Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is SXB. 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. Baden-Baden is 1 hour out, which puts you inside the window for most of 33 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Baden-Baden
If you are in Baden-Baden you are 1 hour from Strasbourg and 33 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 inBaden-Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg
Nearest gateSXB · Strasbourg
Drive to the aircraft76 km · 1 hour
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
There is no roster and no shift on the Baden-Baden list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 76 km to SXB, board, land, clear, hand over. 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. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Baden-Baden
The ground leg from Baden-Baden is 76 km to Strasbourg, about 1 hour. Where a second airport is within reach of Baden-Baden it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
A drive of 1 hour is comfortable for a same day departure as long as the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most do. Baden-Baden has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. STR at 1 hour 21 minutes adds 127 nonstop destinations to the 33 at SXB.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SXB | Strasbourg | 76 km | 1 hour | 33 |
| STR | Stuttgart | 113 km | 1 hour 21 minutes | 127 |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | 168 km | 1 hour 48 minutes | 274 |
| BSL | Bâle/Mulhouse Euro Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg | 172 km | 1 hour 54 minutes | 122 |
Baden-Baden is a city of 57,000 people in Baden-Wurttemberg, 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
Scheduled reach from Strasbourg: 33 nonstop destinations, 11 countries, 9 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| 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 Baden-Baden can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 315 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 Baden-Baden
The site holds no public industrial map for SXB, so this section says less rather than guessing. Consignments out of Baden-Baden are typically documents, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Baden-Baden is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Baden-Baden is inside one. Baden-Baden sits inside the catchment of Strasbourg, 76 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The connection to Dubai from Baden-Baden involves a change of aircraft. From Baden-Baden 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 Baden-Baden 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 Germany list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Baden-Baden
Karlsruhe30 km away, STR in 58 minutesPforzheim36 km away, STR in 38 minutesOffenburg39 km away, SXB in 29 minutesLahr54 km away, SXB in 40 minutesSindelfingen57 km away, STR in 18 minutesNeustadt an der Weinstraße66 km away, FRA in 1 hour 9 minutesStuttgart69 km away, STR in 20 minutesLudwigsburg71 km away, STR in 37 minutesReutlingen77 km away, STR in 28 minutesHeidelberg79 km away, FRA in 55 minutesVillingen-Schwenningen80 km away, STR in 1 hour 15 minutesMannheim83 km away, FRA in 54 minutes
All 136 Germany cities are listed on the Germany 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 Germany 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 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 Baden-Baden list
01How far is Baden-Baden from SXB?
1 hour and 76 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Baden-Baden rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Baden-Baden without a change of aircraft?
SXB serves 33 airports nonstop across 11 countries with 9 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Baden-Baden can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 315 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Baden-Baden to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Baden-Baden 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 Baden-Baden 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. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Baden-Baden. The Baden-Baden list exists because somebody has to be near SXB when a consignment appears in Baden-Wurttemberg.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Baden-Baden 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 offer, the routing out of SXB and the fee arrive together. You reply yes or no, and the yes is the agreement for that single trip out of SXB.
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