The list is worked in order of who can reach the aircraft. A courier 2 hours 35 minutes from GIG is called before one who is three hours away, every time, because the consignment does not wait. That is the practical value of a Angra dos Reis address to this desk.
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On Board Courier, Angra dos Reis
Freelance on board courier assignments for Angra dos Reis. 52 nonstop destinations from GIG, 2 hours 35 minutes of driving to reach it, no charge to apply and no minimum commitment.
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 inAngra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro
Nearest gateGIG · Rio de Janeiro
Drive to the aircraft152 km · 2 hours 35 minutes
Nonstop from GIG52 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
The offer names the flight out of GIG, the hour you should leave Angra dos Reis and the fee, all before you commit to anything. The Gulf sector out of GIG is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. You accept in writing, and from that point the desk owns the arrangements and you own the consignment.
Getting to the aircraft from Angra dos Reis
How far Angra dos Reis is from an aircraft: 152 km by road to GIG, 2 hours 35 minutes of it. Any other airport a courier in Angra dos Reis can reach is listed underneath with its own measured drive.
152 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 2 hours 35 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by GIG the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Counting the second gate matters in Angra dos Reis. SDU is 2 hours 41 minutes from Angra dos Reis with 5 nonstop destinations, so a cancellation at GIG is an inconvenience rather than the end of the assignment.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | 152 km | 2 hours 35 minutes | 52 |
| SDU | Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont | 159 km | 2 hours 41 minutes | 5 |
Angra dos Reis is a city of 179,000 people in Rio de Janeiro, 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. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Angra dos Reis may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What GIG reaches without a change
From GIG the desk can reach 52 airports in 17 countries on a single aircraft. That number, rather than the size of Angra dos Reis, decides how often the phone rings here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRU | São Paulo | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | about 13 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, LATAM |
| POA | Porto Alegre | Porto Alegre Salgado Filho | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: GOL, LATAM, Azul |
| SSA | Salvador | Salvador Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães | about 10 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, LATAM |
| CWB | Curitiba | Curitiba Afonso Pena | about 10 departures a day | 3 operators: GOL, LATAM, Azul |
| VCP | Campinas | Campinas Viracopos | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, Azul |
| CNF | Belo Horizonte | Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, Azul |
| FOR | Fortaleza | Fortaleza Pinto Martins | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, LATAM |
| SCL | Santiago | Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, JetSMART, SKY Airline |
| BSB | Brasília | Brasília Presidente Juscelino Kubistschek | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, LATAM |
| IGU | Foz do Iguaçu | Foz do Iguaçu Cataratas | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: GOL, LATAM |
Counting every airport a courier in Angra dos Reis can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 53 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 Angra dos Reis
There is no published industrial map for the GIG area on this site, and a page that made one up would be worthless. The traffic out of Angra dos Reis is the normal kind: documents that have to be witnessed, parts that stopped something, and samples with a clock on them.
Why a courier in Angra dos Reis is useful to the desk
This is not a branch office in Angra dos Reis and it is not a promise of daily work. It is a list. The desk keeps names near GIG so that when a consignment appears in Rio de Janeiro there is somebody 2 hours 35 minutes away who can take it.
Because the desk sits in Dubai, the connection back to the Gulf decides how often Angra dos Reis is called. From Angra dos Reis the Gulf is a single sector: GIG and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 14h 37m in the air over 11,900 km, and it means a consignment can leave Angra dos Reis in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Brazil list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Angra dos Reis
Volta Redonda58 km away, GIG in 1 hour 54 minutesItaguaí58 km away, GIG in 1 hour 1 minutesResende61 km away, GIG in 2 hours 19 minutesGuaratinguetá92 km away, GRU in 1 hour 57 minutesNova Iguaçu93 km away, GIG in 32 minutesRio de Janeiro117 km away, SDU in 6 minutesTaubaté127 km away, GRU in 1 hour 26 minutesCaraguatatuba131 km away, GRU in 2 hours 22 minutesTeresópolis152 km away, GIG in 1 hour 27 minutesMaricá154 km away, SDU in 1 hour 19 minutesSão José dos Campos162 km away, GRU in 1 hour 2 minutesJuiz de Fora170 km away, GIG in 2 hours 32 minutes
All 97 Brazil cities are listed on the Brazil 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 GIG and the other airports listed above, between Brazil 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 2 hours 35 minutes drive to GIG. 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 GIG, 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 Angra dos Reis list
01How far is Angra dos Reis from GIG?
2 hours 35 minutes and 152 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Angra dos Reis rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Angra dos Reis without a change of aircraft?
GIG serves 52 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 21 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Angra dos Reis can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 53 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Angra dos Reis to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Angra dos Reis the Gulf is a single sector: GIG and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 14h 37m in the air over 11,900 km, and it means a consignment can leave Angra dos Reis 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 Angra dos Reis. The Angra dos Reis list exists because somebody has to be near GIG when a consignment appears in Rio de Janeiro.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. The Angra dos Reis list is free to join and free to stay on. The only money that moves from you to us is the AED 199 Academy, paid once, and it comes back on top of the fee 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.
Apply to fly out of GIG
It costs nothing to be on the Angra dos Reis list and nothing to say no. Tell us how quickly you can be at GIG and we will take it from there.
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