Resende qualifies on a measured drive, not on a reputation. Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim is 161 km from the centre, 2 hours 19 minutes by road, and it reaches 52 airports nonstop. Those are the two numbers that put the city on the list, and they are the numbers an offer is decided on.
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On Board Courier, Resende
The Resende courier list. 2 hours 19 minutes to GIG, 52 airports it reaches without a change, and a written fee for every assignment before you accept it.
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 inResende, Rio de Janeiro
Nearest gateGIG · Rio de Janeiro
Drive to the aircraft161 km · 2 hours 19 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
Nothing about a trip out of GIG is improvised. The routing, the consignee, the customs position and the return are settled before the desk calls Resende. The Gulf sector out of GIG is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. What is left to you is the drive, the flight and the handover.
Getting to the aircraft from Resende
The road distance below is measured, not estimated: 161 km and 2 hours 19 minutes from the centre of Resende to the terminal at GIG, by the fastest driving route.
2 hours 19 minutes on the road is a real commitment and the desk treats it as one. The offer will say when you need to leave Resende, and an overnight near GIG is booked and paid for when the timings do not work otherwise. Resende has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. SDU at 2 hours 24 minutes adds 5 nonstop destinations to the 52 at GIG.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | 161 km | 2 hours 19 minutes | 52 |
| SDU | Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont | 169 km | 2 hours 24 minutes | 5 |
| GRU | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | 249 km | 3 hours 5 minutes | 111 |
| CGH | São Paulo Congonhas | 280 km | 3 hours 36 minutes | 42 |
Resende is a city of 138,000 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. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Resende may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What GIG reaches without a change
What matters about Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim is where it goes without a change: 52 destinations in 17 countries. The busiest of them, by average daily flights out of GIG, are listed 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 Resende can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 120 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 Resende
No public industrial file exists here for Resende, so none is claimed. Urgent hand carry demand in a city this size comes from deadlines, not from a single plant: a court filing, a machine that stopped, a batch that has to be tested.
Why a courier in Resende is useful to the desk
The commercial case for a name in Resende is subtraction. Without one, an urgent consignment out of Rio de Janeiro needs a positioning flight or a truck to a hub. With one it needs 2 hours 19 minutes of driving to GIG and a boarding pass.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from GIG. From Resende 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 Resende 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 Resende
Volta Redonda36 km away, GIG in 1 hour 54 minutesAngra dos Reis61 km away, GIG in 2 hours 35 minutesItaguaí81 km away, GIG in 1 hour 1 minutesGuaratinguetá86 km away, GRU in 1 hour 57 minutesNova Iguaçu107 km away, GIG in 32 minutesTaubaté129 km away, GRU in 1 hour 26 minutesJuiz de Fora137 km away, GIG in 2 hours 32 minutesRio de Janeiro139 km away, SDU in 6 minutesTeresópolis151 km away, GIG in 1 hour 27 minutesBarbacena155 km away, GIG in 3 hours 46 minutesPouso Alegre155 km away, GRU in 2 hours 47 minutesCaraguatatuba162 km away, GRU in 2 hours 22 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 19 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 Resende list
01How far is Resende from GIG?
The route from Resende to GIG runs 161 km and takes about 2 hours 19 minutes with clear roads. Traffic between Resende and GIG is allowed for on top, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer either way.
02What can I reach from Resende without a change of aircraft?
GIG serves 52 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 21 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Resende can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 120 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Resende to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Resende 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 Resende 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 residence visa, no Emirates address and no relocation. A courier on this list lives in Resende and flies out of GIG, which is exactly what the desk needs.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Applying from Resende is free and stays free. One payment exists in the whole process, the AED 199 Academy, and that amount is added back on top of the fee 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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