Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is CWB. The desk holds a consignment that is late, valuable or perishable, finds the first departure that fits, and then looks for a courier who can be at the counter in time. Piraquara is 23 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 16 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Piraquara
Freelance hand carry work for couriers who live in Piraquara. CWB is 23 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 inPiraquara, Paraná
Nearest gateCWB · Curitiba
Drive to the aircraft21 km · 23 minutes
Nonstop from CWB16 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
From the offer to the handover, a trip out of CWB tends to run under thirty hours. 23 minutes to Curitiba Afonso Pena, the sector itself, customs at the far end, and a signature. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of GRU, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. Everything outside the cabin, the transfers, the hotel where the routing needs one, is booked and paid by the desk.
Getting to the aircraft from Piraquara
A courier in Piraquara is only as fast as the road in front of them. Piraquara to CWB is 21 km, 23 minutes, and the airports below are ordered by that drive rather than by size.
The ground leg from Piraquara barely counts as one. 23 minutes to CWB means the desk can ring you and still make a departure the same evening. A single gate serves Piraquara. When CWB has no suitable departure the assignment waits or goes to another city, which is worth knowing before you join the list.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CWB | Curitiba Afonso Pena | 21 km | 23 minutes | 16 |
Piraquara is a city of 119,000 people in Paraná, 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 CWB reaches without a change
CWB publishes 16 nonstop routes. For a courier in Piraquara that is the difference between waiting for tomorrow and boarding tonight, so the busiest of them are set out below with their operators.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRU | São Paulo | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | about 11 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, GOL |
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | about 11 departures a day | 4 operators: Azul, LATAM, GOL |
| VCP | Campinas | Campinas Viracopos | about 9 departures a day | 1 operator: Azul |
| POA | Porto Alegre | Porto Alegre Salgado Filho | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Azul, LATAM |
| BSB | Brasília | Brasília Presidente Juscelino Kubistschek | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, GOL |
| CGH | São Paulo | São Paulo Congonhas | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Azul |
| CNF | Belo Horizonte | Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Azul |
| IGU | Foz do Iguaçu | Foz do Iguaçu Cataratas | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: Azul, LATAM |
| LDB | Londrina | Londrina Governador José Richa | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Azul |
| MGF | Maringá | Maringá Regional de - Sílvio Nane Junior | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Azul |
Counting every airport a courier in Piraquara can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 16 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 Piraquara
There is no published industrial map for the CWB area on this site, and a page that made one up would be worthless. The traffic out of Piraquara 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 Piraquara is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Piraquara is inside one. Piraquara sits inside the catchment of Curitiba Afonso Pena, 21 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The connection is the part worth understanding before you accept anything out of CWB. From Piraquarthe best single change is São Paulo (GRU), and GRU to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 20m gate to gate, so an assignment between Piraquara 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 Piraquara
Curitiba21 km away, CWB in 26 minutesAraucária38 km away, CWB in 32 minutesCampo Largo46 km away, CWB in 49 minutesParanaguá55 km away, CWB in 1 hour 5 minutesJoinville98 km away, CWB in 1 hour 46 minutesJaraguá do Sul116 km away, CWB in 2 hours 20 minutesPonta Grossa117 km away, CWB in 1 hour 57 minutesBlumenau164 km away, CWB in 3 hours 15 minutesItajaí168 km away, CWB in 2 hours 50 minutesBrusque185 km away, CWB in 3 hours 13 minutesGuarapuava241 km away, CWB in 3 hours 40 minutesFlorianópolis245 km away, CWB in 3 hours 54 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 CWB, 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 23 minutes drive to CWB. 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 CWB, 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 Piraquara list
01How far is Piraquara from CWB?
21 km, about 23 minutes by car from Piraquara. The desk works backwards from the bag drop at CWB, so the time it asks you to leave will look conservative and is meant to.
02What can I reach from Piraquara without a change of aircraft?
CWB serves 16 airports nonstop across 3 countries with 5 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Piraquara can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 16 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Piraquara to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Piraquarthe best single change is São Paulo (GRU), and GRU to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 20m gate to gate, so an assignment between Piraquara 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. OnBoard Courier is a UAE company and the desk is in Dubai, but the courier list is worldwide. Living in Piraquara, 23 minutes from CWB, is a qualification rather than an obstacle.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Piraquara and free to be screened. The one charge anywhere in the process is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and refunded on top of 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 CWB
One application covers Piraquara and every other desk we run. Tell us where you are and how fast you can reach Curitiba Afonso Pena.
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