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A9 · hub Tbilisi (TBS) · independent

Hand carry on Georgian Airways

Georgian Airways flies from Tbilisi (TBS) in Georgia. 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 → TBS
Typical flying time2h 54m
Distance≈2,050 km
Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon Georgian Airways

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 Georgian Airways, 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 Tbilisi (TBS) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBflydubai (daily or better)
SHJAir Arabia (daily)
DOHQatar Airways (daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

EVNZvartnots International, Yerevan · ≈175 km straight-line · own Gulf non-stop service

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.

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500+airports a courier can be booked into
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Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Georgian Airways

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 Georgian Airways 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 Georgian Airways 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 Georgian Airways first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on Georgian Airways: 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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Georgian Airways 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 A9 code that yields 15 city pairs across 15 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.

15airports on this carrier
10countries and territories reached
15scheduled city pairs held
23average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the A9 code on 15 city pairs, reaching 15 airports in 10 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Georgian Airways 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. 60 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 Paris (CDG) to Tbilisi (TBS) at about 3,366 km, and the shortest is Yerevan (EVN) to Tbilisi (TBS) at about 176 km. 4 of the pairs are under 1,500 km and 0 run past 5,000 km, a medium haul shape that usually joins a Gulf departure at a single interchange. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Tbilisi (TBS), on 14 of them, which is 93.3 per cent of everything held under this code.

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The thickest sector under the code is Tbilisi (TBS) to Moscow (VKO) at about 6.1 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 3.9 hours. At roughly that interval a missed departure costs most of a working day, which is still inside a same day promise if the collection was early. 10 of the 15 pairs run once a day or less and only 2 run four times or more. A network shaped like that is quoted on the outbound flight by name, because on most of it the next aircraft is tomorrow. After Tbilisi (TBS) the code leans on Moscow (VKO) on 2, Batumi (BUS) on 2, Amsterdam (AMS) on 1 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the A9 code most often

FromToCountryFlights a daykmOpen it
Tbilisi TBSMoscow VKORussia6.11,646the pair page
Tbilisi TBSTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael5.31,396the pair page
Batumi BUSMoscow VKORussia2.31,586plan this
Saint-Petersburg LEDTbilisi TBSGeorgia1.72,254the pair page
Larnarca LCATbilisi TBSGeorgia1.31,243the pair page
Yerevan EVNTbilisi TBSGeorgia1176the pair page
Tbilisi TBSVienna VIEAustria12,333plan this
Amsterdam AMSTbilisi TBSGeorgia0.93,220plan this
Batumi BUSTbilisi TBSGeorgia0.7279plan this
Bergamo BGYTbilisi TBSGeorgia0.62,846the pair page
Paris CDGTbilisi TBSGeorgia0.63,366plan this
Nice NCETbilisi TBSGeorgia0.63,067the pair page

The 12 sectors the A9 code appears on most often, out of 15. 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 Tbilisi from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no A9 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 Tbilisi (TBS), and Georgian Airways carries the second.

UAE gatewayOperated byFlights a daykmOpen it
Dubai DXBflydubai2.42,061plan this
Sharjah SHJAir Arabia1.72,060plan this
Abu Dhabi AUHAir Arabia Abu Dhabi1.12,115plan this

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

Night restrictions on the airports the A9 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. 4 of the 15 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.

  • Vienna (VIE), night restrictions. Movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local are limited.
  • Berlin (BER), night restrictions. Core quiet period from midnight to 05:00 local, with restricted movements from 22:00 and until 06:00.
  • Amsterdam (AMS), night restrictions. Night operations between 23:00 and 07:00 local are limited by an annual cap and runway rules.
  • Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.

Published lanes the A9 code can carry half of

None of the 346 lanes the site publishes is flown end to end under this code. These 29 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.

The countries the A9 code opens

Of the 10 countries and territories reached, 6 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 Russia with 3 airports on this code. The country desk for Georgia sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Russia (3 airports), France (2 airports), Italy (2 airports), Georgia (2 airports), Austria (1 airports), Germany (1 airports), Netherlands (1 airports), Armenia (1 airports), Israel (1 airports), Cyprus (1 airports).

Where to go next on the A9 network

Each of the 15 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 15 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 Tbilisi (TBS), the route calculator with Dubai to TBS already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where Georgian Airways fits in an OBC routing

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

Country page: Georgia →Tbilisi (TBS)

Markets in Europe:

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On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Georgian Airways 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 Georgian Airways

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

01Are you an agent or partner of Georgian Airways?

