Assignments are offered, never assigned. The desk sends the routing, the timings and the fee for one specific trip out of TLS, and you accept it or you do not. Living 1 hour 6 minutes from the terminal simply means you see more of them, because the offers go out in order of who can physically make the flight.
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On Board Courier, Albi
Courier assignments for people based in Albi, Occitanie. The drive to TLS is 1 hour 6 minutes, the flight is booked and paid before you leave, and applying costs nothing.
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 inAlbi, Occitanie
Nearest gateTLS · Toulouse-Blagnac
Drive to the aircraft85 km · 1 hour 6 minutes
Nonstop from TLS90 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 travel light and you travel as yourself. Passport, phone, the consignment and whatever you need for one or two nights away from Albi. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of CDG, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive from Albi to TLS is 1 hour 6 minutes, and the desk builds the timings around it rather than around the timetable alone.
Getting to the aircraft from Albi
The airports a courier in Albi can actually use are listed below, nearest first by driving time. TLS leads at 1 hour 6 minutes and 85 km.
1 hour 6 minutes is a drive you plan rather than dread. From Albi the desk names the hour you should leave, not only the hour the aircraft goes. TLS is the whole of the Albi picture: 90 nonstop destinations, 1 hour 6 minutes of road, and no fallback gate within reach.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TLS | Toulouse-Blagnac | 85 km | 1 hour 6 minutes | 90 |
Albi is a city of 52,000 people in Occitanie, and the clock there runs 2 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 3 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 TLS reaches without a change
Nonstop reach decides how quickly a consignment leaves Albi. TLS serves 90 airports directly in 23 countries, and these are the routes with the most departures.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDG | Paris | Paris Charles de Gaulle | about 13 departures a day | 2 operators: Air France |
| ORY | Paris | Paris Orly | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: easyJet, Transavia France |
| LYS | Lyon | Lyon Saint-Exupéry | about 5 departures a day | 4 operators: easyJet, Air France |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: KLM |
| LHR | London | London Heathrow | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: British Airways |
| NTE | Nantes | Nantes Atlantique | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: easyJet |
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Iberia |
| LIS | Lisbon | Lisbon Portela | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal |
| BRU | Brussels | Brussels | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Brussels Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Albi can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 90 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
The industry inside this catchment
The plants and facilities below are public knowledge and sit within reach of TLS. They are named to explain the pattern of urgent work near Albi and for no other reason.
- Airbus, Toulouse Blagnac. Final assembly for the A320, A330 and A350 families, and the group head office. An assembly line that stops waits for one part, and Toulouse is where the aircraft is standing. It sits on TLS, which is 1 hour 6 minutes from Albi by road, and the sector is aerospace.
Why a courier in Albi is useful to the desk
The desk would rather use a courier who already lives in Albi than fly one in. It costs less, it is faster, and it removes an entire positioning flight into TLS from the timeline. That is the whole commercial case for keeping names in Albi, 1 hour 6 minutes from TLS.
The Gulf routing out of TLS is a connection, and the desk plans it as one. From Albi the best single change is Paris (CDG), and CDG to DXB is flown by Air France and Emirates, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 9h 22m gate to gate, so an assignment between Albi 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 France list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Albi
Castres37 km away, TLS in 1 hour 28 minutesMontauban64 km away, TLS in 47 minutesToulouse67 km away, TLS in 23 minutesCarcassonne81 km away, TLS in 1 hour 17 minutesNarbonne108 km away, TLS in 1 hour 51 minutesBéziers108 km away, TLS in 2 hours 8 minutesMontpellier143 km away, MRS in 1 hour 54 minutesBrive-la-Gaillarde145 km away, TLS in 2 hours 19 minutesNîmes177 km away, MRS in 1 hour 18 minutesTarbes184 km away, TLS in 1 hour 51 minutesArles201 km away, MRS in 1 hourPau213 km away, TLS in 2 hours 14 minutes
All 81 France cities are listed on the France 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 TLS, between France 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 6 minutes drive to TLS. 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 TLS, 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 Albi list
01How far is Albi from TLS?
A measured 85 km and about 1 hour 6 minutes from Albi to TLS. The desk works back from the check in deadline, so the leaving time it gives you will look early and is meant to.
02What can I reach from Albi without a change of aircraft?
TLS serves 90 airports nonstop across 23 countries with 33 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Albi can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 90 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Albi to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Albi the best single change is Paris (CDG), and CDG to DXB is flown by Air France and Emirates, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 9h 22m gate to gate, so an assignment between Albi 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. Living 1 hour 6 minutes from TLS is the qualification. If the desk only wanted people in Dubai it would not keep a Albi list at all.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Applying from Albi is free and stays free. One payment exists in the whole process, the AED 199 Academy, and that amount is added back on top of the fee for your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
The fee for a trip out of TLS is not a rate card applied afterwards. It is a number for one named routing, sent to you in Albi before you accept anything.
Apply to fly out of TLS
Join the Albi list and see the offers as they come. The desk works Occitanie through TLS, and the fee is written down before you agree to anything.
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