The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 3 hours 20 minutes from BOG. Everything else, the booking out of BOG, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Ibagué
Hand carry work from Ibagué and the surrounding Tolima Department area. Departures run through Bogotá El Dorado, 195 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 inIbagué, Tolima Department
Nearest gateBOG · Bogotá
Drive to the aircraft195 km · 3 hours 20 minutes
Nonstop from BOG102 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 Ibagué 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 JFK, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive to BOG is 3 hours 20 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Ibagué
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Ibagué. The nearest usable gate is BOG at 3 hours 20 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
Two things follow from a 3 hours 20 minutes drive. The offers you see will carry more notice, and the desk will pay for a room near BOG rather than ask you to start before dawn. Nothing else is close enough to Ibagué to be useful, so BOG carries every assignment. Its 102 nonstop destinations are the ceiling, and the desk plans around that rather than pretending otherwise.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOG | Bogotá El Dorado | 195 km | 3 hours 20 minutes | 102 |
Ibagué is a city of 530,000 people in Tolima Department, and the clock there runs 9 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 Ibagué may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What BOG reaches without a change
The only fact about BOG that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 102 airports, 28 countries, 37 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDE | Rionegro | Rionegro Jose Maria Córdova | about 54 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Air Canada |
| CLO | Santiago de Cali | Santiago de Cali Alfonso Bonilla Aragon | about 39 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Air Canada |
| CTG | Cartagena de Indias | Cartagena de Indias Rafael Nuñez | about 39 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Air Canada |
| SMR | Santa Marta | Santa Marta Simón Bolívar | about 28 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Air Canada |
| BAQ | Barranquilla | Barranquilla Ernesto Cortissoz | about 27 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Air Canada |
| BGA | Bucaramanga | Bucaramanga Palonegro | about 23 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Air Canada |
| PTY | Tocumen | Tocumen | about 16 departures a day | 3 operators: Avianca, Turkish Airlines, Copa Airlines |
| MTR | Montería | Montería Los Garzones | about 15 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, LATAM |
| CUC | Cúcuta | Cúcuta Camilo Daza | about 14 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Aerolineas Argentinas |
| PEI | Pereira | Pereira Matecaña | about 13 departures a day | 6 operators: Avianca, GOL, Aerolineas Argentinas |
Counting every airport a courier in Ibagué can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 102 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 Ibagué
No industrial register exists here for Ibagué and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 530,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Ibagué is useful to the desk
Being close to BOG is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Ibagué measures 3 hours 20 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Ibagué the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Ibagué the best single change is New York (JFK), and JFK to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 20h 16m gate to gate, so an assignment between Ibagué 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 Colombia list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Ibagué
Armenia53 km away, CLO in 2 hours 57 minutesPereira69 km away, CLO in 3 hours 10 minutesManizales78 km away, CLO in 3 hours 54 minutesCartago86 km away, CLO in 2 hours 35 minutesFacatativá103 km away, BOG in 47 minutesTuluá117 km away, CLO in 1 hour 24 minutesBogota126 km away, BOG in 20 minutesGuadalajara de Buga135 km away, CLO in 1 hour 7 minutesZipaquirá148 km away, BOG in 1 hour 1 minutesPalmira158 km away, CLO in 26 minutesNeiva168 km away, BOG in 4 hours 32 minutesVillavicencio178 km away, BOG in 1 hour 47 minutes
All 25 Colombia cities are listed on the Colombia 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 BOG, between Colombia 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 3 hours 20 minutes drive to BOG. 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 BOG, 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 Ibagué list
01How far is Ibagué from BOG?
By road it is 195 km and about 3 hours 20 minutes from the centre of Ibagué to Bogotá El Dorado. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Ibagué against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Ibagué without a change of aircraft?
BOG serves 102 airports nonstop across 28 countries with 37 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Ibagué can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 102 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Ibagué to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Ibagué the best single change is New York (JFK), and JFK to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 20h 16m gate to gate, so an assignment between Ibagué 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 Ibagué separately. The desk needs people near BOG as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Ibagué and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Ibagué 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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