One trip, one consignment, one handover. No round, no van, no warehouse. The consignment is sealed before you take it, it stays in the cabin from BRU onwards, and it is signed for by a named person at the far end. From Genk the trip begins with 1 hour 1 minutes of road to Brussels.
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On Board Courier, Genk
Urgent consignments leave Genk the way passengers do: in the cabin, with a person. BRU is 1 hour 1 minutes from the city and the desk pays for the seat.
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 inGenk, Flanders
Nearest gateBRU · Brussels
Drive to the aircraft90 km · 1 hour 1 minutes
Nonstop from BRU193 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
A trip out of Genk has four fixed points: the collection, the 1 hour 1 minutes drive to BRU, the sector itself and the signature at the far end. The Gulf sector out of BRU is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Everything between them is arranged by the desk and confirmed to you in writing.
Getting to the aircraft from Genk
The drive is the honest half of this work. Genk to Brussels is 90 km and about 1 hour 1 minutes, and an assignment is planned backwards from the bag drop rather than from the departure.
1 hour 1 minutes of driving is comfortable for a same day flight provided the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most calls do. A cancellation at BRU is not the end of an assignment from Genk, because EIN is 1 hour 4 minutes out with 74 nonstop destinations of its own.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRU | Brussels | 90 km | 1 hour 1 minutes | 193 |
| EIN | Eindhoven | 73 km | 1 hour 4 minutes | 74 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf | 118 km | 1 hour 29 minutes | 176 |
| CRL | Brussels South Charleroi | 129 km | 1 hour 30 minutes | 127 |
Genk is a city of 64,000 people in Flanders, 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.
What BRU reaches without a change
This is the departure board a courier in Genk works from: 193 nonstop destinations out of BRU, 76 operating carriers, and average daily frequencies taken from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 11 departures a day | 5 operators: Brussels Airlines, Ryanair, Air Europa |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 11 departures a day | 4 operators: Brussels Airlines, Ryanair, Vueling |
| ALC | Alicante | Alicante | about 8 departures a day | 4 operators: Brussels Airlines, Vueling, Transavia |
| AGP | Málaga | Málaga | about 8 departures a day | 5 operators: Brussels Airlines, Ryanair, Vueling |
| FCO | Rome | Rome Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino | about 8 departures a day | 4 operators: Brussels Airlines, Ryanair, easyJet |
| CPH | Copenhagen | Copenhagen Kastrup | about 7 departures a day | 3 operators: Brussels Airlines, SAS |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Brussels Airlines |
| VIE | Vienna | Vienna Schwechat | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines |
| GVA | Geneva | Geneva Cointrin | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Brussels Airlines, easyJet |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: Brussels Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Genk can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 297 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
The industry inside this catchment
Why consignments move at short notice around Genk is easier to show than to argue. The sites below are public industrial geography inside the BRU catchment.
- imec, Leuven. Semiconductor research and pilot lines. Research samples with review dates that do not move. It sits on BRU, which is 1 hour 1 minutes from Genk by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
- Johnson and Johnson, Beerse and Leiden. Pharmaceutical research and vaccine production. Two low country sites, two gates. It sits on BRU, which is 1 hour 1 minutes from Genk by road, and the sector is pharma.
- ASML, Veldhoven. Lithography systems, including the only extreme ultraviolet machines in production. A single reticle or optic can hold up a fab on another continent. It sits on EIN, which is 1 hour 4 minutes from Genk by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
Why a courier in Genk is useful to the desk
A courier in Genk shortens the chain by one link. Without one, an urgent consignment out of Flanders has to be trucked to a hub or flown out with somebody sent from elsewhere. With one, it is 1 hour 1 minutes of driving and a boarding pass.
Since the desk sits in Dubai, this is the sector that matters most out of Genk. From Genk the Gulf is a single sector: BRU and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 35m in the air over 5,150 km, and it means a consignment can leave Genk in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Belgium list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Genk
Hasselt12 km away, BRU in 56 minutesLiege37 km away, CRL in 59 minutesVerviers49 km away, CRL in 1 hour 20 minutesLeuven57 km away, BRU in 20 minutesNamur71 km away, CRL in 30 minutesMechelen72 km away, BRU in 21 minutesBrussels82 km away, BRU in 21 minutesAntwerp82 km away, BRU in 38 minutesCharleroi97 km away, CRL in 8 minutesSint-Niklaas97 km away, BRU in 49 minutesAalst103 km away, BRU in 34 minutesLa Louvière107 km away, CRL in 22 minutes
All 21 Belgium cities are listed on the Belgium 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 BRU and the other airports listed above, between Belgium 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 1 minutes drive to BRU. 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 BRU, 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 Genk list
01How far is Genk from BRU?
About 1 hour 1 minutes, over 90 km of measured driving route. Where an early departure makes that uncomfortable, the desk books a room near BRU the night before instead.
02What can I reach from Genk without a change of aircraft?
BRU serves 193 airports nonstop across 71 countries with 76 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Genk can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 297 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Genk to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Genk the Gulf is a single sector: BRU and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 35m in the air over 5,150 km, and it means a consignment can leave Genk 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. If the desk only wanted people in Dubai it would not keep a Genk list at all, and this page would not exist.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no application fee and no placement fee for the Genk list. The Academy costs AED 199 once and is returned with the fee for your first completed assignment out of BRU.
06How is my fee agreed?
A courier in Genk sees the number first. The routing out of BRU, the timings and the fee come in one written offer, and accepting it is a decision you make in Genk.
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