Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is CGH. 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. Sorocaba is 1 hour 20 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 42 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Sorocaba
If you are in Sorocaba you are 1 hour 20 minutes from São Paulo Congonhas and 42 scheduled nonstop destinations. That is the whole starting qualification. Freelance, per assignment, ticket paid.
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 inSorocaba, São Paulo
Nearest gateCGH · São Paulo
Drive to the aircraft100 km · 1 hour 20 minutes
Nonstop from CGH42 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 1,200 to 2,000
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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 1,200 to 2,000A 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
There is no roster and no shift on the Sorocaba list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 100 km to CGH, board, land, clear, hand over. 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. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Sorocaba
The ground leg from Sorocaba is 100 km to São Paulo Congonhas, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Sorocaba it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
100 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 1 hour 20 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by CGH the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Sorocaba has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. GRU at 1 hour 33 minutes adds 111 nonstop destinations to the 42 at CGH.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGH | São Paulo Congonhas | 100 km | 1 hour 20 minutes | 42 |
| GRU | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | 118 km | 1 hour 33 minutes | 111 |
Sorocaba is a city of 762,000 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.
What CGH reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from São Paulo Congonhas: 42 nonstop destinations, 1 countries, 4 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| 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 Sorocaba 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 Sorocaba
No public industrial file exists here for Sorocaba, 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 Sorocaba is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Sorocaba is inside one. Sorocaba sits inside the catchment of São Paulo Congonhas, 100 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 to Dubai from Sorocaba involves a change of aircraft. From Sorocabthe 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 Sorocaba 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 Sorocaba
Campinas78 km away, CGH in 1 hour 22 minutesSao Paulo84 km away, CGH in 15 minutesSão José dos Campos164 km away, GRU in 1 hour 2 minutesCuritiba282 km away, CWB in 26 minutesJoinville342 km away, CWB in 1 hour 46 minutesNova Iguaçu418 km away, GIG in 32 minutesRio de Janeiro442 km away, SDU in 6 minutesPorto Alegre817 km away, POA in 18 minutesBrasilia860 km away, BSB in 18 minutesSalvador1504 km away, SSA in 27 minutesRecife2179 km away, REC in 14 minutesJoão Pessoa2265 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 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 20 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 Sorocaba list
01How far is Sorocaba from CGH?
1 hour 20 minutes and 100 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Sorocaba rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Sorocaba without a change of aircraft?
CGH serves 42 airports nonstop across 1 countries with 4 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Sorocaba 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 Sorocaba to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Sorocabthe 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 Sorocaba 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 company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Sorocaba. The Sorocaba list exists because somebody has to be near CGH when a consignment appears in São Paulo.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Sorocaba 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.
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