What the desk actually needs from Nova Iguaçu is proximity to a gate. An assignment appears when something has to leave Rio de Janeiro by a deadline no freight product will promise. The question is then very simple: who is close enough to GIG to check in for the next departure. From Nova Iguaçu that is 32 minutes of driving, which is why the city is on the list at all.
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On Board Courier, Nova Iguaçu
Freelance hand carry work for couriers who live in Nova Iguaçu. GIG is 32 minutes away by road, the desk books and pays the seat, and the fee is agreed in writing before you accept.
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 inNova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro
Nearest gateGIG · Rio de Janeiro
Drive to the aircraft33 km · 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
Most assignments out of GIG are confirmed hours, not days, in advance. You are given the flight, the consignee and the customs position in writing, you drive to GIG, and the ticket is already paid and issued in your name. The Gulf sector out of GIG is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. The handover is in person, and the fee reaches your account after it.
Getting to the aircraft from Nova Iguaçu
From the middle of Nova Iguaçu to the departure hall at GIG is 33 km of road, 32 minutes in normal conditions. Every timing the desk gives a courier in Nova Iguaçu starts from that number.
At 32 minutes the desk treats the drive as predictable rather than trivial, and the offer names the hour you should leave Nova Iguaçu. Counting the second gate matters in Nova Iguaçu. SDU is 38 minutes from Nova Iguaçu 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 | 33 km | 32 minutes | 52 |
| SDU | Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont | 40 km | 38 minutes | 5 |
Nova Iguaçu is a city of 843,000 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.
What GIG reaches without a change
The board at GIG carries 52 nonstop destinations flown by 21 carriers. The table below is the busiest end of the GIG board, measured in average daily flights rather than in marketing.
| 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 Nova Iguaçu 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 Nova Iguaçu
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 Nova Iguaçu 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 Nova Iguaçu is useful to the desk
A courier based in Nova Iguaçu is useful to a Dubai desk for a reason that has nothing to do with Nova Iguaçu being famous. It is that the desk can position a person at GIG inside 32 minutes of a phone call, and GIG has somewhere to send them.
Because the desk sits in Dubai, the connection back to the Gulf decides how often Nova Iguaçu is called. From Nova Iguaçu 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 Nova Iguaçu 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 Nova Iguaçu
Rio de Janeiro32 km away, SDU in 6 minutesSão José dos Campos254 km away, GRU in 1 hour 2 minutesSao Paulo337 km away, CGH in 15 minutesCampinas370 km away, CGH in 1 hour 22 minutesSorocaba418 km away, CGH in 1 hour 20 minutesCuritiba661 km away, CWB in 26 minutesJoinville673 km away, CWB in 1 hour 46 minutesBrasilia907 km away, BSB in 18 minutesPorto Alegre1119 km away, POA in 18 minutesSalvador1208 km away, SSA in 27 minutesRecife1874 km away, REC in 14 minutesJoão Pessoa1967 km away, REC in 1 hour 55 minutes
All 16 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 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 Nova Iguaçu list
01How far is Nova Iguaçu from GIG?
33 km, about 32 minutes by car from Nova Iguaçu. The desk works backwards from the bag drop at GIG, so the time it asks you to leave will look conservative and is meant to.
02What can I reach from Nova Iguaçu without a change of aircraft?
GIG serves 52 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 21 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Nova Iguaçu 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 Nova Iguaçu to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Nova Iguaçu 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 Nova Iguaçu 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. OnBoard Courier is a UAE company and the desk is in Dubai, but the courier list is worldwide. Living in Nova Iguaçu, 32 minutes from GIG, is a qualification rather than an obstacle.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Nova Iguaçu 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.
Apply to fly out of GIG
Apply once and you are on the list for GIG and for every other lane your passport allows. Declining an offer out of GIG costs you nothing.
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