Kavala is on the list because SKG is reachable and busy. 101 scheduled nonstop destinations and 37 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 2 hours 7 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Kavala has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Kavala
Time critical hand carry assignments from Kavala. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 2 hours 7 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at SKG.
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 inKavala, East Macedonia and Thrace
Nearest gateSKG · Thessaloniki
Drive to the aircraft172 km · 2 hours 7 minutes
Nonstop from SKG101 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 SKG, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 2 hours 7 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 TLV, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real.
Getting to the aircraft from Kavala
Measured door to terminal, Kavala to SKG is 172 km and 2 hours 7 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Kavala for a departure this evening.
At 2 hours 7 minutes the drive from Kavala is the risky half of the trip, so it is planned rather than assumed: an earlier departure from home, and where the flight is early, a room near SKG paid by the desk. One gate, 2 hours 7 minutes away, and no second option. That is worth knowing before you join the Kavala list, and it is why the SKG board matters so much on this page.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKG | Thessaloniki Macedonia | 172 km | 2 hours 7 minutes | 101 |
Kavala is a city of 54,000 people in East Macedonia and Thrace, and the clock there runs 1 hour behind the Emirates in summer and 2 in winter. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Kavala may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What SKG reaches without a change
The relevant question about SKG is not how big it is but what it flies. 101 nonstop destinations across 33 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATH | Athens | Athens Eleftherios Venizelos | about 17 departures a day | 2 operators: Aegean Airlines |
| TLV | Tel Aviv Yafo | Tel Aviv Yafo Ben Gurion | about 4 departures a day | 5 operators: Aegean Airlines, Arkia, EL AL |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Aegean Airlines, Lufthansa |
| STR | Stuttgart | Stuttgart | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Aegean Airlines, Eurowings |
| DUS | Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Aegean Airlines, Eurowings |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Aegean Airlines, Lufthansa |
| HER | Heraklion | Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Aegean Airlines, Ryanair |
| VIE | Vienna | Vienna Schwechat | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Austrian Airlines |
| LGW | London | London Gatwick | about 3 departures a day | 4 operators: easyJet |
| LCA | Larnarca | Larnarca Larnaca | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Aegean Airlines, Wizz Air |
Counting every airport a courier in Kavala can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 101 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
What moves out of Kavala
This site publishes an industrial register for some airports and not for SKG. Rather than invent one, the honest statement is that Kavala produces the traffic every working city produces: signed originals, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Kavala is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of East Macedonia and Thrace is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to SKG. Kavala is near enough: 2 hours 7 minutes to SKG, on a board with 101 nonstop destinations.
There is no nonstop between SKG and the Emirates, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise. From Kavalthe best single change is Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), and TLV to DXB is flown by flydubai and Emirates, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 6h 38m gate to gate, so an assignment between Kavala 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 Greece list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Kavala
Drama32 km away, SKG in 2 hours 16 minutesSerres74 km away, SKG in 1 hour 24 minutesLagkadas115 km away, SKG in 42 minutesThessaloniki128 km away, SKG in 23 minutesKaterini177 km away, SKG in 1 hour 12 minutesVeria191 km away, SKG in 1 hour 13 minutesLárisa223 km away, SKG in 2 hours 13 minutesKozani232 km away, SKG in 1 hour 52 minutesChalkída284 km away, ATH in 1 hour 12 minutesThebes305 km away, ATH in 1 hour 21 minutesAthens334 km away, ATH in 33 minutesCorinth356 km away, ATH in 1 hour 21 minutes
All 17 Greece cities are listed on the Greece 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 SKG, between Greece 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 2 hours 7 minutes drive to SKG. 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 SKG, 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 Kavala list
01How far is Kavala from SKG?
About 2 hours 7 minutes, 172 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 SKG tonight.
02What can I reach from Kavala without a change of aircraft?
SKG serves 101 airports nonstop across 33 countries with 37 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Kavala can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 101 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Kavala to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Kavalthe best single change is Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), and TLV to DXB is flown by flydubai and Emirates, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 6h 38m gate to gate, so an assignment between Kavala 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 Kavala is on it. Where you live changes which assignments you are shown, not whether you qualify.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. The Kavala 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 SKG, one fee, agreed in advance. The 2 hours 7 minutes you spend driving there is part of what that figure is calculated on.
Apply to fly out of SKG
If you can be at SKG within 2 hours 7 minutes and you have a passport with room in it, the rest is a conversation.
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