Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is UIO. 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. Santo Domingo de los Colorados is 2 hours 50 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 22 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Santo Domingo de los Colorados
If you are in Santo Domingo de los Colorados you are 2 hours 50 minutes from Quito Mariscal Sucre and 22 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 inSanto Domingo de los Colorados, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
Nearest gateUIO · Quito
Drive to the aircraft188 km · 2 hours 50 minutes
Nonstop from UIO22 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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 188 km to UIO, board, land, clear, hand over. 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. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Santo Domingo de los Colorados
The ground leg from Santo Domingo de los Colorados is 188 km to Quito Mariscal Sucre, about 2 hours 50 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Santo Domingo de los Colorados it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
188 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 2 hours 50 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by UIO the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Everything out of Santo Domingo de los Colorados runs through UIO, because nothing else is within a sensible drive. Its 22 nonstop destinations are the honest limit of what you can be offered here.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UIO | Quito Mariscal Sucre | 188 km | 2 hours 50 minutes | 22 |
Santo Domingo de los Colorados is a city of 459,000 people in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, 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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What UIO reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Quito Mariscal Sucre: 22 nonstop destinations, 9 countries, 11 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GYE | Guayaquil | Guayaquil José Joaquín de Olmedo | about 18 departures a day | 3 operators: LATAM, Avianca, KLM |
| PTY | Tocumen | Tocumen | about 7 departures a day | 1 operator: Copa Airlines |
| BOG | Bogotá | Bogotá El Dorado | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, Avianca |
| CUE | Cuenca | Cuenca Mariscal Lamar | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, Avianca |
| MEC | Manta | Manta Eloy Alfaro | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, Avianca |
| MIA | Miami | Miami | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, American Airlines |
| GPS | Baltra | Baltra Seymour | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM, Avianca |
| LOH | La Toma (Catamayo) | La Toma (Catamayo) Camilo Ponce Enriquez | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator |
| OCC | Coca | Coca Francisco De Orellana | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: LATAM |
| IAH | Houston | Houston George Bush | about one departure a day | 1 operator: United Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Santo Domingo de los Colorados can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 22 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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados
The site holds no public industrial map for UIO, so this section says less rather than guessing. Consignments out of Santo Domingo de los Colorados are typically documents, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Santo Domingo de los Colorados is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Santo Domingo de los Colorados is inside one. Santo Domingo de los Colorados sits inside the catchment of Quito Mariscal Sucre, 188 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The connection to Dubai from Santo Domingo de los Colorados involves a change of aircraft. From Santo Domingo de los Colorados the best single change is Madrid (MAD), and MAD to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 19h 33m gate to gate, so an assignment between Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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 Ecuador list
Show the 11 closest, and how far each is from Santo Domingo de los Colorados
Quito72 km away, UIO in 43 minutesQuevedo92 km away, GYE in 2 hours 57 minutesLatacunga98 km away, UIO in 1 hour 51 minutesAmbato127 km away, UIO in 2 hours 24 minutesIbarra135 km away, UIO in 1 hour 37 minutesRiobamba167 km away, GYE in 3 hours 9 minutesPortoviejo168 km away, GYE in 2 hours 41 minutesManta189 km away, GYE in 2 hours 43 minutesGuayaquil230 km away, GYE in 11 minutesCuenca294 km away, GYE in 3 hours 33 minutesMachala345 km away, GYE in 2 hours 57 minutes
All 12 Ecuador cities are listed on the Ecuador 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 UIO, between Ecuador 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 50 minutes drive to UIO. 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 UIO, 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 Santo Domingo de los Colorados list
01How far is Santo Domingo de los Colorados from UIO?
2 hours 50 minutes and 188 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Santo Domingo de los Colorados rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Santo Domingo de los Colorados without a change of aircraft?
UIO serves 22 airports nonstop across 9 countries with 11 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Santo Domingo de los Colorados can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 22 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Santo Domingo de los Colorados to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Santo Domingo de los Colorados the best single change is Madrid (MAD), and MAD to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 19h 33m gate to gate, so an assignment between Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Santo Domingo de los Colorados. The Santo Domingo de los Colorados list exists because somebody has to be near UIO when a consignment appears in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Santo Domingo de los Colorados 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 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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