UAEICN

TW · hub Seoul (ICN) · independent

Hand carry on T'way Air

T'way Air flies from Seoul (ICN) in South Korea. 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.

Ask for a routing All airlines we fly

RouteUAE → ICN

Typical flying time8h 28m

Distance≈6,750 km

Typical outcomeNext-Morning

One person beats a parcel networkon T& 39 way Air

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 T& 39 way Air, 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 Seoul (ICN) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (daily or better)

AUHEtihad (daily)

DOHQatar Airways (daily)

DXBKorean Air (several weekly)

Alternative gateways nearby

GMPGimpo International, Seoul · ≈30 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 T& 39 way Air

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 T& 39 way Air 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 T& 39 way Air 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 T& 39 way Air first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on T& 39 way Air: 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

T'way Air 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 TW code that yields 51 city pairs across 41 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.

41airports on this carrier

20countries and territories reached

51scheduled city pairs held

236average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the TW code on 51 city pairs, reaching 41 airports in 20 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by T'way Air 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. 80.5 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Barcelona (BCN) to Seoul (ICN) at about 9,594 km, and the shortest is Jeju City (CJU) to Gwangju (KWJ) at about 182 km. 9 of the 51 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 Seoul (ICN), on 23 of them, which is 45.1 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Jeju City (CJU) to Daegu-si (TAE) at about 19.4 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 1.2 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Seoul (ICN), 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. 19 of the 51 pairs run four or more times a day and 8 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 Seoul (ICN) the code leans on Jeju City (CJU) on 8, Busan-si (PUS) on 7, Osaka (KIX) on 6 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the TW code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Jeju City CJU	Daegu-si TAE	South Korea	19.4	331	plan this
Jeju City CJU	Gwangju KWJ	South Korea	19.4	182	plan this
Seoul-si GMP	Busan-si PUS	South Korea	19.4	327	plan this
Osaka KIX	Busan-si PUS	South Korea	13.7	582	the pair page
Fukuoka FUK	Busan-si PUS	South Korea	13.4	225	the pair page
Seoul-si GMP	Osaka KIX	Japan	11.5	836	plan this
Seoul ICN	Singapore SIN	Singapore	10.3	4,627	the pair page
Tokyo NRT	Busan-si PUS	South Korea	8.9	1,038	the pair page
Seoul ICN	Duong Dong PQC	Vietnam	8.1	3,773	plan this
Seoul ICN	Ulaan Baatar UBN	Mongolia	8	1,957	plan this
Seoul ICN	Naha OKA	Japan	6.9	1,259	plan this
Seoul ICN	Shenyang SHE	China	6.9	529	plan this

The 12 sectors the TW code appears on most often, out of 51. 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 Seoul from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no TW 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 Seoul (ICN), and T'way Air carries the second.

UAE gateway	Operated by	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Emirates	1.4	6,729	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Etihad Airways	0.1	6,837	plan this

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

Night restrictions on the airports the TW 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. 9 of the 41 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.

Seoul (ICN), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Tokyo (NRT), night restrictions. Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Taipei (TPE), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Singapore (SIN), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
Sydney (SYD), curfew. Curfew between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Jet departures are not permitted in that window and a late departure waits until morning.

Published lanes that carry the TW code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. T'way Air appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Seoul to Frankfurt at about 4.4 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Seoul to Frankfurt, about 4.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 8,545 km.

The countries the TW code opens

Of the 20 countries and territories reached, 14 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 Japan with 7 airports on this code. The country desk for South Korea sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Japan (7 airports), South Korea (7 airports), China (5 airports), Taiwan (4 airports), Vietnam (2 airports), Indonesia (2 airports), Macau (1 airports), Germany (1 airports), Canada (1 airports), Singapore (1 airports).

Where to go next on the TW network

Each of the 41 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 51 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 Seoul (ICN), the route calculator with Dubai to ICN already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where T'way Air fits in an OBC routing

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

Country page: South Korea →Seoul Busan Busan (PUS)

Markets in Asia-Pacific:

China Hong Kong SAR Japan South Korea Taiwan Singapore Malaysia Thailand Vietnam Indonesia All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on T'way Air 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 T'way Air

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

01Are you an agent or partner of T'way Air?

