The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 1 hour 2 minutes from AEP. Everything else, the booking out of AEP, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Zárate
Hand carry work from Zárate and the surrounding Buenos Aires area. Departures run through Jorge Newbery Airfield, 86 km by road, on a list you join once and stay on.
OnBoard Courier is a United Arab Emirates company, contracted by ICSL FZE and run from Dubai. A city named on this site is a place we cover and route through, not a separate company in that city. Assignments are contracted under UAE law, and the terms are published in full under legal and policies.
Based inZárate, Buenos Aires
Nearest gateAEP · Buenos Aires
Drive to the aircraft86 km · 1 hour 2 minutes
Nonstop from AEP57 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 900 to 2,600
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Applying is free. Freelance · self-employed ·
posted 7 September 2026 · open until 7 March 2027
What the work pays
The fee for an assignment is agreed with you in writing before you accept it. These are the figures the site publishes, and what the desk covers on top of them.
Top published feeAED 2,000The highest fee the site shows for a single assignment: sealed medical samples in a cooled case, Dubai to Singapore.
Published band, per assignmentAED 900 to 2,600A document pouch to London is AED 1,200, an aircraft part to Frankfurt AED 1,500, an escorted watch on the Berlin lane AED 1,800.
What the flight costs youAED 0The desk books and pays the ticket, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never fronts the fare.
The one payment you makeAED 199, returnedThe Academy, paid once. It comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. Applying itself is free.
Fees vary with the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate, so the desk quotes each assignment individually rather than pretending one number fits every trip. You are self-employed and there is no minimum: accept or decline whatever you like, and declining costs you nothing. Earnings are paid per delivery by bank transfer, they appear in your courier portal, and you can request a payout once the balance reaches AED 200. Apply and see the flight board.
You fly as a passengerOne consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature. No warehouse, no van, no round.
The desk books and pays the ticketFlight, transfers and, where the routing needs it, a hotel are booked before you leave for the airport.
Paid per assignmentA fee agreed in writing before you accept, paid to your bank account after the signature. Applying is free.
How to start, in four steps
1
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
2
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
3
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
4
Fly, hand over, get paid
Collect, board, clear customs in person, hand over against signature, and the fee is paid to your account.
The assignment
Some trips out of Zárate are same day returns and some put you in a hotel while a return consignment is prepared. The offer says which before you accept it. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of GRU, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive to AEP is 1 hour 2 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Zárate
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Zárate. The nearest usable gate is AEP at 1 hour 2 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
The 1 hour 2 minutes between Zárate and AEP is the ordinary shape of this work: long enough to plan, short enough to say yes to a flight tonight. A second airport is within reach of Zárate: Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini at 1 hour 24 minutes, with 58 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP | Jorge Newbery Airfield | 86 km | 1 hour 2 minutes | 57 |
| EZE | Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini | 110 km | 1 hour 24 minutes | 58 |
Zárate is a city of 99,000 people in Buenos Aires, and the clock there runs 7 hours behind the Emirates all year. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
What AEP reaches without a change
The only fact about AEP that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 57 airports, 8 countries, 11 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COR | Córdoba | Córdoba Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella | about 16 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
| BRC | San Carlos de Bariloche | San Carlos de Bariloche | about 15 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
| GRU | São Paulo | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | about 14 departures a day | 4 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, GOL, LATAM |
| SCL | Santiago | Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez | about 13 departures a day | 5 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART, LATAM |
| MDZ | Mendoza | Mendoza El Plumerillo | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
| IGR | Puerto Iguazú | Puerto Iguazú Cataratas Del Iguazú | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
| NQN | Neuquén | Neuquén Presidente Peron | about 10 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | about 9 departures a day | 4 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART, GOL |
| SLA | Salta | Salta Martin Miguel De Guemes | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
| TUC | Tucumán | Tucumán Teniente Benjamin Matienzo | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: Aerolineas Argentinas, JetSMART |
Counting every airport a courier in Zárate can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 82 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
What moves out of Zárate
No industrial register exists here for Zárate and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 99,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Zárate is useful to the desk
Being close to AEP is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Zárate measures 1 hour 2 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Zárate the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Zárate the best single change is São Paulo (GRU), and GRU to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 18h 56m gate to gate, so an assignment between Zárate and the Emirates is planned as a connecting itinerary and the desk books the whole thing on one ticket.
