UAEFCO

AZ · hub Rome (FCO) · SkyTeam

Hand carry on ITA Airways

Rome and Milan for Italian industry and the fashion calendar.

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RouteUAE → FCO

Typical flying time5h 37m

Distance≈4,350 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon ITA 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 ITA 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+

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 Rome (FCO) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (multiple daily)

AUHEtihad (daily)

DOHQatar Airways (multiple daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

CIACiampino Airport, Rome · ≈30 km straight-line · connection gateway

NAPNaples International, Naples · ≈200 km straight-line · connection gateway

FLRPeretola Airport, Florence · ≈240 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 ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA Airways first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on ITA 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.

Price it now How it works

ITA 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 AZ code that yields 96 city pairs across 76 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.

76airports on this carrier

25countries and territories reached

96scheduled city pairs held

494average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the AZ code on 96 city pairs, reaching 76 airports in 25 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by ITA 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. 69.7 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on time zones in the Americas.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Buenos Aires (EZE) to Rome (FCO) at about 11,156 km, and the shortest is Albenga (ALL) to Milan (LIN) at about 180 km. 15 of the 96 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Rome (FCO), on 67 of them, which is 69.8 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Montreal (YUL) to Toronto (YYZ) at about 30.9 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.8 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Rome (FCO), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 44 of the 96 pairs run four or more times a day and 14 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 Rome (FCO) the code leans on Milan (LIN) on 26, Amsterdam (AMS) on 2, Miami (MIA) on 2 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the AZ code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Montreal YUL	Toronto YYZ	Canada	30.9	507	the pair page
Rome FCO	Palermo PMO	Italy	26.6	410	plan this
Catania CTA	Rome FCO	Italy	24.6	539	plan this
Rome FCO	Madrid MAD	Spain	19.7	1,331	the pair page
Barcelona BCN	Rome FCO	Italy	15.6	848	the pair page
Rome FCO	Frankfurt-am-Main FRA	Germany	13.6	958	the pair page
Paris CDG	Rome FCO	Italy	13.1	1,101	the pair page
Rome FCO	Milan LIN	Italy	12.9	470	plan this
Rome FCO	London LHR	the United Kingdom	11.4	1,444	the pair page
Amsterdam AMS	Milan LIN	Italy	10.9	831	plan this
Bogotá BOG	Miami MIA	the United States	10.7	2,435	plan this
Rome FCO	Munich MUC	Germany	10.4	729	plan this
Athens ATH	Rome FCO	Italy	10.3	1,085	the pair page
Rome FCO	New York JFK	the United States	9.6	6,866	the pair page
Rome FCO	Tel Aviv Yafo TLV	Israel	9.1	2,278	the pair page
Paris CDG	Milan LIN	Italy	8.3	644	plan this

The 16 sectors the AZ code appears on most often, out of 96. 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 Rome from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no AZ 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 Rome (FCO), and ITA Airways carries the second.

UAE gateway	Operated by	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Emirates	2.3	4,343	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Etihad Airways	1.9	4,339	plan this
Sharjah SHJ	Air Arabia	1.1	4,350	plan this

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

Night restrictions on the airports the AZ 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. 13 of the 76 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.

Brussels (BRU), night restrictions. Night movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local are limited by quota and noise rules.
Hamburg (HAM), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight.
Munich (MUC), night restrictions. Scheduled movements are limited between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a core quiet period from midnight to 05:00.
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.
Zurich (ZRH), night restrictions. Scheduled movements end at 23:00 local, with delayed flights permitted until 23:30. Nothing scheduled before 06:00.

Published lanes that carry the AZ code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. ITA Airways appears in the schedule on 2 of them, and the one it flies most is Miami to Bogota at about 10.7 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Miami to Bogota, about 10.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,435 km.
Munich to Rome, about 10.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 729 km.

The countries the AZ code opens

Of the 25 countries and territories reached, 15 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 Italy with 21 airports on this code. The country desk for Italy sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Italy (21 airports), Spain (8 airports), United States (8 airports), Greece (7 airports), Germany (5 airports), France (4 airports), Brazil (2 airports), Canada (2 airports), Switzerland (2 airports), United Kingdom (2 airports).