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 T'way Air?

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 T'way Air?

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 T'way Air?

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 T'way Air?

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

Request a quote → Browse countries

Why a courier on T'way Air 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.

It is also worth saying what the service does not fix. It does not make a permit appear, it does not make a sanctioned party acceptable, and it does not make an undeclared battery legal. Where those are the problem, a courier only makes the problem arrive faster, which is why the screening happens before the quote.

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.

Applied to Seoul, 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 Seoul 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 Seoul 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

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 Seoul.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether South Korea 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

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

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

The courier collects in person, checks the goods against the description, seals the packaging with a numbered tamper-evident seal and photographs it. The commercial invoice, packing list and any permit travel with the courier, and a copy reaches our operations desk and the consignee in Seoul at the same moment.

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 Seoul (ICN).

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

At Seoul (ICN) 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 Seoul 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 Seoul (ICN).

Legalisation and attestation

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

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 South Korea wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Seoul (ICN) is far too late.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter South Korea temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

Proforma invoice for non-sales

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

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter South Korea at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Seoul (ICN) into an afternoon.

What a Seoul 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.

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.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Seoul 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.

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

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.

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.

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 Seoul quote.

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

Dubai skyline at dusk — The word “impossible” is not in the leaders’ dictionaries.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

What can go wrong on a Seoul 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 Seoul

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Seoul (ICN) 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 Seoul, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

How jobs like this actually run

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

AutomotiveSTR → DXB

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

Plant pickup09:40

Via FRA13:30

Test bench23:55

✓ Rig time kept, no week lost to freight.

AOGDXB → FRA

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

Collected14:10

Wheels up18:15

At the MRO line23:40

✓ Aircraft released for the morning wave.

SemiconductorSHJ → TPE

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

Cleanroom pickup11:20

Via a same-day connection14:45

Fab dock06:50 +1

✓ Line stoppage avoided.

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

How it moves

A desk that never sleeps

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

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

Join the OBC network now → See the open position What does an OBC earn?

Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

Departure hub

Destination airport

What is travelling? Weight: 5 kg More than 23 kg, second courier Service

How urgent?

Indicative total ,

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 — Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, three departure boards, one operations desk watching them all.
OnBoard Courier, UAE

Get a quote for this route

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.

Request a quote

Answered by a person, 24/7. No commitment. One form, one reply.

Origin airport

Destination airport

Shipment type

Ready date & time

Who is booking

Company

What does the company do?

Your name

Phone

Email address

What is in the consignment?

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

Confidential · no commitment · 24/7 availability

I need to send something

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

Book a shipment → Client login

I want to fly as a courier

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

Apply as an OBC → See the open position

Where to go from here

Hand carry on T'way Air 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 T& 39 way Air

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 T& 39 way Air

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on T& 39 way Air: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

T'way Air in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the TW code most often

How a courier reaches Seoul from the Gulf

Night restrictions on the airports the TW code uses

Published lanes that carry the TW code

The countries the TW code opens

Where to go next on the TW network

Where T'way Air 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 T'way Air

01Are you an agent or partner of T'way Air?

02Will my consignment definitely fly T'way Air?

03How much can a courier carry on T'way Air?

04Can I fly as a courier on T'way Air?

Need a routing that uses T'way Air?

Why a courier on T'way Air rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Seoul 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 Seoul goes

Legalisation and attestation

Certificates and permits

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Tariff classification

Commercial invoice

What a Seoul courier actually costs, and why

Regulatory profile of the goods

Distance and sector count

Whether the courier returns immediately

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Weekends, nights and public holidays

How much notice you give us

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

Something needs to continue past Seoul

The goods turn out to be regulated

The connection is missed

Weather or airspace closes the route

The declared value is challenged

The flight is cancelled

More questions about carrying a consignment on T'way Air

01Can you collect outside the UAE?

02Do you handle customs at Seoul (ICN)?

03Are you an airline?

04Can a courier carry more than one consignment?

05Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

06How is delivery proven?

07How quickly can a courier leave for Seoul?

08What happens if the flight is cancelled?

How jobs like this actually run

A desk that never sleeps

Join the OBC network, become an on board courier

Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

Get a quote for this route

Request a quote

I need to send something

I want to fly as a courier