Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is SOF. 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. Pleven is 2 hours 13 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 95 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Pleven
If you are in Pleven you are 2 hours 13 minutes from Sofia and 95 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 inPleven, Pleven
Nearest gateSOF · Sofia
Drive to the aircraft158 km · 2 hours 13 minutes
Nonstop from SOF95 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
There is no roster and no shift on the Pleven list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 158 km to SOF, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of SOF is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Pleven
The ground leg from Pleven is 158 km to Sofia, about 2 hours 13 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Pleven it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
158 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 2 hours 13 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by SOF the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Everything out of Pleven runs through SOF, because nothing else is within a sensible drive. Its 95 nonstop destinations are the honest limit of what you can be offered here.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOF | Sofia | 158 km | 2 hours 13 minutes | 95 |
Pleven is a city of 90,000 people in Pleven, and the clock there runs 1 hour behind the Emirates in summer and 2 in winter. 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 Pleven may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What SOF reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Sofia: 95 nonstop destinations, 32 countries, 28 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIE | Vienna | Vienna Schwechat | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Austrian Airlines |
| VAR | Varna | Varna | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator |
| WAW | Warsaw | Warsaw Chopin | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Wizz Air, LOT Polish Airlines |
| IST | Istanbul | Istanbul | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Turkish Airlines |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa |
| TLV | Tel Aviv Yafo | Tel Aviv Yafo Ben Gurion | about 3 departures a day | 5 operators: Wizz Air, Arkia, EL AL |
| BGY | Bergamo | Bergamo Orio al Serio | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
Counting every airport a courier in Pleven can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 95 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 Pleven
The site holds no public industrial map for SOF, so this section says less rather than guessing. Consignments out of Pleven are typically documents, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Pleven is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Pleven is inside one. Pleven sits inside the catchment of Sofia, 158 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from SOF. From Pleven the Gulf is a single sector: SOF and DXB are joined nonstop, about 5 departures a week, flown by flydubai. That is roughly 4h 37m in the air over 3,500 km, and it means a consignment can leave Pleven in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Bulgaria list
Show the 11 closest, and how far each is from Pleven
Ruse118 km away, OTP in 1 hour 52 minutesSofia132 km away, SOF in 20 minutesStara Zagora138 km away, BOJ in 1 hour 57 minutesPlovdiv141 km away, SOF in 1 hour 40 minutesPernik158 km away, SOF in 55 minutesSliven161 km away, BOJ in 1 hour 27 minutesShumen187 km away, VAR in 55 minutesBlagoevgrad199 km away, SOF in 1 hour 32 minutesBurgas253 km away, BOJ in 18 minutesDobrich260 km away, VAR in 44 minutesVarna267 km away, VAR in 11 minutes
All 12 Bulgaria cities are listed on the Bulgaria 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 SOF, between Bulgaria 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 13 minutes drive to SOF. 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 SOF, 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 Pleven list
01How far is Pleven from SOF?
2 hours 13 minutes and 158 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Pleven rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Pleven without a change of aircraft?
SOF serves 95 airports nonstop across 32 countries with 28 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Pleven can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 95 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Pleven to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Pleven the Gulf is a single sector: SOF and DXB are joined nonstop, about 5 departures a week, flown by flydubai. That is roughly 4h 37m in the air over 3,500 km, and it means a consignment can leave Pleven 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 company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Pleven. The Pleven list exists because somebody has to be near SOF when a consignment appears in Pleven.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Pleven 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 offer, the routing out of SOF and the fee arrive together. You reply yes or no, and the yes is the agreement for that single trip out of SOF.
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