The work is one consignment, one cabin, one signature. You collect it in or near Colmar, you keep it with you, you present the prepared paperwork at customs and you hand it over in person. What makes Colmar useful is that Strasbourg is only 60 km away, so the collection and the departure can happen in the same afternoon.
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On Board Courier, Colmar
Carry sealed, urgent consignments out of Colmar. SXB sits 60 km north of the city and flies to 33 airports without a change of aircraft.
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 inColmar, Grand Est
Nearest gateSXB · Strasbourg
Drive to the aircraft60 km · 45 minutes
Nonstop from SXB33 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
From the offer to the handover, a trip out of SXB tends to run under thirty hours. 45 minutes to Strasbourg, the sector itself, customs at the far end, and a signature. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of NCE, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. Everything outside the cabin, the transfers, the hotel where the routing needs one, is booked and paid by the desk.
Getting to the aircraft from Colmar
A courier in Colmar is only as fast as the road in front of them. Colmar to SXB is 60 km, 45 minutes, and the airports below are ordered by that drive rather than by size.
45 minutes of road is the ordinary case on this list. It is short enough for a same day flight out of SXB and long enough that the desk builds slack into the timings. Two gates serve Colmar in practice. BSL is 46 minutes away with 122 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept it.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SXB | Strasbourg | 60 km | 45 minutes | 33 |
| BSL | Bâle/Mulhouse Euro Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg | 62 km | 46 minutes | 122 |
| ZRH | Zurich Kloten | 167 km | 2 hours 11 minutes | 223 |
Colmar is a city of 65,000 people in Grand Est, 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 SXB reaches without a change
SXB publishes 33 nonstop routes. For a courier in Colmar that is the difference between waiting for tomorrow and boarding tonight, so the busiest of them are set out below with their operators.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCE | Nice | Nice -Côte d'Azur | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: easyJet |
| LYS | Lyon | Lyon Saint-Exupéry | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator |
| AJA | Ajaccio/Napoléon Bonaparte | Ajaccio/Napoléon Bonaparte Ajaccio-Napoléon Bonaparte | about one departure a day | 1 operator |
| TLS | Toulouse-Blagnac | Toulouse-Blagnac | about one departure a day | 1 operator |
| BIA | Bastia/Poretta | Bastia/Poretta Bastia-Poretta | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator |
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: Iberia |
| TUN | Tunis | Tunis Carthage | about 5 departures a week | 2 operators: Tunisair |
| ALG | Algiers | Algiers Houari Boumediene | about 4 departures a week | 2 operators: Transavia France, Air Algerie |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 4 departures a week | 2 operators: easyJet |
| FSC | Figari Sud-Corse | Figari Sud-Corse | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator |
Counting every airport a courier in Colmar can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 248 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
A page that claims customers it does not have is worthless. What follows is public industrial geography around SXB, shown because it explains why consignments leave Colmar in a hurry.
- Novartis, Basel. Research and manufacturing at the group head office. Basel sits where three countries meet and uses three airports. It sits on BSL, which is 46 minutes from Colmar by road, and the sector is pharma.
- Roche, Basel and Kaiseraugst. Pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Diagnostics move on shorter clocks than most freight can hold. It sits on BSL, which is 46 minutes from Colmar by road, and the sector is pharma.
- Lonza, Visp and Basel. Contract manufacturing of biologics. Contract manufacturing runs to somebody else's deadline, which makes it tighter. It sits on BSL, which is 46 minutes from Colmar by road, and the sector is pharma.
Why a courier in Colmar is useful to the desk
There is a second reason Colmar matters, and it is the return leg. A courier who lives here can take a consignment inbound to Grand Est and be home the same evening, which is cheaper and faster than flying somebody out from the Gulf and back.
A change of aircraft stands between Colmar and the Gulf, which changes the timings rather than the work. From Colmar the best single change is Nice (NCE), and NCE to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 8h 46m gate to gate, so an assignment between Colmar 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 Colmar
Mulhouse37 km away, BSL in 32 minutesBelfort61 km away, BSL in 54 minutesStrasbourg63 km away, SXB in 19 minutesNancy109 km away, LUX in 1 hour 37 minutesBesançon136 km away, BSL in 1 hour 50 minutesMetz145 km away, LUX in 53 minutesThionville167 km away, LUX in 34 minutesChalon-sur-Saône237 km away, LYS in 1 hour 31 minutesChâlons-en-Champagne241 km away, CDG in 2 hours 5 minutesTroyes244 km away, ORY in 1 hour 56 minutesAnnecy259 km away, GVA in 53 minutesBourg-en-Bresse263 km away, LYS in 52 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 SXB and the other airports listed above, 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 45 minutes drive to SXB. 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 SXB, 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 Colmar list
01How far is Colmar from SXB?
The route from Colmar to SXB runs 60 km and takes about 45 minutes with clear roads. Traffic between Colmar and SXB is allowed for on top, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer either way.
02What can I reach from Colmar without a change of aircraft?
SXB serves 33 airports nonstop across 11 countries with 9 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Colmar can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 248 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Colmar to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Colmar the best single change is Nice (NCE), and NCE to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 8h 46m gate to gate, so an assignment between Colmar 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 residence visa, no Emirates address and no relocation. A courier on this list lives in Colmar and flies out of SXB, which is exactly what the desk needs.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
There is no application fee, no placement fee and no deposit, in Colmar or anywhere else. The AED 199 Academy is the single payment, and it is returned in full with your first assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
It is written down before a courier in Colmar commits to anything. The desk sends the fee for that specific trip out of SXB, you accept in writing, and it is paid by transfer after the consignee signs.
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