlySafair

01Are you an agent or partner of FlySafair?

02Will my consignment definitely fly FlySafair?

03How much can a courier carry on FlySafair?

04Can I fly as a courier on FlySafair?

Need a routing that uses FlySafair?

Why a courier on FlySafair rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg goes

Tariff classification

Legalisation and attestation

Duty, tax and who pays it

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Temperature and dangerous goods

Commercial invoice

What a Johannesburg courier actually costs, and why

How much notice you give us

Whether the courier returns immediately

Distance and sector count

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Declared value and insurance

Regulatory profile of the goods

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

The flight is cancelled

The consignment is larger than described

The courier is refused boarding

The consignee is unreachable

Customs asks a question

The connection is missed

More questions about carrying a consignment on FlySafair

01Can I speak to a person during the journey?

02Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

03What cannot travel with a courier?

04Can a courier carry more than one consignment?

05Is the consignment insured?

06Are you an airline?

07What happens if the flight is cancelled?

08Do you handle customs at Johannesburg (JNB)?

How jobs like this actually run

The next flight out, not the next batch

Join the OBC network, become an on board courier

Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

Get a quote for this route

Request a quote

I need to send something

I want to fly as a courier

Where to go from here