Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is MUC. 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. Regensburg is 1 hour 8 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 221 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Regensburg
If you are in Regensburg you are 1 hour 8 minutes from Munich and 221 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 inRegensburg, Bavaria
Nearest gateMUC · Munich
Drive to the aircraft104 km · 1 hour 8 minutes
Nonstop from MUC221 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 Regensburg list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 104 km to MUC, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of MUC 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 Regensburg
The ground leg from Regensburg is 104 km to Munich, about 1 hour 8 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Regensburg it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
A drive of 1 hour 8 minutes is comfortable for a same day departure as long as the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most do. Regensburg has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. NUE at 1 hour 16 minutes adds 71 nonstop destinations to the 221 at MUC.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUC | Munich | 104 km | 1 hour 8 minutes | 221 |
| NUE | Nuremberg | 119 km | 1 hour 16 minutes | 71 |
Regensburg is a city of 151,000 people in Bavaria, 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 MUC reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Munich: 221 nonstop destinations, 69 countries, 84 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 17 departures a day | 5 operators: Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti, Condor |
| HAM | Hamburg | Hamburg | about 17 departures a day | 3 operators: Lufthansa, Eurowings |
| LHR | London | London Heathrow | about 14 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa, British Airways |
| DUS | Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf | about 14 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Eurowings |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: Lufthansa, KLM |
| CDG | Paris | Paris Charles de Gaulle | about 11 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, Air France |
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 11 departures a day | 5 operators: Lufthansa, Air Europa, Iberia |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 11 departures a day | 5 operators: Lufthansa, Condor, Eurowings |
| FCO | Rome | Rome Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino | about 10 departures a day | 4 operators: Lufthansa, easyJet, ITA Airways |
| BER | Berlin | Berlin Brandenburg | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa |
Counting every airport a courier in Regensburg can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 232 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 MUC explains where the urgent traffic comes from. These are matters of public record, listed here as the reason work arises near Regensburg, and naming a site is not a claim that the company is a customer of ours.
- Airbus Helicopters, Donauworth. Light helicopter assembly and dynamic components. Same urgency, different airport. It sits on MUC, which is 1 hour 8 minutes from Regensburg by road, and the sector is aerospace.
- BMW, Munich and Dingolfing. Assembly, engines and the electric drive train centre. The home plants and the airport are half an hour apart. It sits on MUC, which is 1 hour 8 minutes from Regensburg 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 MUC, which is 1 hour 8 minutes from Regensburg 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 MUC, which is 1 hour 8 minutes from Regensburg by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
Why a courier in Regensburg is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Regensburg is inside one. Regensburg sits inside the catchment of Munich, 104 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 MUC. From Regensburg the Gulf is a single sector: MUC and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 5h 52m in the air over 4,550 km, and it means a consignment can leave Regensburg 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 Regensburg
Ingolstadt57 km away, MUC in 49 minutesNuremberg89 km away, NUE in 12 minutesMunich105 km away, MUC in 34 minutesAugsburg114 km away, MUC in 57 minutesUlm169 km away, STR in 55 minutesWürzburg178 km away, NUE in 1 hour 6 minutesHeilbronn210 km away, STR in 55 minutesChemnitz211 km away, DRS in 1 hour 11 minutesStuttgart215 km away, STR in 20 minutesReutlingen220 km away, STR in 28 minutesErfurt231 km away, LEJ in 1 hour 40 minutesPforzheim249 km away, STR in 38 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 MUC 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 8 minutes drive to MUC. 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 MUC, 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 Regensburg list
01How far is Regensburg from MUC?
1 hour 8 minutes and 104 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Regensburg rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Regensburg without a change of aircraft?
MUC serves 221 airports nonstop across 69 countries with 84 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Regensburg can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 232 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Regensburg to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Regensburg the Gulf is a single sector: MUC and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 5h 52m in the air over 4,550 km, and it means a consignment can leave Regensburg 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 Regensburg. The Regensburg list exists because somebody has to be near MUC when a consignment appears in Bavaria.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Regensburg 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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