The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 36 minutes from SCL. Everything else, the booking out of SCL, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Puente Alto
Hand carry work from Puente Alto and the surrounding Santiago Metropolitan area. Departures run through Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez, 39 km by road, on a list you join once and stay on.
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 inPuente Alto, Santiago Metropolitan
Nearest gateSCL · Santiago
Drive to the aircraft39 km · 36 minutes
Nonstop from SCL55 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
Some trips out of Puente Alto are same day returns and some put you in a hotel while a return consignment is prepared. The offer says which before you accept it. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of MAD, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive to SCL is 36 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Puente Alto
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Puente Alto. The nearest usable gate is SCL at 36 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
The 36 minutes between Puente Alto and SCL is the ordinary shape of this work: long enough to plan, short enough to say yes to a flight tonight. Nothing else is close enough to Puente Alto to be useful, so SCL carries every assignment. Its 55 nonstop destinations are the ceiling, and the desk plans around that rather than pretending otherwise.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCL | Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez | 39 km | 36 minutes | 55 |
Puente Alto is a city of 568,000 people in Santiago Metropolitan, and the clock there runs 8 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 7 in winter. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
What SCL reaches without a change
The only fact about SCL that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 55 airports, 18 countries, 16 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CJC | Calama | Calama El Loa | about 23 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| ANF | Antofagasta | Antofagasta Cerro Moreno | about 20 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| PMC | Puerto Montt | El Tepual Airport | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| CCP | Concepción | Concepción Carriel Sur | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| GRU | São Paulo | São Paulo Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro | about 13 departures a day | 4 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| IQQ | Iquique | Diego Aracena Airport | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| ZCO | Temuco | Temuco La Araucania | about 10 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| LSC | La Serena-Coquimbo | La Serena-Coquimbo La Florida | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline, JetSMART |
| AEP | Buenos Aires | Jorge Newbery Airfield | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: SKY Airline, JetSMART, Aerolineas Argentinas |
| LIM | Lima | Lima Jorge Chávez | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, SKY Airline |
Counting every airport a courier in Puente Alto can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 55 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 Puente Alto
No industrial register exists here for Puente Alto and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 568,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Puente Alto is useful to the desk
Being close to SCL is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Puente Alto measures 36 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Puente Alto the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Puente Alto the best single change is Madrid (MAD), and MAD to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 2 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 21h 52m gate to gate, so an assignment between Puente Alto 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 Chile list
Show the 10 closest, and how far each is from Puente Alto
Santiago18 km away, SCL in 22 minutesColina46 km away, SCL in 26 minutesRancagua64 km away, SCL in 1 hour 17 minutesViña del Mar112 km away, SCL in 1 hour 30 minutesCuricó164 km away, SCL in 2 hours 22 minutesTalca224 km away, SCL in 3 hours 1 minutesValdivia729 km away, PMC in 2 hours 48 minutesOsorno807 km away, PMC in 1 hour 28 minutesPuerto Montt898 km away, PMC in 20 minutesIquique1490 km away, IQQ in 42 minutes
All 11 Chile cities are listed on the Chile 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 SCL, between Chile 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 36 minutes drive to SCL. 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 SCL, 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 Puente Alto list
01How far is Puente Alto from SCL?
By road it is 39 km and about 36 minutes from the centre of Puente Alto to Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Puente Alto against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Puente Alto without a change of aircraft?
SCL serves 55 airports nonstop across 18 countries with 16 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Puente Alto can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 55 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Puente Alto to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Puente Alto the best single change is Madrid (MAD), and MAD to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 2 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 21h 52m gate to gate, so an assignment between Puente Alto 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, and that is the point of posting Puente Alto separately. The desk needs people near SCL as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Puente Alto and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Puente Alto list and no deposit of any kind. The Academy is AED 199 once, and that AED 199 is added back on top of what you are paid for your first completed assignment.
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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