Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is SZG. The desk holds a consignment that is late, valuable or perishable, finds the first departure that fits, and then looks for a courier who can be at the counter in time. Steyr is 1 hour 43 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 35 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Steyr
If you are in Steyr you are 1 hour 43 minutes from Salzburg and 35 scheduled nonstop destinations. That is the whole starting qualification. Freelance, per assignment, ticket paid.
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 inSteyr, Upper Austria
Nearest gateSZG · Salzburg
Drive to the aircraft139 km · 1 hour 43 minutes
Nonstop from SZG35 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
There is no roster and no shift on the Steyr list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 139 km to SZG, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of SZG is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Steyr
The ground leg from Steyr is 139 km to Salzburg, about 1 hour 43 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Steyr it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
139 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 1 hour 43 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by SZG the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Steyr has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. VIE at 2 hours 14 minutes adds 200 nonstop destinations to the 35 at SZG.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SZG | Salzburg | 139 km | 1 hour 43 minutes | 35 |
| VIE | Vienna Schwechat | 191 km | 2 hours 14 minutes | 200 |
Steyr is a city of 38,000 people in Upper Austria, and the clock there runs 2 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 3 in winter. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Steyr may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What SZG reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Salzburg: 35 nonstop destinations, 18 countries, 14 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Lufthansa |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Eurowings |
| DUS | Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Eurowings |
| HAM | Hamburg | Hamburg | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Eurowings |
| IST | Istanbul | Istanbul | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Turkish Airlines |
| TLV | Tel Aviv Yafo | Tel Aviv Yafo Ben Gurion | about one departure a day | 2 operators: EL AL, Israir |
| LGW | London | London Gatwick | about one departure a day | 1 operator: British Airways |
| STN | London | London Stansted | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| AYT | Antalya | Antalya | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator |
| BER | Berlin | Berlin Brandenburg | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: Eurowings |
Counting every airport a courier in Steyr can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 200 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 Steyr
The site holds no public industrial map for SZG, so this section says less rather than guessing. Consignments out of Steyr are typically documents, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Steyr is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Steyr is inside one. Steyr sits inside the catchment of Salzburg, 139 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from SZG. From Steyr the Gulf is a single sector: SZG and DXB are joined nonstop, about 4 departures a week, flown by flydubai. That is roughly 5h 45m in the air over 4,450 km, and it means a consignment can leave Steyr in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Austria list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Steyr
Traun24 km away, SZG in 1 hour 22 minutesLinz31 km away, SZG in 1 hour 33 minutesWels32 km away, SZG in 1 hour 18 minutesAmstetten35 km away, VIE in 1 hour 47 minutesSankt Pölten92 km away, VIE in 1 hour 10 minutesSalzburg106 km away, SZG in 9 minutesGraz133 km away, GRZ in 15 minutesBaden135 km away, VIE in 43 minutesSaalfelden am Steinernen Meer136 km away, SZG in 1 hour 5 minutesWolfsberg137 km away, GRZ in 56 minutesWiener Neustadt137 km away, VIE in 55 minutesStockerau138 km away, VIE in 44 minutes
All 20 Austria cities are listed on the Austria 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 SZG and the other airports listed above, between Austria 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 43 minutes drive to SZG. 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 SZG, 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 Steyr list
01How far is Steyr from SZG?
1 hour 43 minutes and 139 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Steyr rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Steyr without a change of aircraft?
SZG serves 35 airports nonstop across 18 countries with 14 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Steyr can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 200 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Steyr to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Steyr the Gulf is a single sector: SZG and DXB are joined nonstop, about 4 departures a week, flown by flydubai. That is roughly 5h 45m in the air over 4,450 km, and it means a consignment can leave Steyr in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
04Do I have to live in the UAE to be on this list?
No. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Steyr. The Steyr list exists because somebody has to be near SZG when a consignment appears in Upper Austria.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Steyr and free to be screened. The one charge anywhere in the process is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and refunded on top of your first assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
The offer, the routing out of SZG and the fee arrive together. You reply yes or no, and the yes is the agreement for that single trip out of SZG.
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