Where to go next on the AZ network

Each of the 76 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 96 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 Rome (FCO), the route calculator with Dubai to FCO already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where ITA Airways fits in an OBC routing

ITA Airways is based in Italy and operates from Rome (FCO) as a member of SkyTeam. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA Airways regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on ITA Airways, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: Italy →Milan Rome Naples Turin Bologna Turin (TRN)

Markets in Europe:

Germany Austria Switzerland United Kingdom France Italy Spain Netherlands Belgium Ireland All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on ITA 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.

The full comparison, with costs →

Questions about flying ITA Airways

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

01Are you an agent or partner of ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA 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 ITA Airways rather than a cargo booking

People usually find this service when something has already gone wrong: a line has stopped, a sample is about to expire, a document has to be somewhere tomorrow that it cannot reach. It is worth understanding how the service works before that day rather than during 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.

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.

What that adds up to for Rome 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 Rome runs

Most people booking a courier for the first time want to know what the hours look like. This is the real sequence for a Rome assignment, the parts we control, the parts the airline controls, and the part where customs decides how the day goes.

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 Rome, 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 Italy will let it in without a permit we do not have, and whether it physically fits an aircraft cabin. Only then do you get a fixed price, and the price includes the ticket, the courier fee, transfers and a hotel where an overnight is unavoidable.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

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

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

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

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

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

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Rome (FCO), 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 Rome 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 Rome (FCO).

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 Rome (FCO) into an afternoon.

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 Italy wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Rome (FCO) is far too late.

Named consignee with authority

Someone in Rome 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.

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 Italy rather than a negotiating position.

Seal and photographic record

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

Tariff classification

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

What a Rome 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.

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

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.

Visas and positioning

If the routing to Italy 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.

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

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Rome (FCO) 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.

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

Dubai skyline at dusk — A dhow crossed to India on the monsoon. Today the crossing takes an afternoon, and a person still carries what matters most.
The story of the Gulf

What can go wrong on a Rome 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.

Something needs to continue past Rome

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Rome (FCO) 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.

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 Rome (FCO) 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 goods turn out to be regulated

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

The 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 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 consignee is unreachable

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

How jobs like this actually run

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

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.

Med-techICN → DXB

A surgical navigation unit needed before a scheduled theatre slot.

Factory dock15:30

Overnight non-stop23:55

Hospital loading bay05:40 +1

✓ In the theatre before the first case.

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

How it moves

A seat of its own, never out of sight

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

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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

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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 — A runway in the desert became the world’s busiest international airport in one generation.
The story of DXB

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Origin airport

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Shipment type

Ready date & time

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Company

What does the company do?

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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 ITA Airways 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 ITA Airways

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 ITA Airways

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on ITA Airways: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

ITA Airways in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the AZ code most often

How a courier reaches Rome from the Gulf

Night restrictions on the airports the AZ code uses

Published lanes that carry the AZ code

The countries the AZ code opens

Where to go next on the AZ network

Where ITA Airways 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 ITA Airways

01Are you an agent or partner of ITA Airways?

02Will my consignment definitely fly ITA Airways?

03How much can a courier carry on ITA Airways?

04Can I fly as a courier on ITA Airways?

Need a routing that uses ITA Airways?

Why a courier on ITA Airways rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Rome 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 Rome goes

Commercial invoice

Certificates and permits

Named consignee with authority

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Seal and photographic record

Tariff classification

What a Rome courier actually costs, and why

What is always included

Weekends, nights and public holidays

Visas and positioning

Whether the courier returns immediately

The ground legs at both ends

Regulatory profile of the goods

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

Something needs to continue past Rome

Customs asks a question

The goods turn out to be regulated

The consignment is larger than described

The connection is missed

The consignee is unreachable

More questions about carrying a consignment on ITA Airways

01How quickly can a courier leave for Rome?

02What do you need from me to start?

03Can I speak to a person during the journey?

04What cannot travel with a courier?

05Is the consignment insured?

06What happens if the flight is cancelled?

07Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

08How is delivery proven?

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