The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 56 minutes from NTE. Everything else, the booking out of NTE, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Cholet
Hand carry work from Cholet and the surrounding Pays de la Loire area. Departures run through Nantes Atlantique, 64 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 inCholet, Pays de la Loire
Nearest gateNTE · Nantes
Drive to the aircraft64 km · 56 minutes
Nonstop from NTE89 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
Some trips out of Cholet 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 CDG, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive to NTE is 56 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Cholet
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Cholet. The nearest usable gate is NTE at 56 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
A drive of 56 minutes is the ordinary case here: long enough to plan, short enough to accept a departure the same day. A courier in Cholet has one airport and no fallback. That is worth knowing before you join the list, and it is why the NTE board is set out in full below.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTE | Nantes Atlantique | 64 km | 56 minutes | 89 |
Cholet is a city of 53,000 people in Pays de la Loire, 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 NTE reaches without a change
The only fact about NTE that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 89 airports, 25 countries, 23 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDG | Paris | Paris Charles de Gaulle | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: Air France |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 5 departures a day | 4 operators: easyJet, Transavia France, Vueling |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: KLM |
| LYS | Lyon | Lyon Saint-Exupéry | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: easyJet, Air France |
| MRS | Marseille | Marseille Provence | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Transavia France, Ryanair |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Vueling |
| RAK | Marrakech | Marrakech Menara | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: easyJet, Transavia France |
| AJA | Ajaccio/Napoléon Bonaparte | Ajaccio/Napoléon Bonaparte Ajaccio-Napoléon Bonaparte | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: easyJet, Transavia France |
| NCE | Nice | Nice -Côte d'Azur | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: easyJet |
| OPO | Porto | Porto Francisco de Sá Carneiro | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: easyJet, Transavia France |
Counting every airport a courier in Cholet can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 89 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 industrial geography around NTE is public knowledge. It appears here because it explains the pattern of short notice work near Cholet, and it makes no claim about who we work for.
- Airbus, Nantes and Saint-Nazaire. Centre fuselage sections and the nose section. Structural sections feed the Toulouse and Hamburg lines directly. It sits on NTE, which is 56 minutes from Cholet by road, and the sector is aerospace.
Why a courier in Cholet is useful to the desk
Being close to NTE is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Cholet measures 56 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Cholet the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Cholet 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 04m gate to gate, so an assignment between Cholet 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 Cholet
Angers52 km away, NTE in 1 hour 17 minutesNantes54 km away, NTE in 20 minutesLa Roche-sur-Yon60 km away, NTE in 1 hourNiort88 km away, NTE in 1 hour 46 minutesLa Rochelle102 km away, NTE in 1 hour 52 minutesSaint-Nazaire104 km away, NTE in 58 minutesLaval113 km away, NTE in 2 hours 12 minutesRennes131 km away, NTE in 1 hour 33 minutesLe Mans133 km away, ORY in 2 hours 12 minutesVannes157 km away, NTE in 1 hour 30 minutesAngoulême176 km away, BOD in 1 hour 44 minutesBlois177 km away, ORY in 1 hour 56 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 NTE, 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 56 minutes drive to NTE. 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 NTE, 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 Cholet list
01How far is Cholet from NTE?
The measured route is 64 km and about 56 minutes from the centre of Cholet to Nantes Atlantique. The desk plans backwards from the bag drop at NTE, so the leaving time you are given will look early on purpose.
02What can I reach from Cholet without a change of aircraft?
NTE serves 89 airports nonstop across 25 countries with 23 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Cholet can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 89 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Cholet to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Cholet 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 04m gate to gate, so an assignment between Cholet 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 in Cholet changes which offers you see, not whether you qualify. The desk records your distance from NTE when you apply for exactly that reason.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No fee to join the Cholet list and no deposit of any kind. The AED 199 Academy is the only payment a courier in Cholet makes to us, and that amount is added back on top of your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
The fee reflects the lane out of NTE, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate. It is agreed in writing before you leave Cholet.
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