Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is LEJ. 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. Halle is 30 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 85 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Halle
If you are in Halle you are 30 minutes from Leipzig Halle and 85 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 inHalle, Saxony-Anhalt
Nearest gateLEJ · Leipzig
Drive to the aircraft33 km · 30 minutes
Nonstop from LEJ85 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 Halle list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 33 km to LEJ, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of LEJ 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 Halle
The ground leg from Halle is 33 km to Leipzig Halle, about 30 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Halle it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
A drive of 30 minutes is comfortable for a same day departure as long as the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most do. Halle has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. DRS at 1 hour 48 minutes adds 16 nonstop destinations to the 85 at LEJ.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEJ | Leipzig Halle | 33 km | 30 minutes | 85 |
| DRS | Dresden | 154 km | 1 hour 48 minutes | 16 |
| BER | Berlin Brandenburg | 168 km | 1 hour 50 minutes | 164 |
Halle is a city of 238,000 people in Saxony-Anhalt, 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 LEJ reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Leipzig Halle: 85 nonstop destinations, 37 countries, 22 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Eurowings |
| AYT | Antalya | Antalya | about 5 departures a day | 3 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa |
| HER | Heraklion | Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator |
| HRG | Hurghada | Hurghada | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators |
| BRU | Brussels | Brussels | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator |
| RHO | Rodes Island | Rodes Island Diagoras | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator |
| TLV | Tel Aviv Yafo | Tel Aviv Yafo Ben Gurion | about one departure a day | 1 operator |
| CFU | Kerkyra Island | Kerkyra Island Corfu | about one departure a day | 0 operators |
Counting every airport a courier in Halle can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 192 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 public industrial geography around LEJ explains where the urgent traffic comes from. These are matters of public record, listed here as the reason work arises near Halle, and naming a site is not a claim that the company is a customer of ours.
- BMW, Leipzig. Assembly and battery module production. Leipzig is also a freight hub, which changes the options when a part is late. It sits on LEJ, which is 30 minutes from Halle by road, and the sector is automotive.
- Infineon, Dresden. Power semiconductor fabrication. Silicon Saxony is Europe's densest chip cluster. It sits on LEJ, which is 30 minutes from Halle by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
- GlobalFoundries, Dresden. Wafer fabrication. The same cluster, the same urgency. It sits on LEJ, which is 30 minutes from Halle by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
Why a courier in Halle is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Halle is inside one. Halle sits inside the catchment of Leipzig Halle, 33 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 LEJ. From Halle the Gulf is a single sector: LEJ and DWC are joined nonstop, about 3 departures a week, flown by scheduled carriers. That is roughly 5h 59m in the air over 4,650 km, and it means a consignment can leave Halle in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Germany list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Halle
Leipzig31 km away, LEJ in 26 minutesMagdeburg76 km away, LEJ in 1 hour 16 minutesErfurt86 km away, LEJ in 1 hour 40 minutesChemnitz98 km away, DRS in 1 hour 11 minutesPotsdam126 km away, BER in 40 minutesDresden131 km away, DRS in 33 minutesBrunswick132 km away, HAJ in 52 minutesWolfsburg133 km away, HAJ in 1 hour 4 minutesGöttingen142 km away, HAJ in 1 hour 31 minutesBerlin152 km away, BER in 45 minutesKassel173 km away, FRA in 1 hour 54 minutesHanover183 km away, HAJ in 23 minutes
All 56 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 LEJ 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 30 minutes drive to LEJ. 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 LEJ, 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 Halle list
01How far is Halle from LEJ?
30 minutes and 33 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Halle rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Halle without a change of aircraft?
LEJ serves 85 airports nonstop across 37 countries with 22 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Halle can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 192 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Halle to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Halle the Gulf is a single sector: LEJ and DWC are joined nonstop, about 3 departures a week, flown by scheduled carriers. That is roughly 5h 59m in the air over 4,650 km, and it means a consignment can leave Halle 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 Halle. The Halle list exists because somebody has to be near LEJ when a consignment appears in Saxony-Anhalt.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Halle 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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