Assignments are offered, never assigned. The desk sends the routing, the timings and the fee for one specific trip out of STR, and you accept it or you do not. Living 28 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, Reutlingen
Courier assignments for people based in Reutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg. The drive to STR is 28 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 inReutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg
Nearest gateSTR · Stuttgart
Drive to the aircraft26 km · 28 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
You travel light and you travel as yourself. Passport, phone, the consignment and whatever you need for one or two nights away from Reutlingen. 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. The drive from Reutlingen to STR is 28 minutes, and the desk builds the timings around it rather than around the timetable alone.
Getting to the aircraft from Reutlingen
The airports a courier in Reutlingen can actually use are listed below, nearest first by driving time. STR leads at 28 minutes and 26 km.
At 26 km this is a drive most people in Reutlingen do without thinking about it, which is exactly what makes the city usable at short notice. A second airport is within reach of Reutlingen: Friedrichshafen at 1 hour 57 minutes, with 16 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STR | Stuttgart | 26 km | 28 minutes | 127 |
| FDH | Friedrichshafen | 123 km | 1 hour 57 minutes | 16 |
| SXB | Strasbourg | 194 km | 2 hours 13 minutes | 33 |
Reutlingen is a city of 113,000 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
Nonstop reach decides how quickly a consignment leaves Reutlingen. STR serves 127 airports directly in 37 countries, and these are the routes with the most departures.
| 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 Reutlingen can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 146 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 STR 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 Reutlingen generates urgent work, not a statement that the company works with us.
- 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 28 minutes from Reutlingen 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 28 minutes from Reutlingen 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 28 minutes from Reutlingen 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 28 minutes from Reutlingen by road, and the sector is semiconductor.
Why a courier in Reutlingen is useful to the desk
The desk would rather use a courier who already lives in Reutlingen than fly one in. It costs less, it is faster, and it removes an entire positioning flight into STR from the timeline. That is the whole commercial case for keeping names in Reutlingen, 28 minutes from STR.
Honesty about the routing out of STR matters more than a good headline. From Reutlingen 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 Reutlingen 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 Reutlingen
Stuttgart32 km away, STR in 20 minutesPforzheim57 km away, STR in 38 minutesUlm59 km away, STR in 55 minutesHeilbronn72 km away, STR in 55 minutesKarlsruhe82 km away, STR in 58 minutesHeidelberg109 km away, FRA in 55 minutesFreiburg114 km away, BSL in 59 minutesMannheim123 km away, FRA in 54 minutesAugsburg126 km away, MUC in 57 minutesWürzburg155 km away, NUE in 1 hour 6 minutesDarmstadt159 km away, FRA in 25 minutesIngolstadt166 km away, MUC in 49 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 28 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 Reutlingen list
01How far is Reutlingen from STR?
By road it is 26 km and about 28 minutes from the centre of Reutlingen to Stuttgart. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Reutlingen against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Reutlingen without a change of aircraft?
STR serves 127 airports nonstop across 37 countries with 31 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Reutlingen can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 146 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Reutlingen to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Reutlingen 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 Reutlingen 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, and that is the point of posting Reutlingen separately. The desk needs people near STR as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Reutlingen and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Reutlingen 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 STR
Join the Reutlingen list and see the offers as they come. The desk works Baden-Wurttemberg through STR, and the fee is written down before you agree to anything.
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