Al Mansurah is on the list because CAI is reachable and busy. 105 scheduled nonstop destinations and 51 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 1 hour 48 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Al Mansurah has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Al Mansurah
Time critical hand carry assignments from Al Mansurah. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 1 hour 48 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at CAI.
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 inAl Mansurah, Dakahlia
Nearest gateCAI · Cairo
Drive to the aircraft130 km · 1 hour 48 minutes
Nonstop from CAI105 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
You will usually know the day before, sometimes only in the morning. The desk sends the routing out of CAI, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 1 hour 48 minutes is timed backwards from the check in deadline rather than the departure. The Gulf sector out of CAI is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss.
Getting to the aircraft from Al Mansurah
Measured door to terminal, Al Mansurah to CAI is 130 km and 1 hour 48 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Al Mansurah for a departure this evening.
At 1 hour 48 minutes the drive from Al Mansurah is the risky half of the trip, so it is planned rather than assumed: an earlier departure from home, and where the flight is early, a room near CAI paid by the desk. A backup gate changes what can be promised out of Al Mansurah. From Al Mansurah, Giza Sphinx is 2 hours 13 minutes away and flies to 14 airports nonstop, so the desk has somewhere to move a consignment when the first flight goes.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAI | Cairo | 130 km | 1 hour 48 minutes | 105 |
| SPX | Giza Sphinx | 160 km | 2 hours 13 minutes | 14 |
Al Mansurah is a city of 622,000 people in Dakahlia, and the clock there runs 1 hour behind the Emirates in summer and 2 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 CAI reaches without a change
The relevant question about CAI is not how big it is but what it flies. 105 nonstop destinations across 55 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JED | Jeddah | Jeddah King Abdulaziz | about 45 departures a day | 6 operators: EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas |
| RUH | Riyadh | Riyadh King Khaled | about 31 departures a day | 6 operators: EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas |
| MED | Medina | Medina Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz | about 16 departures a day | 5 operators: EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas |
| DMM | Ad Dammam | Ad Dammam King Fahd | about 13 departures a day | 6 operators: EgyptAir, flyadeal, flynas |
| KWI | Kuwait City | Kuwait City Kuwait | about 11 departures a day | 6 operators: EgyptAir, Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways |
| DXB | Dubai | Dubai | about 10 departures a day | 2 operators: EgyptAir, Emirates |
| AMM | Amman | Amman Queen Alia | about 9 departures a day | 4 operators: EgyptAir, Royal Jordanian |
| AUH | Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi Zayed | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: EgyptAir, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Etihad Airways |
| DOH | Doha | Doha Hamad | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: EgyptAir, Qatar Airways |
| SHJ | Sharjah | Sharjah | about 8 departures a day | 4 operators: EgyptAir, Air Arabia |
Counting every airport a courier in Al Mansurah can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 108 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 Al Mansurah
The site does not hold a public industrial file for the CAI catchment, so this page will not invent one. What it can say honestly is that Al Mansurah generates the ordinary urgent traffic every working city generates: signed originals, spare parts, samples and small high value items that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Al Mansurah is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of Dakahlia is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to CAI. Al Mansurah is near enough: 1 hour 48 minutes to CAI, on a board with 105 nonstop destinations.
A consignment moving between Al Mansurah and the Gulf has a straightforward path. From Al Mansurah the Gulf is a single sector: CAI and DXB are joined nonstop, about 10 departures a day, flown by EgyptAir and Emirates. That is roughly 3h 18m in the air over 2,400 km, and it means a consignment can leave Al Mansurah in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Egypt list
Show the 4 closest, and how far each is from Al Mansurah
All 5 Egypt cities are listed on the Egypt 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 CAI and the other airports listed above, between Egypt 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 48 minutes drive to CAI. 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 CAI, 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 Al Mansurah list
01How far is Al Mansurah from CAI?
About 1 hour 48 minutes, 130 km by road. The desk has that number for every city on the list and uses it to decide who gets called for a departure out of CAI tonight.
02What can I reach from Al Mansurah without a change of aircraft?
CAI serves 105 airports nonstop across 55 countries with 51 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Al Mansurah can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 108 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Al Mansurah to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Al Mansurah the Gulf is a single sector: CAI and DXB are joined nonstop, about 10 departures a day, flown by EgyptAir and Emirates. That is roughly 3h 18m in the air over 2,400 km, and it means a consignment can leave Al Mansurah 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. Most assignments touch the Emirates because the desk is there, but couriers on this list live in Al Mansurah and fly from CAI. Being in Al Mansurah changes which offers you see, not whether you can be on the list.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. Applying is free, screening is free, and being on the Al Mansurah list is free. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and it comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier in Al Mansurah ever makes to us.
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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