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UAEMXP

NO · hub Milan (MXP) · independent

Hand carry on Neos

Neos flies from Milan (MXP) in Italy. 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.

RouteUAE → MXP
Typical flying time6h 03m
Distance≈4,700 km
Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon Neos

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 Neos, 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 Milan (MXP) 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

LINMilan Linate, Milan · ≈45 km straight-line · connection gateway
BGYOrio al Serio Bergamo, Bergamo · ≈75 km straight-line · connection gateway
TRNTurin Airport, Turin · ≈95 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 Neos

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

on Neos: 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.

OnBoard Courier Neos 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 NO code that yields 145 city pairs across 68 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.

68airports on this carrier
31countries and territories reached
145scheduled city pairs held
275average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the NO code on 145 city pairs, reaching 68 airports in 31 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by OnBoard Courier Neos 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. 55.9 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on African time zones.

01

The longest sector held for the carrier is Cancún (CUN) to Rome (FCO) at about 9,184 km, and the shortest is Gran Canaria Island (LPA) to Tenerife Island (TFS) at about 117 km. 20 of the 145 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 Milan (MXP), on 47 of them, which is 32.4 per cent of everything held under this code.

02

The thickest sector under the code is Catania (CTA) to Rome (FCO) at about 22 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 1.1 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Milan (MXP), 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. 93 of the 145 pairs run once a day or less and only 26 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 Milan (MXP) the code leans on Rome (FCO) on 27, Verona (VRN) on 18, Bologna (BLQ) on 13 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the NO code most often

FromToCountryFlights a daykmOpen it
Catania CTARome FCOItaly22539plan this
Catania CTAMilan MXPItaly12.71,049plan this
Arusha JROZanzibar ZNZTanzania11.9391plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPATenerife Island TFSSpain11.7117the pair page
Paris CDGMilan MXPItaly11598the pair page
Paphos PFOTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael8.3375the pair page
Bari BRIRome FCOItaly8.1383plan this
Rome FCOIbiza Town IBZSpain8977plan this
Milan MXPNápoli NAPItaly8693plan this
Cairo CAISharm el Sheikh SSHEgypt6.9376the pair page
Athens ATHMilan MXPItaly6.31,520the pair page
Mombasa MBAZanzibar ZNZTanzania5.9247plan this
Cairo CAIMilan MXPItaly5.62,617the pair page
Ibiza Town IBZMilan MXPItaly5.4964plan this
Milan MXPTel Aviv Yafo TLVIsrael5.42,706the pair page
Milan MXPOlbia OLBItaly5.3530plan this

The 16 sectors the NO code appears on most often, out of 145. 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 Milan from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no NO 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 Milan (MXP), and OnBoard Courier Neos carries the second.

UAE gatewayOperated byFlights a daykmOpen it
Dubai DXBEmirates3.34,707plan this
Abu Dhabi AUHEtihad Airways1.74,714plan this

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

Night restrictions on the airports the NO 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. 2 of the 68 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.

  • Hamburg (HAM), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight.
  • Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.

Published lanes the NO code can carry half of

None of the 346 lanes the site publishes is flown end to end under this code. These 38 are the ones it touches at one end, which is how a routing gets built when no single carrier covers the whole distance: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg and this one finishes it. The lane index holds the rest.

  • Abu Dhabi to Milan, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Doha to Milan, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Dubai to Milan, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Milan to Frankfurt, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Milan to Hong Kong, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Milan to Silao, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Milan to Tokyo, joined at Milan (MXP), which this code reaches on 47 of its pairs.
  • Dubai to Rome, joined at Rome (FCO), which this code reaches on 27 of its pairs.

The countries the NO code opens

Of the 31 countries and territories reached, 23 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 15 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 (15 airports), Greece (10 airports), Spain (7 airports), Egypt (5 airports), Norway (2 airports), Cabo Verde (2 airports), Tunisia (2 airports), Tanzania (2 airports), United Kingdom (1 airports), Cyprus (1 airports).

Where to go next on the NO network

Each of the 68 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 145 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 Milan (MXP), the route calculator with Dubai to MXP already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where Neos fits in an OBC routing

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

Markets in Europe:

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Neos 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.

