The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 14 minutes from MDE. Everything else, the booking out of MDE, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Rionegro
Hand carry work from Rionegro and the surrounding Antioquia area. Departures run through Rionegro Jose Maria Córdova, 6 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 inRionegro, Antioquia
Nearest gateMDE · Rionegro
Drive to the aircraft6 km · 14 minutes
Nonstop from MDE39 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 1,200 to 2,000
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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 1,200 to 2,000A 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 Rionegro 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 MDE is 14 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Rionegro
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Rionegro. The nearest usable gate is MDE at 14 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
At 6 km this is a drive most people in Rionegro do without thinking about it, which is exactly what makes the city usable at short notice. Nothing else is close enough to Rionegro to be useful, so MDE carries every assignment. Its 39 nonstop destinations are the ceiling, and the desk plans around that rather than pretending otherwise.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDE | Rionegro Jose Maria Córdova | 6 km | 14 minutes | 39 |
Rionegro is a city of 128,000 people in Antioquia, 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.
What MDE reaches without a change
The only fact about MDE that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 39 airports, 17 countries, 14 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOG | Bogotá | Bogotá El Dorado | about 51 departures a day | 4 operators: Avianca, JetSMART, LATAM |
| CTG | Cartagena de Indias | Cartagena de Indias Rafael Nuñez | about 18 departures a day | 4 operators: Avianca, JetSMART |
| PTY | Tocumen | Tocumen | about 9 departures a day | 1 operator: Copa Airlines |
| CLO | Santiago de Cali | Santiago de Cali Alfonso Bonilla Aragon | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: Avianca, JetSMART, LATAM |
| SMR | Santa Marta | Santa Marta Simón Bolívar | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: Avianca, JetSMART |
| BAQ | Barranquilla | Barranquilla Ernesto Cortissoz | about 7 departures a day | 4 operators: Avianca, JetSMART, LATAM |
| ADZ | San Andrés | San Andrés Gustavo Rojas Pinilla | about 7 departures a day | 3 operators: Avianca, JetSMART, LATAM |
| MIA | Miami | Miami | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Avianca, American Airlines |
| MTR | Montería | Montería Los Garzones | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: Avianca, JetSMART, LATAM |
| CUC | Cúcuta | Cúcuta Camilo Daza | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Avianca, JetSMART |
Counting every airport a courier in Rionegro can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 39 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 Rionegro
No industrial register exists here for Rionegro and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 128,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Rionegro is useful to the desk
Being close to MDE is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Rionegro measures 14 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Rionegro the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Rionegro the best single change is New York (JFK), and JFK to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 2 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 20h 05m gate to gate, so an assignment between Rionegro 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 Rionegro
Medellin24 km away, MDE in 40 minutesManizales122 km away, CLO in 3 hours 54 minutesPereira153 km away, CLO in 3 hours 10 minutesCartago168 km away, CLO in 2 hours 35 minutesArmenia183 km away, CLO in 2 hours 57 minutesFacatativá187 km away, BOG in 47 minutesIbagué192 km away, BOG in 3 hours 20 minutesZipaquirá197 km away, BOG in 1 hour 1 minutesBogota224 km away, BOG in 20 minutesTunja233 km away, BOG in 2 hours 29 minutesTuluá248 km away, CLO in 1 hour 24 minutesGuadalajara de Buga271 km away, CLO in 1 hour 7 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 MDE, 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 14 minutes drive to MDE. 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 MDE, 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 Rionegro list
01How far is Rionegro from MDE?
By road it is 6 km and about 14 minutes from the centre of Rionegro to Rionegro Jose Maria Córdova. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Rionegro against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Rionegro without a change of aircraft?
MDE serves 39 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 14 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Rionegro can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 39 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Rionegro to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Rionegro the best single change is New York (JFK), and JFK to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 2 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 20h 05m gate to gate, so an assignment between Rionegro 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 Rionegro separately. The desk needs people near MDE as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Rionegro and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Rionegro 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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