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 GIG. From Teresópolis that person drives 92 km to GIG and boards.
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On Board Courier, Teresópolis
Courier work for Teresópolis, run from Dubai. Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim is 92 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.
Based inTeresópolis, Rio de Janeiro
Nearest gateGIG · Rio de Janeiro
Drive to the aircraft92 km · 1 hour 27 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
You will spend more of the assignment on the ground than in the air: 92 km from Teresópolis to GIG, the check in, the wait, the clearance at the other end. The Gulf sector out of GIG is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. The fee is calculated on all of that rather than on the flying hours.
Getting to the aircraft from Teresópolis
A measured route rather than a guess. Teresópolis to GIG is 92 km and 1 hour 27 minutes, and every airport in the table below was measured the same way so the lines can be compared.
At 1 hour 27 minutes the drive from Teresópolis 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 GIG paid by the desk. The desk will send you to SDU when the routing is better from there. It is 1 hour 33 minutes from Teresópolis and carries 5 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIG | Rio de Janeiro RIOgaleão-Tom Jobim | 92 km | 1 hour 27 minutes | 52 |
| SDU | Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont | 100 km | 1 hour 33 minutes | 5 |
Teresópolis is a city of 177,000 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 Teresópolis may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What GIG reaches without a change
GIG is not a name on a map to this desk, it is a departure board. The network file the site publishes shows 52 airports served nonstop from GIG, across 17 countries, by 21 operating carriers.
| 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 Teresópolis can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 53 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 Teresópolis
This site keeps a public register of industrial sites for some airports, and GIG is not one of them. Rather than guess, the honest statement is that assignments from Teresópolis are driven by deadlines rather than by any one factory: contracts, components, samples and valuables.
Why a courier in Teresópolis is useful to the desk
The honest version is that some months Teresópolis produces nothing and some weeks it produces three assignments. What makes a Teresópolis courier worth keeping on the list is that when the call comes, 92 km is a distance that can be covered before check in closes.
What ties Teresópolis to a Dubai desk is the timetable. From Teresópolis 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 Teresópolis 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 Teresópolis
Nova Friburgo48 km away, GIG in 2 hours 33 minutesMaricá58 km away, SDU in 1 hour 19 minutesRio de Janeiro58 km away, SDU in 6 minutesNova Iguaçu62 km away, GIG in 32 minutesJuiz de Fora82 km away, GIG in 2 hours 32 minutesAraruama83 km away, SDU in 1 hour 48 minutesItaguaí95 km away, GIG in 1 hour 1 minutesRio das Ostras107 km away, SDU in 2 hours 29 minutesCabo Frio111 km away, SDU in 2 hours 24 minutesVolta Redonda116 km away, GIG in 1 hour 54 minutesMacaé123 km away, SDU in 2 hours 47 minutesResende151 km away, GIG in 2 hours 19 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 1 hour 27 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 Teresópolis list
01How far is Teresópolis from GIG?
About 1 hour 27 minutes, 92 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 GIG tonight.
02What can I reach from Teresópolis without a change of aircraft?
GIG serves 52 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 21 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Teresópolis can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 53 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Teresópolis to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Teresópolis 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 Teresópolis 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. The desk is in Dubai and the company is Emirati, but the courier list is worldwide and Teresópolis 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 Teresópolis 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 GIG
The form asks where you live in Teresópolis, which passports you hold and how fast you can reach GIG. That is most of the qualification.
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