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 CGH. From Piracicaba that person drives 163 km to CGH and boards.
On Board Courier, Piracicaba
Courier work for Piracicaba, run from Dubai. São Paulo Congonhas is 163 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.
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.
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.
How to start, in four steps
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
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: 163 km from Piracicaba to CGH, the check in, the wait, the clearance at the other end. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of GIG, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The fee is calculated on all of that rather than on the flying hours.
Getting to the aircraft from Piracicaba
A measured route rather than a guess. Piracicaba to CGH is 163 km and 1 hour 57 minutes, and every airport in the table below was measured the same way so the lines can be compared.
At 1 hour 57 minutes the drive from Piracicaba is the risky half of the trip, so it is planned rather than assumed: an earlier departure from home, and where the flight is early, a room near CGH paid by the desk. The desk will send you to GRU when the routing is better from there. It is 2 hours 4 minutes from Piracicaba and carries 111 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGH | São Paulo Congonhas | 163 km | 1 hour 57 minutes | 42 |
| GRU | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | 173 km | 2 hours 4 minutes | 111 |
Piracicaba is a city of 441,000 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. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Piracicaba may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What CGH reaches without a change
CGH is not a name on a map to this desk, it is a departure board. The network file the site publishes shows 42 airports served nonstop from CGH, across 1 countries, by 4 operating carriers.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDU | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont | about 33 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM Brasil, LATAM, Azul |
| BSB | Brasília | Brasília Presidente Juscelino Kubistschek | about 25 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| CNF | Belo Horizonte | Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves | about 25 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| POA | Porto Alegre | Porto Alegre Salgado Filho | about 24 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| CWB | Curitiba | Curitiba Afonso Pena | about 20 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| SSA | Salvador | Salvador Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães | about 17 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| FLN | Florianópolis | Florianópolis Hercílio Luz | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| REC | Recife | Recife Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre | about 13 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| GYN | Goiânia | Goiânia Santa Genoveva | about 11 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL, LATAM |
| NVT | Navegantes | Navegantes Ministro Victor Konder | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM Brasil, GOL |
Counting every airport a courier in Piracicaba 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.
What moves out of Piracicaba
This site keeps a public register of industrial sites for some airports, and CGH is not one of them. Rather than guess, the honest statement is that assignments from Piracicaba are driven by deadlines rather than by any one factory: contracts, components, samples and valuables.
Why a courier in Piracicaba is useful to the desk
The honest version is that some months Piracicaba produces nothing and some weeks it produces three assignments. What makes a Piracicaba courier worth keeping on the list is that when the call comes, 163 km is a distance that can be covered before check in closes.
CGH does not fly to the Emirates directly. From Piracicabthe best single change is Rio de Janeiro (GIG), and GIG to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 16h 59m gate to gate, so an assignment between Piracicaba and the Emirates is planned as a connecting itinerary and the desk books the whole thing on one ticket.
The nearest other cities on the Brazil list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Piracicaba
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 CGH 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 57 minutes drive to CGH. 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 CGH, 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 Piracicaba list
01How far is Piracicaba from CGH?
About 1 hour 57 minutes, 163 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 CGH tonight.
02What can I reach from Piracicaba without a change of aircraft?
CGH serves 42 airports nonstop across 1 countries with 4 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Piracicaba 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 Piracicaba to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Piracicabthe best single change is Rio de Janeiro (GIG), and GIG to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 16h 59m gate to gate, so an assignment between Piracicaba and the Emirates is planned as a connecting itinerary and the desk books the whole thing on one ticket.
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 Piracicaba 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 Piracicaba 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 CGH
The form asks where you live in Piracicaba, which passports you hold and how fast you can reach CGH. That is most of the qualification.
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