Assignments are offered, never assigned. The desk sends the routing, the timings and the fee for one specific trip out of FRA, and you accept it or you do not. Living 1 hour 17 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, Koblenz
Courier assignments for people based in Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz. The drive to FRA is 1 hour 17 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 inKoblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz
Nearest gateFRA · Frankfurt-am-Main
Drive to the aircraft116 km · 1 hour 17 minutes
Nonstop from FRA274 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 Koblenz. The Gulf sector out of FRA is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. The drive from Koblenz to FRA is 1 hour 17 minutes, and the desk builds the timings around it rather than around the timetable alone.
Getting to the aircraft from Koblenz
The airports a courier in Koblenz can actually use are listed below, nearest first by driving time. FRA leads at 1 hour 17 minutes and 116 km.
Two things follow from a 1 hour 17 minutes drive. The offers you see will carry more notice, and the desk will pay for a room near FRA rather than ask you to start before dawn. A second airport is within reach of Koblenz: Cologne Bonn at 1 hour 17 minutes, with 154 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | 116 km | 1 hour 17 minutes | 274 |
| CGN | Cologne Bonn | 94 km | 1 hour 17 minutes | 154 |
| LUX | Luxembourg -Findel | 167 km | 1 hour 47 minutes | 117 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf | 157 km | 1 hour 53 minutes | 176 |
Koblenz is a city of 107,000 people in Rheinland-Pfalz, 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 FRA reaches without a change
Nonstop reach decides how quickly a consignment leaves Koblenz. FRA serves 274 airports directly in 89 countries, and these are the routes with the most departures.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 17 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Condor, Kuwait Airways |
| BER | Berlin | Berlin Brandenburg | about 16 departures a day | 3 operators: Lufthansa, Condor |
| VIE | Vienna | Vienna Schwechat | about 16 departures a day | 2 operators: Condor, Austrian Airlines |
| LHR | London | London Heathrow | about 15 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, British Airways |
| ZRH | Zurich | Zurich Kloten | about 15 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Condor, Air Dolomiti |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 14 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Condor, TUI fly |
| CDG | Paris | Paris Charles de Gaulle | about 14 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Condor, Air France |
| HAM | Hamburg | Hamburg | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: Lufthansa, Condor |
| FCO | Rome | Rome Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino | about 14 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Condor, easyJet |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 11 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air |
Counting every airport a courier in Koblenz can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 355 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
What is made near FRA shapes what moves out of it in a hurry. The sites below are a matter of public record. Listing one is an explanation of why Koblenz generates urgent work, not a statement that the company works with us.
- Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim. Research and biopharmaceutical production. Twenty five minutes from the busiest cargo airport in Europe. It sits on FRA, which is 1 hour 17 minutes from Koblenz by road, and the sector is pharma.
- Merck KGaA, Darmstadt. Healthcare, life science and electronics. Frankfurt is effectively the site's own airport. It sits on FRA, which is 1 hour 17 minutes from Koblenz by road, and the sector is pharma.
- Sanofi, Frankfurt Hoechst and Paris. Insulin production and research. One company, two countries, one supply chain. It sits on FRA, which is 1 hour 17 minutes from Koblenz by road, and the sector is pharma.
Why a courier in Koblenz is useful to the desk
The desk would rather use a courier who already lives in Koblenz than fly one in. It costs less, it is faster, and it removes an entire positioning flight into FRA from the timeline. That is the whole commercial case for keeping names in Koblenz, 1 hour 17 minutes from FRA.
For assignments that touch the Emirates the routing out of FRA is simple. From Koblenz the Gulf is a single sector: FRA and DXB are joined nonstop, about 3 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 13m in the air over 4,850 km, and it means a consignment can leave Koblenz 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 Koblenz
Bonn54 km away, CGN in 28 minutesWiesbaden56 km away, FRA in 29 minutesCologne78 km away, CGN in 23 minutesDarmstadt93 km away, FRA in 25 minutesWuppertal105 km away, DUS in 40 minutesDüsseldorf112 km away, DUS in 19 minutesHagen112 km away, DUS in 1 hour 1 minutesMannheim115 km away, FRA in 54 minutesAachen116 km away, CGN in 1 hour 2 minutesMönchengladbach122 km away, DUS in 36 minutesEssen129 km away, DUS in 28 minutesDortmund129 km away, DUS in 52 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 FRA 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 17 minutes drive to FRA. 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 FRA, 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 Koblenz list
01How far is Koblenz from FRA?
By road it is 116 km and about 1 hour 17 minutes from the centre of Koblenz to Frankfurt-am-Main. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Koblenz against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Koblenz without a change of aircraft?
FRA serves 274 airports nonstop across 89 countries with 92 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Koblenz can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 355 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Koblenz to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Koblenz the Gulf is a single sector: FRA and DXB are joined nonstop, about 3 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 13m in the air over 4,850 km, and it means a consignment can leave Koblenz 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, and that is the point of posting Koblenz separately. The desk needs people near FRA as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Koblenz and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Koblenz list and no deposit of any kind. The Academy is AED 199 once, and that AED 199 is added back on top of what you are paid for your first completed assignment.
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.
Apply to fly out of FRA
Join the Koblenz list and see the offers as they come. The desk works Rheinland-Pfalz through FRA, and the fee is written down before you agree to anything.
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