UAEDEL

6E · hub Delhi (DEL) · independent

Hand carry on IndiGo

The densest domestic network in India, which is what makes Coimbatore, Indore or Visakhapatnam reachable the same day.

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RouteUAE → DEL

Typical flying time3h 03m

Distance≈2,200 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon IndiGo

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 IndiGo, 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 Delhi (DEL) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (multiple daily)

AUHEtihad (multiple daily)

DOHQatar Airways (multiple daily)

SHJAir Arabia (daily or better)

DXBAir India (multiple daily)

International arrivals at Delhi use T3.

Alternative gateways nearby

JAIJaipur International, Jaipur · ≈230 km straight-line · own Gulf non-stop service

IXCChandigarh Airport, Chandigarh · ≈235 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

24/7the operations centre is awake

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

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

on IndiGo: 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.

Price it now How it works

OnBoard Courier IndiGo 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 6E code that yields 496 city pairs across 113 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.

113airports on this carrier

26countries and territories reached

496scheduled city pairs held

1,767average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the 6E code on 496 city pairs, reaching 113 airports in 26 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by OnBoard Courier IndiGo 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. 88.5 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Mumbai (BOM) to Manchester (MAN) at about 7,337 km, and the shortest is Jammu (IXJ) to Srinagar (SXR) at about 144 km. 64.9 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 New Delhi (DEL), on 83 of them, which is 16.7 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Mumbai (BOM) to New Delhi (DEL) at about 51.5 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. 130 of the 496 pairs run four or more times a day and 141 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 New Delhi (DEL) the code leans on Mumbai (BOM) on 73, Bangalore (BLR) on 70, Hyderabad (HYD) on 66 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the 6E code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Mumbai BOM	New Delhi DEL	India	51.5	1,138	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	New Delhi DEL	India	50.3	1,710	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	Mumbai BOM	India	40	834	the pair page
New Delhi DEL	Hyderabad HYD	India	31.4	1,268	the pair page
New Delhi DEL	Pune PNQ	India	28.2	1,157	the pair page
Kolkata CCU	New Delhi DEL	India	25.9	1,313	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	Pune PNQ	India	23.4	723	the pair page
Mumbai BOM	Hyderabad HYD	India	19.6	623	the pair page
Ahmedabad AMD	New Delhi DEL	India	19.1	757	the pair page
New Delhi DEL	Chennai MAA	India	18.6	1,761	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	Hyderabad HYD	India	18	455	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	Kolkata CCU	India	15.7	1,547	the pair page
New Delhi DEL	Srinagar SXR	India	15.3	642	plan this
Mumbai BOM	Chennai MAA	India	15.3	1,033	the pair page
Bangalore BLR	Chennai MAA	India	15.1	268	the pair page
New Delhi DEL	Patna PAT	India	14.9	857	plan this

The 16 sectors the 6E code appears on most often, out of 496. 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.

Where 6E meets the UAE gateways

OnBoard Courier IndiGo is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 37 pairs under this code touching Abu Dhabi (AUH), Dubai (DXB), Fujairah (FJR), Ras Al Khaimah (RKT), Sharjah (SHJ), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.

UAE airport	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	New Delhi DEL	India	14.7	2,184	plan this
Dubai DXB	Mumbai BOM	India	14.7	1,926	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Kochi COK	India	10	2,795	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Mumbai BOM	India	8	1,971	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Chennai MAA	India	7.4	2,966	plan this
Dubai DXB	Kochi COK	India	6.9	2,783	plan this
Dubai DXB	Hyderabad HYD	India	6.7	2,547	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Bangalore BLR	India	6.4	2,723	plan this

Night restrictions on the airports the 6E 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. 7 of the 113 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.

Abu Dhabi (AUH), night operations. Operates around the clock with a strong overnight bank.
Dubai (DXB), night operations. Operates around the clock. The overnight departure bank to Europe leaves between roughly 01:00 and 04:00 local, which is what makes a same day European delivery possible.
Doha (DOH), night operations. Operates around the clock with a strong overnight bank.
Singapore (SIN), night operations. Operates around the clock.
London (LHR), night restrictions. A night quota system limits movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local. Very few scheduled departures in that window.
Amsterdam (AMS), night restrictions. Night operations between 23:00 and 07:00 local are limited by an annual cap and runway rules.

