The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 1 hour 1 minutes from SAP. Everything else, the booking out of SAP, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
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On Board Courier, Puerto Cortez
Hand carry work from Puerto Cortez and the surrounding Cortés Department area. Departures run through La Mesa Ramón Villeda Morales, 69 km by road, on a list you join once and stay on.
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 inPuerto Cortez, Cortés Department
Nearest gateSAP · La Mesa
Drive to the aircraft69 km · 1 hour 1 minutes
Nonstop from SAP15 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
Some trips out of Puerto Cortez are same day returns and some put you in a hotel while a return consignment is prepared. The offer says which before you accept it. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of IAH, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive to SAP is 1 hour 1 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Puerto Cortez
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Puerto Cortez. The nearest usable gate is SAP at 1 hour 1 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
The 1 hour 1 minutes between Puerto Cortez and SAP is the ordinary shape of this work: long enough to plan, short enough to say yes to a flight tonight. Nothing else is close enough to Puerto Cortez to be useful, so SAP carries every assignment. Its 15 nonstop destinations are the ceiling, and the desk plans around that rather than pretending otherwise.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP | La Mesa Ramón Villeda Morales | 69 km | 1 hour 1 minutes | 15 |
Puerto Cortez is a city of 142,000 people in Cortés Department, and the clock there runs 10 hours behind the Emirates all year. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
What SAP reaches without a change
The only fact about SAP that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 15 airports, 8 countries, 13 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTB | Roatan Island | Roatan Island Juan Manuel Galvez | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators |
| SAL | Santa Clara | Santa Clara El Salvador | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Avianca |
| PTY | Tocumen | Tocumen | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Copa Airlines |
| TGU | Tegucigalpa | Tegucigalpa Toncontín | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator |
| IAH | Houston | Houston George Bush | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: United Airlines |
| GUA | Guatemala City | Guatemala City La Aurora | about one departure a day | 2 operators |
| ATL | Atlanta | Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Delta Air Lines |
| LCE | La Ceiba | La Ceiba Goloson | about one departure a day | 1 operator |
| MIA | Miami | Miami | about one departure a day | 1 operator: American Airlines |
| FLL | Fort Lauderdale | Fort Lauderdale Hollywood | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: JetBlue |
Counting every airport a courier in Puerto Cortez can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 15 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 Puerto Cortez
No industrial register exists here for Puerto Cortez and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 142,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Puerto Cortez is useful to the desk
Being close to SAP is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Puerto Cortez measures 1 hour 1 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Puerto Cortez the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Puerto Cortez the best single change is Houston (IAH), and IAH to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 20h 09m gate to gate, so an assignment between Puerto Cortez 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 Honduras list
Show the 6 closest, and how far each is from Puerto Cortez
All 7 Honduras cities are listed on the Honduras 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 SAP, between Honduras 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 1 minutes drive to SAP. 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 SAP, 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 Puerto Cortez list
01How far is Puerto Cortez from SAP?
By road it is 69 km and about 1 hour 1 minutes from the centre of Puerto Cortez to La Mesa Ramón Villeda Morales. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Puerto Cortez against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Puerto Cortez without a change of aircraft?
SAP serves 15 airports nonstop across 8 countries with 13 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Puerto Cortez can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 15 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Puerto Cortez to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Puerto Cortez the best single change is Houston (IAH), and IAH to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 20h 09m gate to gate, so an assignment between Puerto Cortez 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 Puerto Cortez separately. The desk needs people near SAP as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Puerto Cortez and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Puerto Cortez 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.
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