A consignment out of Ontario is a race between a road and a departure board. The road from Stratford is 124 km. The board at YYZ carries 198 nonstop destinations. Where the two line up, an assignment happens.
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On Board Courier, Stratford
Hand carry assignments for Stratford, Ontario. The nearest working gate is YYZ at 1 hour 46 minutes, the seat is bought by the desk, and the fee is written down 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 inStratford, Ontario
Nearest gateYYZ · Toronto
Drive to the aircraft124 km · 1 hour 46 minutes
Nonstop from YYZ198 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 on a trip out of YYZ is left for you to arrange. The seat, the transfers and, where the routing calls for one, the hotel are booked and paid before you leave Stratford. The Gulf sector out of YYZ is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. What you bring is a passport, a phone and the consignment.
Getting to the aircraft from Stratford
Nothing on this page is a straight line distance from Stratford. From the middle of the city to the terminal at Toronto Pearson is 124 km of real road, about 1 hour 46 minutes, and that is the figure every timing here is built on.
The ground leg out of Stratford is planned rather than gambled on. From here it is 1 hour 46 minutes to YYZ, so the offer will name an early leaving time or an overnight. There is a single gate for Stratford and this page will not invent a second one. YYZ is 1 hour 46 minutes away and reaches 198 airports without a change.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YYZ | Toronto Pearson | 124 km | 1 hour 46 minutes | 198 |
Stratford is a city of 31,000 people in Ontario, and the clock there runs 8 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 9 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 Stratford may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What YYZ reaches without a change
Reach is the second half of the Stratford case. Toronto Pearson serves 198 airports directly across 64 countries, which is what turns a short drive into an assignment.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YYC | Calgary | Calgary | about 37 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, WestJet |
| YVR | Vancouver | Vancouver | about 37 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, WestJet |
| YUL | Montreal | Montreal Trudeau | about 26 departures a day | 6 operators: Air Canada, WestJet, Royal Jordanian |
| ORD | Chicago | Chicago O'Hare | about 22 departures a day | 6 operators: Air Canada, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| YHZ | Halifax | Halifax Stanfield | about 22 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, WestJet |
| YWG | Winnipeg | Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson | about 20 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, WestJet |
| YEG | Edmonton | Edmonton | about 19 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, WestJet |
| LGA | New York | New York La Guardia | about 18 departures a day | 3 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, American Airlines |
| YOW | Ottawa | Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier | about 17 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, Porter Airlines, WestJet |
| EWR | Newark | Newark Liberty | about 12 departures a day | 4 operators: Air Canada, United Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Stratford can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 198 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 Stratford
No plant is named near Stratford because none is documented here for YYZ. The traffic out of Stratford is the everyday urgent kind, and it is what a courier on this list is called for.
Why a courier in Stratford is useful to the desk
What Stratford offers is a short, reliable ground leg into a board of 198 nonstop destinations. That combination is rarer than it sounds, and it is worth more to this desk than a famous address with a two hour drive.
For anything routed through the Emirates, this is the YYZ position. From Stratford the Gulf is a single sector: YYZ and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 13h 40m in the air over 11,100 km, and it means a consignment can leave Stratford in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Canada list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Stratford
Woodstock31 km away, YYZ in 1 hour 37 minutesKitchener36 km away, YYZ in 1 hour 13 minutesLondon48 km away, YYZ in 2 hours 16 minutesBrantford61 km away, YYZ in 1 hour 22 minutesHamilton90 km away, YYZ in 58 minutesCaledon95 km away, YYZ in 46 minutesMississauga107 km away, YYZ in 20 minutesSarnia126 km away, YYZ in 3 hours 20 minutesSt. Catharines140 km away, YYZ in 1 hour 22 minutesNewmarket141 km away, YYZ in 1 hourChatham146 km away, YYZ in 3 hours 31 minutesMarkham146 km away, YYZ in 47 minutes
All 54 Canada cities are listed on the Canada 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 YYZ, between Canada 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 46 minutes drive to YYZ. 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 YYZ, 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 Stratford list
01How far is Stratford from YYZ?
Measured door to terminal it is 124 km and about 1 hour 46 minutes. Parking or a transfer at YYZ is our cost either way.
02What can I reach from Stratford without a change of aircraft?
YYZ serves 198 airports nonstop across 64 countries with 61 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Stratford can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 198 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Stratford to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Stratford the Gulf is a single sector: YYZ and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 13h 40m in the air over 11,100 km, and it means a consignment can leave Stratford 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. You apply from Stratford, you are screened from Stratford and you fly out of YYZ, and nothing in that sequence requires a UAE address.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Free to apply from Stratford, free to be screened and free to decline. The AED 199 Academy is paid once and refunded on top of the fee for your first completed assignment out of YYZ.
06How is my fee agreed?
Before you accept anything the desk tells you what the trip pays, where it goes from YYZ and when you need to leave Stratford. Nothing about a Stratford assignment is left to be discovered later.
Apply to fly out of YYZ
Tell us you are in Stratford and how quickly you can be at YYZ. Your passports, your visas and the 1 hour 46 minutes drive are most of what the application asks about.
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