The work is one consignment, one cabin, one signature. You collect it in or near Pforzheim, you keep it with you, you present the prepared paperwork at customs and you hand it over in person. What makes Pforzheim useful is that Stuttgart is only 49 km away, so the collection and the departure can happen in the same afternoon.
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On Board Courier, Pforzheim
Carry sealed, urgent consignments out of Pforzheim. STR sits 49 km south east of the city and flies to 127 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 inPforzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg
Nearest gateSTR · Stuttgart
Drive to the aircraft49 km · 38 minutes
Nonstop from STR127 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 STR tends to run under thirty hours. 38 minutes to Stuttgart, the sector itself, customs at the far end, and a signature. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of IST, 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 Pforzheim
A courier in Pforzheim is only as fast as the road in front of them. Pforzheim to STR is 49 km, 38 minutes, and the airports below are ordered by that drive rather than by size.
38 minutes of road is the ordinary case on this list. It is short enough for a same day flight out of STR and long enough that the desk builds slack into the timings. Pforzheim is not tied to one gate. SXB is 1 hour 23 minutes from Pforzheim and serves 33 nonstop destinations of its own, and the desk uses whichever airport has the flight rather than whichever is nearest.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STR | Stuttgart | 49 km | 38 minutes | 127 |
| SXB | Strasbourg | 119 km | 1 hour 23 minutes | 33 |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | 152 km | 1 hour 38 minutes | 274 |
Pforzheim is a city of 119,000 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 STR reaches without a change
STR publishes 127 nonstop routes. For a courier in Pforzheim 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings, TUI fly, Condor |
| AYT | Antalya | Antalya | about 9 departures a day | 4 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| SAW | Istanbul | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: Pegasus Airlines, AJet |
| IST | Istanbul | Istanbul | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Turkish Airlines |
| PRN | Prishtina | Prishtina Priština | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: KLM |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Lufthansa |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Vueling |
| ADB | Izmir | Adnan Menderes | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| SKG | Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki Macedonia | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Aegean Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Pforzheim can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 297 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 following facilities sit in the catchment of STR. They are public industrial geography and appear here to explain why consignments move at short notice around Pforzheim, not as a customer list.
- Mercedes-Benz, Sindelfingen and Untertuerkheim. S-Class assembly, powertrain and research. Stuttgart is the densest automotive engineering cluster in Europe. It sits on STR, which is 38 minutes from Pforzheim by road, and the sector is automotive.
- Porsche, Zuffenhausen. Sports car and engine assembly. Low volume, high value, and intolerant of a missing component. It sits on STR, which is 38 minutes from Pforzheim by road, and the sector is automotive.
- Audi, Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm. Assembly, aluminium body construction and engines. Two plants, two airports, one takt. It sits on STR, which is 38 minutes from Pforzheim by road, and the sector is automotive.
- Zeiss SMT, Oberkochen. Optics for lithography systems. The optics that make lithography possible, made in one place. It sits on STR, which is 38 minutes from Pforzheim by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
Why a courier in Pforzheim is useful to the desk
There is a second reason Pforzheim matters, and it is the return leg. A courier who lives here can take a consignment inbound to Baden-Wurttemberg and be home the same evening, which is cheaper and faster than flying somebody out from the Gulf and back.
The Gulf is one change away from STR rather than nonstop, which is worth stating plainly. From Pforzheim the best single change is Istanbul (IST), and IST to DXB is flown by Emirates and flydubai, about 5 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 8h 07m gate to gate, so an assignment between Pforzheim 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 Pforzheim
Karlsruhe26 km away, STR in 58 minutesStuttgart37 km away, STR in 20 minutesHeilbronn47 km away, STR in 55 minutesReutlingen57 km away, STR in 28 minutesHeidelberg58 km away, FRA in 55 minutesMannheim69 km away, FRA in 54 minutesUlm109 km away, STR in 55 minutesDarmstadt110 km away, FRA in 25 minutesFreiburg117 km away, BSL in 59 minutesSaarbrücken129 km away, LUX in 1 hour 15 minutesWürzburg136 km away, NUE in 1 hour 6 minutesWiesbaden138 km away, FRA in 29 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 STR 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 38 minutes drive to STR. 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 STR, 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 Pforzheim list
01How far is Pforzheim from STR?
The route from Pforzheim to STR runs 49 km and takes about 38 minutes with clear roads. Traffic between Pforzheim and STR is allowed for on top, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer either way.
02What can I reach from Pforzheim without a change of aircraft?
STR serves 127 airports nonstop across 37 countries with 31 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Pforzheim can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 297 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Pforzheim to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Pforzheim the best single change is Istanbul (IST), and IST to DXB is flown by Emirates and flydubai, about 5 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 8h 07m gate to gate, so an assignment between Pforzheim 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 desk is in Dubai and many lanes start there, but a courier in Pforzheim is called precisely because they are not in Dubai. Your distance from STR is recorded when you apply so the offers you see are ones you can actually reach.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Nothing to apply and nothing to be screened, in Pforzheim or anywhere else. The single payment that exists is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and returned in full on top of your first completed 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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