The nearest other cities on the Argentina list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Zárate
Pilar42 km away, AEP in 37 minutesLuján53 km away, AEP in 1 hour 4 minutesMerlo69 km away, EZE in 39 minutesBuenos Aires83 km away, AEP in 13 minutesEzeiza96 km away, EZE in 16 minutesSan Vicente117 km away, EZE in 36 minutesGualeguaychú130 km away, AEP in 2 hours 35 minutesLa Plata134 km away, AEP in 55 minutesSan Nicolás de los Arroyos139 km away, AEP in 2 hours 33 minutesPergamino145 km away, AEP in 2 hours 32 minutesJunín185 km away, AEP in 3 hours 14 minutesRosario197 km away, AEP in 3 hours 14 minutes
All 21 Argentina cities are listed on the Argentina courier desk, which stays the general application for the country.
The engagement, and who we are looking for
The engagement
- Type: freelance, self-employed. You are an independent courier accepting individual assignments, not an employee, and you decide which ones you take.
- Where it runs: assignments are flown out of AEP and the other airports listed above, between Argentina and wherever the consignment is going, with the return leg agreed per mission.
- Hours: variable. An assignment is a single trip, not a shift or a roster.
- How you are paid: a fee per completed assignment, agreed in writing before you accept it. The fees published on this site run from AED 1,200 for a document pouch to AED 2,000 for a cooled medical consignment, and the figure for your assignment reflects the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate.
- What the desk pays: the flight, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never pays for the ticket and never fronts the fare.
- Applying is free. No payment is required to apply, to be screened or to be placed on the courier list. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and is returned in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier ever makes to us.
What we look for
- A passport with comfortable remaining validity and free pages, and the right to enter the country on the routing. The desk checks the visa position for your specific passport before any assignment is offered.
- A clean background check and a willingness to be verified. Couriers carry other people’s property.
- Availability at short notice, and a realistic view of the 1 hour 2 minutes drive to AEP. Most assignments are confirmed hours, not days, before departure.
- Presentable, calm and articulate at a customs counter. The consignment is only as smooth as the person carrying it.
- A working phone, reachable on the number you gave us, for the whole assignment.
What we provide
- The ticket. Always. A courier never pays for the flight and never fronts the fare.
- The paperwork, prepared before you reach AEP, and a named contact at the desk on both ends.
- A briefing on the consignment, the consignee and what the customs position at the far end looks like.
- A fee per completed assignment, agreed with you in advance and paid by bank transfer after the handover.
Questions about the Zárate list
01How far is Zárate from AEP?
By road it is 86 km and about 1 hour 2 minutes from the centre of Zárate to Jorge Newbery Airfield. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Zárate against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Zárate without a change of aircraft?
AEP serves 57 airports nonstop across 8 countries with 11 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Zárate can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 82 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Zárate to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Zárate the best single change is São Paulo (GRU), and GRU to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 18h 56m gate to gate, so an assignment between Zárate and the Emirates is planned as a connecting itinerary and the desk books the whole thing on one ticket.
04Do I have to live in the UAE to be on this list?
No, and that is the point of posting Zárate separately. The desk needs people near AEP as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Zárate and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Zárate list and no deposit of any kind. The Academy is AED 199 once, and that AED 199 is added back on top of what you are paid for your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
The desk sends the routing, the timing and the fee for that specific assignment in writing. You accept or decline it. Nothing is deducted or charged without your written agreement.
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