Published lanes that carry the 6E code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. OnBoard Courier IndiGo appears in the schedule on 14 of them, and the one it flies most is Dubai to Delhi at about 14.7 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Dubai to Delhi, about 14.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,184 km.
Dubai to Mumbai, about 14.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 1,926 km.
Mumbai to London, about 8.9 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 7,213 km.
Mumbai to Abu Dhabi, about 8 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 1,971 km.
Dubai to Hyderabad, about 6.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,547 km.
Abu Dhabi to Bangalore, about 6.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,723 km.
Dubai to Bangalore, about 5.9 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,695 km.
Singapore to Mumbai, about 5.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 3,922 km.
Doha to Delhi, about 5.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,549 km.
Delhi to Abu Dhabi, about 5.2 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,277 km.

4 further published lanes carry this carrier as well. The lane index lists every one.

The countries the 6E code opens

Of the 26 countries and territories reached, 18 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 India with 76 airports on this code. The country desk for India sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

India (76 airports), United Arab Emirates (5 airports), Saudi Arabia (4 airports), Sri Lanka (2 airports), Indonesia (2 airports), Malaysia (2 airports), United Kingdom (2 airports), Thailand (2 airports), Vietnam (1 airports), Réunion (1 airports).

Where to go next on the 6E network

Each of the 113 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 496 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 New Delhi (DEL), the route calculator with Dubai to DEL already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where IndiGo fits in an OBC routing

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

Country page: India →Mumbai Delhi Bengaluru Chennai Hyderabad Ahmedabad Coimbatore (CJB)Kochi (COK)Surat (STV)Indore (IDR)Nagpur (NAG)Visakhapatnam (VTZ)

Markets in South Asia:

India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Nepal Maldives All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on IndiGo 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 IndiGo

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

01Are you an agent or partner of IndiGo?

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 IndiGo?

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 IndiGo?

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 IndiGo?

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 IndiGo?

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 IndiGo 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.

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.

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

How an assignment routed over Delhi runs

A Delhi 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 Delhi, 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

Before a price exists we screen the parties, the commodity and the route against sanctions and export-control lists, and we check whether Delhi 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

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

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

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Delhi (DEL), 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 Delhi 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 Delhi (DEL).

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter India 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.

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 India rather than a negotiating position.

Tariff classification

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

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 Delhi (DEL) into an afternoon.

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in India 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.

Named consignee with authority

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

What a Delhi 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 Delhi quote.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Delhi (DEL) 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.

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 India, and anything you ask for after departure that changes the routing.

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.

Visas and positioning

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

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Delhi 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 India sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk — The race for excellence has no finish line.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

What can go wrong on a Delhi 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 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 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.

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.

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.

Something needs to continue past Delhi

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Delhi (DEL) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

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

How jobs like this actually run

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

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.

EventsLAS → RUH

A show-control console after a failure during load-in.

Vendor pickup20:10

Two-leg routing23:30

Front of house07:45 +2

✓ Doors opened on time.

FashionMXP → DXB

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

Atelier pickup18:00

Morning departure09:35 +1

Backstage19:20 +1

✓ Every look on the rail before the rehearsal.

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.

Aircraft wing above the clouds — From this tarmac a courier can reach six continents before tomorrow night.
The geography that built Dubai

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Origin airport

Destination airport

Shipment type

Ready date & time

Who is booking

Company

What does the company do?

Your name

Phone

Email address

What is in the consignment?

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

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I need to send something

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

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I want to fly as a courier

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

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on IndiGo 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 IndiGo

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 IndiGo

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

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

OnBoard Courier IndiGo in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the 6E code most often

Where 6E meets the UAE gateways

Night restrictions on the airports the 6E code uses

Published lanes that carry the 6E code

The countries the 6E code opens

Where to go next on the 6E network

Where IndiGo 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 IndiGo

01Are you an agent or partner of IndiGo?

02Will my consignment definitely fly IndiGo?

03How much can a courier carry on IndiGo?

04Can I fly as a courier on IndiGo?

Need a routing that uses IndiGo?

Why a courier on IndiGo rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Delhi 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 Delhi goes

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Tariff classification

Commercial invoice

Duty, tax and who pays it

Named consignee with authority

What a Delhi courier actually costs, and why

How much notice you give us

The ground legs at both ends

What is always included

Declared value and insurance

Visas and positioning

Distance and sector count

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

The connection is missed

The declared value is challenged

The goods turn out to be regulated

Weather or airspace closes the route

Something needs to continue past Delhi

The flight is cancelled

More questions about carrying a consignment on IndiGo

01Is the consignment insured?

02Can I speak to a person during the journey?

03How quickly can a courier leave for Delhi?

04Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

05What happens if the flight is cancelled?

06How is delivery proven?

07Can you collect outside the UAE?

08What cannot travel with a courier?

How jobs like this actually run

The next flight out, not the next batch

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