One trip, one consignment, one handover. No round, no van, no warehouse. The consignment is sealed before you take it, it stays in the cabin from CGH onwards, and it is signed for by a named person at the far end. From Ribeirão Preto the trip begins with 3 hours 54 minutes of road to São Paulo Congonhas.
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On Board Courier, Ribeirão Preto
Urgent consignments leave Ribeirão Preto the way passengers do: in the cabin, with a person. CGH is 3 hours 54 minutes from the city and the desk pays for the seat.
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 inRibeirão Preto, São Paulo
Nearest gateCGH · São Paulo
Drive to the aircraft320 km · 3 hours 54 minutes
Nonstop from CGH42 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
A trip out of Ribeirão Preto has four fixed points: the collection, the 3 hours 54 minutes drive to CGH, the sector itself and the signature at the far 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. Everything between them is arranged by the desk and confirmed to you in writing.
Getting to the aircraft from Ribeirão Preto
The drive is the honest half of this work. Ribeirão Preto to São Paulo Congonhas is 320 km and about 3 hours 54 minutes, and an assignment is planned backwards from the bag drop rather than from the departure.
At 320 km the drive is the part most likely to go wrong, so the desk over allows for it: an earlier start from Ribeirão Preto, or a hotel by CGH the night before, paid by us. The alternative from Ribeirão Preto is GRU, 4 hours 1 minutes by road and 111 nonstop destinations. Two usable gates is why Ribeirão Preto stays on this list when one airline rewrites its schedule.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGH | São Paulo Congonhas | 320 km | 3 hours 54 minutes | 42 |
| GRU | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | 331 km | 4 hours 1 minutes | 111 |
Ribeirão Preto is a city of 699,000 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 Ribeirão Preto may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What CGH reaches without a change
This is the departure board a courier in Ribeirão Preto works from: 42 nonstop destinations out of CGH, 4 operating carriers, and average daily frequencies taken from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
| 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 Ribeirão Preto 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 Ribeirão Preto
The site does not hold a public industrial file for the CGH catchment, so this page will not invent one. What it can say honestly is that Ribeirão Preto generates the ordinary urgent traffic every working city generates: signed originals, spare parts, samples and small high value items that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Ribeirão Preto is useful to the desk
A courier in Ribeirão Preto shortens the chain by one link. Without one, an urgent consignment out of São Paulo has to be trucked to a hub or flown out with somebody sent from elsewhere. With one, it is 3 hours 54 minutes of driving and a boarding pass.
The Gulf is one change away from CGH rather than nonstop, which is worth stating plainly. From Ribeirão Preto the 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 Ribeirão Preto 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 Ribeirão Preto
São Carlos94 km away, CGH in 2 hours 58 minutesRio Claro140 km away, CGH in 2 hours 16 minutesLimeira160 km away, CGH in 1 hour 54 minutesPiracicaba173 km away, CGH in 1 hour 57 minutesBauru181 km away, CGH in 3 hours 56 minutesSumaré191 km away, CGH in 1 hour 32 minutesCampinas207 km away, CGH in 1 hour 22 minutesIndaiatuba221 km away, CGH in 1 hour 23 minutesPouso Alegre226 km away, GRU in 2 hours 47 minutesBragança Paulista237 km away, GRU in 1 hour 20 minutesItu238 km away, CGH in 1 hour 21 minutesJundiaí243 km away, CGH in 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 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 3 hours 54 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 Ribeirão Preto list
01How far is Ribeirão Preto from CGH?
It is 320 km of driving from Ribeirão Preto, roughly 3 hours 54 minutes. Parking or the transfer is paid by the desk, and if the timings are tight the desk pays for a room near CGH the night before instead of hoping.
02What can I reach from Ribeirão Preto without a change of aircraft?
CGH serves 42 airports nonstop across 1 countries with 4 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Ribeirão Preto 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 Ribeirão Preto to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Ribeirão Preto the 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 Ribeirão Preto 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?
You do not. A residence visa is not asked for and not needed to be on the Ribeirão Preto list. What is asked for is a passport, the right to enter the country on the routing, and the ability to reach CGH.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Ribeirão Preto 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 CGH
Add your name to the Ribeirão Preto list. A form, a screening call, and the desk knows who to ring when something has to leave São Paulo tonight.
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