The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 2 hours 32 minutes from GIG. Everything else, the booking out of GIG, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Juiz de Fora
Hand carry work from Juiz de Fora and the surrounding Minas Gerais area. Departures run through Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim, 176 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 inJuiz de Fora, Minas Gerais
Nearest gateGIG · Rio de Janeiro
Drive to the aircraft176 km · 2 hours 32 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
Some trips out of Juiz de Fora 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. The Gulf sector out of GIG is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. The drive to GIG is 2 hours 32 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Juiz de Fora
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Juiz de Fora. The nearest usable gate is GIG at 2 hours 32 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
Two things follow from a 2 hours 32 minutes drive. The offers you see will carry more notice, and the desk will pay for a room near GIG rather than ask you to start before dawn. A second airport is within reach of Juiz de Fora: Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont at 2 hours 38 minutes, with 5 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | 176 km | 2 hours 32 minutes | 52 |
| SDU | Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont | 184 km | 2 hours 38 minutes | 5 |
Juiz de Fora is a city of 541,000 people in Minas Gerais, 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 Juiz de Fora may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What GIG reaches without a change
The only fact about GIG that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 52 airports, 17 countries, 21 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| 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 Juiz de Fora 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 Juiz de Fora
No industrial register exists here for Juiz de Fora and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 541,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Juiz de Fora is useful to the desk
Being close to GIG is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Juiz de Fora measures 2 hours 32 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
The practical link between Juiz de Fora and Dubai is a scheduled sector, not a promise. From Juiz de Forthe 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 Juiz de Fora 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 Juiz de Fora
Barbacena74 km away, GIG in 3 hours 46 minutesTeresópolis82 km away, GIG in 1 hour 27 minutesNova Friburgo102 km away, GIG in 2 hours 33 minutesNova Iguaçu111 km away, GIG in 32 minutesVolta Redonda115 km away, GIG in 1 hour 54 minutesRio de Janeiro128 km away, SDU in 6 minutesItaguaí129 km away, GIG in 1 hour 1 minutesResende137 km away, GIG in 2 hours 19 minutesMaricá140 km away, SDU in 1 hour 19 minutesAraruama161 km away, SDU in 1 hour 48 minutesRio das Ostras168 km away, SDU in 2 hours 29 minutesAngra dos Reis170 km away, GIG in 2 hours 35 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 32 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 Juiz de Fora list
01How far is Juiz de Fora from GIG?
By road it is 176 km and about 2 hours 32 minutes from the centre of Juiz de Fora to Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Juiz de Fora against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Juiz de Fora without a change of aircraft?
GIG serves 52 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 21 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Juiz de Fora 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 Juiz de Fora to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Juiz de Forthe 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 Juiz de Fora 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, and that is the point of posting Juiz de Fora separately. The desk needs people near GIG as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Juiz de Fora and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Juiz de Fora 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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