Siegen is on the list because CGN is reachable and busy. 154 scheduled nonstop destinations and 34 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 1 hour 9 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Siegen has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Siegen
Time critical hand carry assignments from Siegen. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 1 hour 9 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at CGN.
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 inSiegen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Nearest gateCGN · Cologne
Drive to the aircraft93 km · 1 hour 9 minutes
Nonstop from CGN154 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 will usually know the day before, sometimes only in the morning. The desk sends the routing out of CGN, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 1 hour 9 minutes is timed backwards from the check in deadline rather than the departure. 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.
Getting to the aircraft from Siegen
Measured door to terminal, Siegen to CGN is 93 km and 1 hour 9 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Siegen for a departure this evening.
At 1 hour 9 minutes the desk will normally ask you to leave Siegen about three hours before departure, more if the routing needs a bag drop cut off. A backup gate changes what can be promised out of Siegen. From Siegen, Düsseldorf is 1 hour 34 minutes away and flies to 176 airports nonstop, so the desk has somewhere to move a consignment when the first flight goes.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGN | Cologne Bonn | 93 km | 1 hour 9 minutes | 154 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf | 146 km | 1 hour 34 minutes | 176 |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | 147 km | 1 hour 38 minutes | 274 |
| FMO | Münster Osnabrück | 179 km | 1 hour 56 minutes | 17 |
Siegen is a city of 107,000 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 CGN reaches without a change
The relevant question about CGN is not how big it is but what it flies. 154 nonstop destinations across 42 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AYT | Antalya | Antalya | about 16 departures a day | 5 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 13 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Ryanair |
| SAW | Istanbul | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Pegasus Airlines, AJet |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 6 departures a day | 4 operators: Eurowings, Lufthansa |
| BER | Berlin | Berlin Brandenburg | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings |
| IST | Istanbul | Istanbul | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Turkish Airlines |
| ADB | Izmir | Adnan Menderes | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| HER | Heraklion | Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings |
| STN | London | London Stansted | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Ryanair |
Counting every airport a courier in Siegen can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 337 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 industrial geography inside the CGN catchment explains the deadlines. These facilities are publicly documented and are listed here as context for the work near Siegen. None of them is described as a client of ours.
- 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 9 minutes from Siegen by road, and the sector is automotive.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and Wuppertal. Pharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. It sits on CGN, which is 1 hour 9 minutes from Siegen by road, and the sector is pharma.
Why a courier in Siegen is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of North Rhine-Westphalia is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to CGN. Siegen is near enough: 1 hour 9 minutes to CGN, on a board with 154 nonstop destinations.
There is no nonstop between CGN and the Emirates, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise. From Siegen the best single change is Istanbul (IST), and IST to DXB is flown by Emirates and flydubai, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 8h 21m gate to gate, so an assignment between Siegen 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 Siegen
Gummersbach36 km away, CGN in 46 minutesLüdenscheid47 km away, DUS in 1 hour 15 minutesWetzlar49 km away, FRA in 55 minutesMarburg an der Lahn53 km away, FRA in 1 hour 12 minutesGießen56 km away, FRA in 56 minutesArnsberg57 km away, FMO in 1 hour 21 minutesIserlohn60 km away, DUS in 1 hour 7 minutesBergisch Gladbach64 km away, CGN in 28 minutesKoblenz66 km away, FRA in 1 hour 17 minutesHagen66 km away, DUS in 1 hour 1 minutesBonn67 km away, CGN in 28 minutesWuppertal74 km away, DUS in 40 minutes
All 136 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 CGN 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 9 minutes drive to CGN. 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 CGN, 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 Siegen list
01How far is Siegen from CGN?
About 1 hour 9 minutes, 93 km by road. The desk has that number for every city on the list and uses it to decide who gets called for a departure out of CGN tonight.
02What can I reach from Siegen without a change of aircraft?
CGN serves 154 airports nonstop across 42 countries with 34 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Siegen can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 337 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Siegen to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Siegen the best single change is Istanbul (IST), and IST to DXB is flown by Emirates and flydubai, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 8h 21m gate to gate, so an assignment between Siegen 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 the company is Emirati, but the courier list is worldwide and Siegen is on it. Where you live changes which assignments you are shown, not whether you qualify.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. The Siegen list is free to join and free to stay on. The only money that moves from you to us is the AED 199 Academy, paid once, and it comes back on top of the fee for your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
One assignment out of CGN, one fee, agreed in advance. The 1 hour 9 minutes you spend driving there is part of what that figure is calculated on.
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If you can be at CGN within 1 hour 9 minutes and you have a passport with room in it, the rest is a conversation.
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