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 Georgian Airways?

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 Georgian Airways?

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 Georgian Airways?

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 Georgian Airways?

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 Georgian Airways 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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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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The other thing being bought is answerability. When a customs officer has a question about a shipment, the shipment cannot answer, so it waits for someone who can. When the question is asked of a courier standing at the counter with the invoice in their hand, it is answered immediately. That is not a marketing claim; it is the entire operational advantage compressed into one sentence.

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What that adds up to for Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi runs

A Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi, 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 Georgia 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

Assignment is not a raffle. The consignment's value, its regulatory profile and the destination decide who is offered it. For Tbilisi, visa eligibility usually narrows the list faster than availability does, which is exactly why a global courier network is worth having.

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 Tbilisi at the same moment.

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 Tbilisi connects, the courier remains airside with it rather than clearing and re-entering.

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

At Tbilisi (TBS) the goods are declared properly, a commercial consignment goes through the red channel, and a courier who chooses the green channel to save twenty minutes has committed an offence rather than a shortcut. Delivery follows immediately, against a signed and timestamped receipt.

The paperwork that decides how fast Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi (TBS).

Legalisation and attestation

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

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 Tbilisi (TBS) into an afternoon.

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter Georgia 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.

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Repairs, exhibition goods, replacements and samples still need a document with a realistic value on it. The value is what the goods are worth, not what you would like the duty to be, an understated value is a customs offence in Georgia rather than a negotiating position.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter Georgia 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.

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 Georgia wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Tbilisi (TBS) is far too late.

What a Tbilisi 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 Tbilisi quote.

Weekends, nights and public holidays

We operate around the clock, and a consignment collected at 02:00 on a Friday is a normal assignment rather than a special case. It is priced the same way as any other; what changes is which flights exist, not what we charge for our part.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Tbilisi (TBS) 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 Georgia, 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 Tbilisi routing the flight schedule usually decides this rather than anybody's preference.

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

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What can go wrong on a Tbilisi 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.

Weather or airspace closes the route

Force majeure does not disappear because a shipment is urgent. What we do is re-plan around it, a different hub, a different carrier, occasionally a different UAE airport, and tell you what the new arrival time is rather than letting you discover it.

The consignee is unreachable

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

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.

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 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.

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 Tbilisi (TBS) 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.

More questions about carrying a consignment on Georgian Airways

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

01How quickly can a courier leave for Tbilisi?

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.

02What cannot travel with a courier?

Undeclared dangerous goods, controlled substances, weapons and weapon parts, counterfeits, unlicensed dual-use items, live animals, and anything whose parties or end use fail sanctions screening. Some regulated categories can travel with the right permit and packing; we tell you which case yours is before you pay.

03Does 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 Tbilisi. If something genuinely cannot travel in a cabin, we will tell you that and discuss freight or a charter instead of pretending.

04What happens if the flight is cancelled?

We rebook. Before departure we already know the next alternatives to Tbilisi 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.

05How 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 Tbilisi, not generated by a depot three hours later.

06Is 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.

07Can 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.

08Do you handle customs at Tbilisi (TBS)?

The courier declares the goods in person through the red channel, and where the value or the category warrants it we brief a licensed customs broker in Georgia in advance. Duty and tax are the consignee's cost unless agreed otherwise in writing.

From the operations desk

How jobs like this actually run

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

AutomotiveSTR → DXB

A prototype part for a validation rig, crated to fit the cabin allowance.

Plant pickup09:40
Via FRA13:30
Test bench23:55
✓ Rig time kept, no week lost to freight.
AOGDXB → FRA

A narrow-body grounded for a hydraulic sensor at a Frankfurt MRO line.

Collected14:10
Wheels up18:15
At the MRO line23:40
✓ Aircraft released for the morning wave.
SemiconductorSHJ → TPE

A reticle case that had to stay upright, in sight, in the cabin.

Cleanroom pickup11:20
Via a same-day connection14:45
Fab dock06:50 +1
✓ Line stoppage avoided.

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.

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Three ways the desk can move on Georgian Airways

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.

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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 Georgian Airways
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.

Price this for on Georgian Airways

Every option is quoted as one all-in figure with a named flight. Nothing on this page is a rate card.

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