What is being moved is small and the deadline is not. A sealed pouch, a boxed part, a cooled sample. The volume never justifies a charter and the clock never allows a network, so a person flies with it out of GRU. From Atibaia that person drives 67 km to GRU and boards.
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On Board Courier, Atibaia
Courier work for Atibaia, run from Dubai. São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro is 67 km away by road, the desk books the ticket, and you decide which assignments you take.
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 inAtibaia, São Paulo
Nearest gateGRU · São Paulo
Drive to the aircraft67 km · 1 hour 3 minutes
Nonstop from GRU111 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
You will spend more of the assignment on the ground than in the air: 67 km from Atibaia to GRU, the check in, the wait, the clearance at the other end. The Gulf sector out of GRU is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. The fee is calculated on all of that rather than on the flying hours.
Getting to the aircraft from Atibaia
A measured route rather than a guess. Atibaia to GRU is 67 km and 1 hour 3 minutes, and every airport in the table below was measured the same way so the lines can be compared.
At 1 hour 3 minutes the desk will normally ask you to leave Atibaia about three hours before departure, more if the routing needs a bag drop cut off. The desk will send you to CGH when the routing is better from there. It is 1 hour 17 minutes from Atibaia and carries 42 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRU | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | 67 km | 1 hour 3 minutes | 111 |
| CGH | São Paulo Congonhas | 78 km | 1 hour 17 minutes | 42 |
Atibaia is a city of 159,000 people in São Paulo, 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 GRU reaches without a change
GRU is not a name on a map to this desk, it is a departure board. The network file the site publishes shows 111 airports served nonstop from GRU, across 32 countries, by 38 operating carriers.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POA | Porto Alegre | Porto Alegre Salgado Filho | about 25 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| CWB | Curitiba | Curitiba Afonso Pena | about 19 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| CNF | Belo Horizonte | Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves | about 19 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| SSA | Salvador | Salvador Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães | about 16 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| SCL | Santiago | Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez | about 16 departures a day | 6 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, SKY Airline |
| FOR | Fortaleza | Fortaleza Pinto Martins | about 15 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| BSB | Brasília | Brasília Presidente Juscelino Kubistschek | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | about 13 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, GOL |
| VIX | Vitória | Vitória Eurico de Aguiar Salles | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
| FLN | Florianópolis | Florianópolis Hercílio Luz | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, LATAM Brasil, GOL |
Counting every airport a courier in Atibaia can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 117 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
The plants and facilities below are public knowledge and sit within reach of GRU. They are named to explain the pattern of urgent work near Atibaia and for no other reason.
- Embraer, Sao Jose dos Campos. Commercial and executive jet assembly. A Brazilian line supplied largely from Europe and North America. It sits on GRU, which is 1 hour 3 minutes from Atibaia by road, and the sector is aerospace.
Why a courier in Atibaia is useful to the desk
The honest version is that some months Atibaia produces nothing and some weeks it produces three assignments. What makes a Atibaia courier worth keeping on the list is that when the call comes, 67 km is a distance that can be covered before check in closes.
What ties Atibaia to a Dubai desk is the timetable. From Atibaithe Gulf is a single sector: GRU and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 14h 58m in the air over 12,200 km, and it means a consignment can leave Atibaia 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 Atibaia
Bragança Paulista18 km away, GRU in 1 hour 20 minutesJundiaí35 km away, CGH in 54 minutesSao Paulo49 km away, CGH in 15 minutesCarapicuíba54 km away, CGH in 31 minutesCampinas57 km away, CGH in 1 hour 22 minutesMogi das Cruzes58 km away, GRU in 41 minutesMauá62 km away, CGH in 40 minutesIndaiatuba68 km away, CGH in 1 hour 23 minutesSão José dos Campos68 km away, GRU in 1 hour 2 minutesItu78 km away, CGH in 1 hour 21 minutesSumaré80 km away, CGH in 1 hour 32 minutesSantos96 km away, CGH in 1 hour 5 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 GRU 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 1 hour 3 minutes drive to GRU. 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 GRU, 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 Atibaia list
01How far is Atibaia from GRU?
About 1 hour 3 minutes, 67 km by road. The desk has that number for every city on the list and uses it to decide who gets called for a departure out of GRU tonight.
02What can I reach from Atibaia without a change of aircraft?
GRU serves 111 airports nonstop across 32 countries with 38 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Atibaia can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 117 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Atibaia to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Atibaithe Gulf is a single sector: GRU and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 14h 58m in the air over 12,200 km, and it means a consignment can leave Atibaia 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 desk is in Dubai and the company is Emirati, but the courier list is worldwide and Atibaia is on it. Where you live changes which assignments you are shown, not whether you qualify.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
There is no application fee, no placement fee and no deposit, in Atibaia or anywhere else. The AED 199 Academy is the single payment, and it is returned in full with your first assignment fee.
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 GRU
The form asks where you live in Atibaia, which passports you hold and how fast you can reach GRU. That is most of the qualification.
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