The reason there is a page for each country rather than one page for all of them is that the answer really is different in each. A courier leaving Reykjavik and a courier leaving Riyadh are not doing the same job with a different accent. The gateways are different, the sector lengths are different, the connections are different, and what the return leg can be made to do is different too.
44 countries, one question each
Fly from where you already live
The desk is in Dubai and it books flights every week out of airports that are nowhere near it. Pick the country you hold a passport for and read what the work looks like from there: which airport you would leave from, what that airport actually flies to, and what happens to the days between the outbound and the return.
Freelance, per assignment, and the ticket is booked by the desk
What these pages are
An on board courier carries one consignment in the cabin, as a passenger, and hands it over against a signature at the other end. The desk books and pays the flight. Couriers are freelancers who accept or decline each assignment, one at a time.
Every route, count and flight time on these pages is read out of the same scheduled route datthe rest of the site runs on. Nothing on them is a projection.
Fly from where you already live: when does it have to be there?One tap starts the quote. A dispatcher answers within 15 minutes, day or night.
Firm quote in 15 minutes
Fly from where you already live: 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
Choose your country
Northern Europe
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden
Western Europe
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Southern Europe
Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain
Central and eastern Europe
Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia
North America
Asia and the Pacific
Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan
The Gulf and the eastern Mediterranean
Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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 Fly from where you already live
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.
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 Fly from where you already live 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 citiesThe 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 fallbackAbu 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 Fly from where you already live is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.
US preclearance at AUHThe desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at Fly from where you already live first, at a fare the quote can carry.
Fly from where you already live: 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.