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Hand carry on Nepal Airlines

Nepal Airlines flies from Kathmandu (KTM) in Nepal. We book it when it has the next suitable departure, being independent of every alliance is what lets us combine it with any other carrier on one routing.

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RouteUAE → KTM
Typical flying time4h 01m
Distance≈3,000 km
Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel networkon Nepal Airlines

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 Nepal Airlines, same day or next morning
Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.
Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5
0h24h48h72h96h+

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Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

  • One named courier from collection to signature
  • Customs cleared in person on arrival
  • Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Kathmandu (KTM) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

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

Alternative gateways nearby

PATJay Prakash Narayan, Patna · ≈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 Nepal Airlines

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 Nepal Airlines 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 Nepal Airlines 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 Nepal Airlines first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on Nepal Airlines: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

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Nepal Airlines 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 RA code that yields 16 city pairs across 18 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.

18airports on this carrier
11countries and territories reached
16scheduled city pairs held
37average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the RA code on 16 city pairs, reaching 18 airports in 11 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Nepal Airlines 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. 100 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the carrier appears on no other block in this sample.

01

The longest sector held for the carrier is Kathmandu (KTM) to Tokyo (NRT) at about 5,213 km, and the shortest is Kathmandu (KTM) to Phaplu (PPL) at about 122 km. 6 of the pairs are under 1,500 km and 1 run past 5,000 km, a medium haul shape that usually joins a Gulf departure at a single interchange. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Kathmandu (KTM), on 15 of them, which is 93.8 per cent of everything held under this code.

02

The thickest sector under the code is New Delhi (DEL) to Kathmandu (KTM) at about 12 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 2 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 3 of the 16 pairs run four or more times a day and 7 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 Kathmandu (KTM) the code leans on Bangkok (BKK) on 1, Bangalore (BLR) on 1, Mumbai (BOM) on 1 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the RA code most often

FromToCountryFlights a daykmOpen it
New Delhi DELKathmandu KTMNepal12815the pair page
Dubai DXBKathmandu KTMNepal62,991the pair page
Doha DOHKathmandu KTMNepal4.73,360the pair page
Kathmandu KTMKuala Lumpur KULMalaysia3.43,273the pair page
Bangkok BKKKathmandu KTMNepal2.62,230the pair page
Guangzhou CANKathmandu KTMNepal22,837the pair page
Mumbai BOMKathmandu KTMNepal1.31,592the pair page
Hong Kong HKGKathmandu KTMNepal1.32,932the pair page
Novosibirsk OVBTomsk TOFRussia1.2221plan this
Ad Dammam DMMKathmandu KTMNepal0.93,511the pair page
Kathmandu KTMTokyo NRTJapan0.65,213the pair page
Bangalore BLRKathmandu KTMNepal0.41,797the pair page

The 12 sectors the RA code appears on most often, out of 16. 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 RA meets the UAE gateways

Nepal Airlines is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 1 pairs under this code touching Dubai (DXB), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.

UAE airportToCountryFlights a daykmOpen it
Dubai DXBKathmandu KTMNepal62,991plan this

Night restrictions on the airports the RA code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 4 of the 18 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.

  • Hong Kong (HKG), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to Europe and the Gulf are routine.
  • 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.
  • Tokyo (NRT), night restrictions. Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.

Published lanes the RA code can carry half of

None of the 346 lanes the site publishes is flown end to end under this code. These 131 are the ones it touches at one end, which is how a routing gets built when no single carrier covers the whole distance: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg and this one finishes it. The lane index holds the rest.

The countries the RA code opens

Of the 11 countries and territories reached, 8 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 Nepal with 5 airports on this code. The country desk for Nepal sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Nepal (5 airports), India (3 airports), Russia (2 airports), Hong Kong (1 airports), China (1 airports), Saudi Arabia (1 airports), United Arab Emirates (1 airports), Qatar (1 airports), Malaysia (1 airports), Thailand (1 airports).

Where to go next on the RA network

Each of the 18 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 16 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 Kathmandu (KTM), the route calculator with Dubai to KTM already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where Nepal Airlines fits in an OBC routing

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

Country page: Nepal →Kathmandu

Markets in South Asia:

IndiaPakistanBangladeshSri LankaNepalMaldivesAll countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Nepal Airlines or any other carrier, this is what a courier changes compared with the hold of the same aircraft.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

  • Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
  • One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
  • Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
  • No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
  • Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
  • Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
  • Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
  • Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
  • A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

  • Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
  • Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
  • Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
  • Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
  • Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
  • Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
  • Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
  • Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
  • Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

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Questions about flying Nepal Airlines

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

01Are you an agent or partner of Nepal Airlines?

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 Nepal Airlines?

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 Nepal Airlines?

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 Nepal Airlines?

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.

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Why a courier on Nepal Airlines rather than a cargo booking

Every logistics option is a trade between cost, speed and control. Sea freight gives up speed. Air cargo gives up control. A charter gives up cost. An on board courier is the only option that keeps speed and control and pays for them with the price of a passenger ticket, which is why it exists at all.

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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.

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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.

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Applied to Kathmandu, 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 Kathmandu runs

A Kathmandu 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

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

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether Nepal 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 Kathmandu, 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

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 Kathmandu (KTM), and it is entirely preventable.

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 Kathmandu 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 Kathmandu (KTM), 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 Kathmandu 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 Kathmandu (KTM).

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter Nepal 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 Kathmandu 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 Nepal 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 Nepal rather than a negotiating position.

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in Nepal 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.

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.

What a Kathmandu 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.

Visas and positioning

If the routing to Nepal 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.

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

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Kathmandu 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 Kathmandu 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.

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 Nepal 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 Kathmandu 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 Kathmandu

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Kathmandu (KTM) 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 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 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.

Weather or airspace closes the route

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

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

More questions about carrying a consignment on Nepal Airlines

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

01What happens if the flight is cancelled?

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

02Do you handle customs at Kathmandu (KTM)?

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

03How quickly can a courier leave for Kathmandu?

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.

04Can you collect outside the UAE?

Yes. Third-country assignments, collect in one country, deliver in another, are a normal part of the work, and they are routed through the fastest connection rather than automatically through Dubai. Where a courier already in the region can take it, that is what happens.

05What do you need from me to start?

A description of the goods, the declared value, the collection address, the delivery address in Kathmandu 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.

06How 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 Kathmandu, not generated by a depot three hours later.

07Can 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.

08Does 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 Kathmandu. If something genuinely cannot travel in a cabin, we will tell you that and discuss freight or a charter instead of pretending.

From the operations desk

How jobs like this actually run

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

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.
BankingZRH → DXB

Instruments that required a named carrier and a witnessed handover.

Vault release10:05
Non-stop13:40
Counter-signed22:10
✓ Both signatures on one timeline.
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.

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

How it moves

Collected by hand, not by network

A named courier picks up at your door, the clock starts the moment you confirm.

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Three ways the desk can move on Nepal Airlines

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

The lean one

Airport to airport

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

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

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What most clients book

Door to door

  • Collection at your address, sealed and photographed
  • One named courier from that door to the signature
  • Customs cleared in person on arrival, duties handled as agreed
  • Proof of delivery with signature, identity check and photograph

The full chain, one price, one person answerable for it.

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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.

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