Questions about flying Neos

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

01Are you an agent or partner of Neos?

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 Neos?

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 Neos?

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 Neos?

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 Neos?

Send the two ends and the deadline. We will check the live schedule across every carrier and come back with the fastest realistic option.

Why a courier on Neos rather than a cargo booking

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

01

The economics are less strange than they look. A courier assignment costs roughly what a business-class ticket costs, plus a fee and the ground work at each end. Set against a stopped production line, a grounded aircraft, an expiring clinical sample or a tender that closes at noon, that number stops being the interesting part of the conversation very quickly.

02

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.

03

For Milan specifically, that means the useful conversation is not “how much” but “what exactly is in the box, and when does it have to be in whose hands”. Answer those two and everything else, the routing, the carrier, the airport, the paperwork, the price, follows in under an hour.

How an assignment routed over Milan runs

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

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

The first conversation is short and specific: contents, declared value, collection address, delivery address in Milan, 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

Assignment is not a raffle. The consignment's value, its regulatory profile and the destination decide who is offered it. For Milan, 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 Milan 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 Milan connects, the courier remains airside with it rather than clearing and re-entering.

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

At Milan (MXP) 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 Milan 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 Milan (MXP).

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to Italy can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

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 Milan (MXP) is far too late.

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.

Named consignee with authority

Someone in Milan 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.

Legalisation and attestation

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

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.

What a Milan 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.

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.

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.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Milan 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.

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 Milan quote.

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Anything beyond normal cabin baggage means a second seat, and occasionally two. An extra seat sounds dramatic until you compare it with a charter: it is an order of magnitude cheaper and it moves at the speed of a scheduled flight.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

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 Milan 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.

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 Milan (MXP) 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 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 consignee is unreachable

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

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

The courier is refused boarding

Almost always a document problem: a passport too close to expiry, a missing transit visa, a name on the ticket that does not match the passport. Every one of those is checked at assignment, and it is checked again before the courier leaves for the airport.

The connection is missed

This is why we build routings above the minimum connection time rather than at it. Where a connection is genuinely tight, the courier holds the consignment airside and takes the next available service rather than clearing into a country they were only passing through.

More questions about carrying a consignment on Neos

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

01How 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 Milan, not generated by a depot three hours later.

02What happens if the flight is cancelled?

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

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

04How quickly can a courier leave for Milan?

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.

05Can a courier carry more than one consignment?

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

06What do you need from me to start?

A description of the goods, the declared value, the collection address, the delivery address in Milan and the deadline. If anything in the box is regulated, batteries, biological material, liquids, anything requiring a permit, tell us at that first message rather than later.

07Are you an airline?

No. OnBoard Courier is a courier placement and brokerage business based in Dubai. We vet, train and insure couriers, screen consignments and buy ordinary passenger seats on scheduled flights. We operate no aircraft, hold no alliance membership and have no exclusive carrier contract, which is exactly what lets us put a courier on whichever airline departs next for Milan.

08Can I speak to a person during the journey?

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

From the operations desk

How jobs like this actually run

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

PharmaAUH → LHR

Validation samples at 2 to 8 °C for a London reference lab, data-logger sealed.

Cool-chain packed16:30
In the cabin21:05
Lab signature08:20 +1
✓ Chain of custody and temperature log unbroken.
MediaLHR → DXB

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

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

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

How it moves

A desk that never sleeps

24/7 operations in Dubai watching every leg, rebooking before you notice a delay.

Inside the aircraft cabin

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.

  • Flights paid
  • Fee per assignment
  • Assignments worldwide
  • You choose your dates
  • Training in our Academy

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.

Indicative total ,
Happy with the estimate? Send it, done.

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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Tell us what has to move and where it has to be. You get a fixed price and a departure time back, usually within 15 minutes, day or night.

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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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Where to go from here

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Where this page leads

Hand-picked next stops, every card is a live page, not a promise.

Three ways the desk can move on Neos

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

The lean one

Airport to airport

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

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

Price this for on Neos
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 Neos
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 Neos

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