Krefeld sits inside the catchment of a working airport. Düsseldorf handles 176 nonstop destinations and 49 countries, and the drive from the centre is 31 minutes. A courier who can be airside at DUS inside that window is worth more to the desk than a courier in a bigger city who is stuck in traffic.
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On Board Courier, Krefeld
On board courier work out of Krefeld. You fly as a passenger, you carry one consignment, and the airport the desk puts you through is Düsseldorf, 31 minutes from the centre.
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 inKrefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia
Nearest gateDUS · Düsseldorf
Drive to the aircraft23 km · 31 minutes
Nonstop from DUS176 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
The paperwork exists before you leave Krefeld. Invoice, declaration, consignee details and, where the goods need it, the permit, all prepared in Dubai and sent to you before you leave Krefeld. The Gulf sector out of DUS is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Your job at the counter is to be calm, to answer plainly and to keep the consignment in sight.
Getting to the aircraft from Krefeld
These are the gates within reach of Krefeld by car. The nearest, DUS, is 23 km away, about 31 minutes, and each one is shown with what it reaches without a change of aircraft.
At 31 minutes the desk treats the drive as predictable rather than trivial, and the offer names the hour you should leave Krefeld. When DUS has nothing suitable the desk looks at CGN, 1 hour 8 minutes from Krefeld, which adds another 154 nonstop destinations to what you can be offered.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUS | Düsseldorf | 23 km | 31 minutes | 176 |
| CGN | Cologne Bonn | 83 km | 1 hour 8 minutes | 154 |
| EIN | Eindhoven | 92 km | 1 hour 20 minutes | 74 |
| FMO | Münster Osnabrück | 151 km | 1 hour 40 minutes | 17 |
Krefeld is a city of 238,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, 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 DUS reaches without a change
Below is what Düsseldorf actually flies, taken from the same scheduled route datthe rest of the site uses: 176 nonstop destinations, 56 carriers, ordered by average daily flights.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 21 departures a day | 5 operators: Eurowings, Condor, TUI fly |
| AYT | Antalya | Antalya | about 15 departures a day | 5 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings, Lufthansa |
| LHR | London | London Heathrow | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, British Airways |
| SAW | Istanbul | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: Pegasus Airlines, AJet |
| ZRH | Zurich | Zurich Kloten | about 7 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings, Condor, SWISS |
| VIE | Vienna | Vienna Schwechat | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Austrian Airlines |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: KLM |
| HER | Heraklion | Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis | about 6 departures a day | 4 operators: Eurowings, Condor, TUI fly |
| PRN | Prishtina | Prishtina Priština | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings |
Counting every airport a courier in Krefeld can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 231 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 DUS explains where the urgent traffic comes from. These are matters of public record, listed here as the reason work arises near Krefeld, and naming a site is not a claim that the company is a customer of ours.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and Wuppertal. Pharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. It sits on DUS, which is 31 minutes from Krefeld by road, and the sector is pharma.
- Siemens Energy, Berlin and Muelheim. Gas turbine manufacture and service. A turbine out of service is a power station out of service. It sits on DUS, which is 31 minutes from Krefeld by road, and the sector is energy.
- Ford, Dearborn and Cologne. Assembly on both sides of the Atlantic. A single engineering organisation split across two continents. It sits on CGN, which is 1 hour 8 minutes from Krefeld by road, and the sector is automotive.
Why a courier in Krefeld is useful to the desk
A city qualifies for this list when three things are true at once: a real airport within a sensible drive, a real nonstop board on it, and something in the area worth moving. Krefeld clears all three, at 31 minutes from DUS and 176 destinations.
Because the desk sits in Dubai, the connection back to the Gulf decides how often Krefeld is called. From Krefeld the Gulf is a single sector: DUS and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 24m in the air over 5,000 km, and it means a consignment can leave Krefeld 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 Krefeld
Duisburg18 km away, DUS in 19 minutesMönchengladbach19 km away, DUS in 36 minutesDüsseldorf20 km away, DUS in 19 minutesEssen34 km away, DUS in 28 minutesWuppertal42 km away, DUS in 40 minutesHerne52 km away, DUS in 44 minutesCologne53 km away, CGN in 23 minutesHagen64 km away, DUS in 1 hour 1 minutesDortmund66 km away, DUS in 52 minutesAachen70 km away, CGN in 1 hour 2 minutesBonn77 km away, CGN in 28 minutesHamm96 km away, FMO in 53 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 DUS 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 31 minutes drive to DUS. 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 DUS, 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 Krefeld list
01How far is Krefeld from DUS?
23 km, about 31 minutes by car from Krefeld. The desk works backwards from the bag drop at DUS, so the time it asks you to leave will look conservative and is meant to.
02What can I reach from Krefeld without a change of aircraft?
DUS serves 176 airports nonstop across 49 countries with 56 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Krefeld can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 231 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Krefeld to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Krefeld the Gulf is a single sector: DUS and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 24m in the air over 5,000 km, and it means a consignment can leave Krefeld 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. OnBoard Courier is a UAE company and the desk is in Dubai, but the courier list is worldwide. Living in Krefeld, 31 minutes from DUS, is a qualification rather than an obstacle.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Applying costs nothing and always will. A courier on the Krefeld list makes exactly one payment to us, the AED 199 Academy, and gets it back in full with the fee for the first assignment they complete.
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 DUS
A five minute form, a background check and a short course, and you are somebody the desk can call when a consignment has to leave Krefeld today.
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