Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is CAI. 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. Suez is 1 hour 29 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 105 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Suez
If you are in Suez you are 1 hour 29 minutes from Cairo and 105 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 inSuez, Suez
Nearest gateCAI · Cairo
Drive to the aircraft126 km · 1 hour 29 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
There is no roster and no shift on the Suez list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 126 km to CAI, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of CAI is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Suez
The ground leg from Suez is 126 km to Cairo, about 1 hour 29 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Suez it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
126 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 1 hour 29 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by CAI the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Suez has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. SPX at 2 hours 11 minutes adds 14 nonstop destinations to the 105 at CAI.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAI | Cairo | 126 km | 1 hour 29 minutes | 105 |
| SPX | Giza Sphinx | 177 km | 2 hours 11 minutes | 14 |
Suez is a city of 700,000 people in Suez, 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
Scheduled reach from Cairo: 105 nonstop destinations, 55 countries, 51 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| 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 Suez 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 Suez
No public industrial file exists here for Suez, so none is claimed. Urgent hand carry demand in a city this size comes from deadlines, not from a single plant: a court filing, a machine that stopped, a batch that has to be tested.
Why a courier in Suez is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Suez is inside one. Suez sits inside the catchment of Cairo, 126 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from CAI. From Suez 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 Suez 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 Suez
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 29 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 Suez list
01How far is Suez from CAI?
1 hour 29 minutes and 126 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Suez rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Suez without a change of aircraft?
CAI serves 105 airports nonstop across 55 countries with 51 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Suez 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 Suez to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Suez 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 Suez 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. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Suez. The Suez list exists because somebody has to be near CAI when a consignment appears in Suez.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Suez 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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