Serang is on the list because CGK is reachable and busy. 89 scheduled nonstop destinations and 53 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 1 hour 4 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Serang has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Serang
Time critical hand carry assignments from Serang. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 1 hour 4 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at CGK.
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 inSerang, Banten
Nearest gateCGK · Jakarta
Drive to the aircraft84 km · 1 hour 4 minutes
Nonstop from CGK89 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 CGK, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 1 hour 4 minutes is timed backwards from the check in deadline rather than the departure. The Gulf sector out of CGK is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss.
Getting to the aircraft from Serang
Measured door to terminal, Serang to CGK is 84 km and 1 hour 4 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Serang for a departure this evening.
At 1 hour 4 minutes the desk will normally ask you to leave Serang about three hours before departure, more if the routing needs a bag drop cut off. There is no second gate within reach of Serang. Everything runs through CGK, and its 89 nonstop destinations are what the desk has to work with.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGK | Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta | 84 km | 1 hour 4 minutes | 89 |
Serang is a city of 736,000 people in Banten, and the clock there runs 3 hours ahead of 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 CGK reaches without a change
The relevant question about CGK is not how big it is but what it flies. 89 nonstop destinations across 24 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPS | Denpasar-Bali Island | Denpasar-Bali Island Ngurah Rai (Bali) | about 37 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| SIN | Singapore | Singapore Changi | about 33 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| SUB | Surabaya | Surabaya Juanda | about 28 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| KUL | Kuala Lumpur | Kuala Lumpur | about 26 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| UPG | Ujung Pandang-Celebes Island | Ujung Pandang-Celebes Island Hasanuddin | about 26 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| PLM | Palembang-Sumatra Island | Palembang-Sumatra Island Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin Ii | about 16 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| PKU | Pekanbaru-Sumatra Island | Pekanbaru-Sumatra Island Sultan Syarif Kasim Ii (Simpang Tiga) | about 15 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| BTH | Batam Island | Batam Island Hang Nadim | about 14 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| BPN | Kotamadya Balikpapan | Kotamadya Balikpapan Sultan Aji Muhamad Sulaiman | about 14 departures a day | 5 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
| TKG | Bandar Lampung-Sumatra Island | Bandar Lampung-Sumatra Island Radin Inten II (Branti) | about 14 departures a day | 6 operators: Garuda Indonesia, Batik Air, Citilink |
Counting every airport a courier in Serang can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 89 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 Serang
The site does not hold a public industrial file for the CGK catchment, so this page will not invent one. What it can say honestly is that Serang generates the ordinary urgent traffic every working city generates: signed originals, spare parts, samples and small high value items that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Serang is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of Banten is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to CGK. Serang is near enough: 1 hour 4 minutes to CGK, on a board with 89 nonstop destinations.
A consignment moving between Serang and the Gulf has a straightforward path. From Serang the Gulf is a single sector: CGK and DXB are joined nonstop, about 3 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 8h 15m in the air over 6,550 km, and it means a consignment can leave Serang in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Indonesia list
Show the 8 closest, and how far each is from Serang
Jakarta77 km away, CGK in 28 minutesBogor88 km away, CGK in 1 hour 3 minutesBandung184 km away, CGK in 2 hours 15 minutesSemarang481 km away, YIA in 2 hours 7 minutesSurabaya739 km away, SUB in 21 minutesMalang744 km away, SUB in 1 hour 6 minutesSitubondo885 km away, SUB in 2 hours 27 minutesMakassar1473 km away, UPG in 18 minutes
All 9 Indonesia cities are listed on the Indonesia 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 CGK, between Indonesia 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 4 minutes drive to CGK. 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 CGK, 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 Serang list
01How far is Serang from CGK?
About 1 hour 4 minutes, 84 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 CGK tonight.
02What can I reach from Serang without a change of aircraft?
CGK serves 89 airports nonstop across 24 countries with 53 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Serang can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 89 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Serang to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Serang the Gulf is a single sector: CGK and DXB are joined nonstop, about 3 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 8h 15m in the air over 6,550 km, and it means a consignment can leave Serang 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. Most assignments touch the Emirates because the desk is there, but couriers on this list live in Serang and fly from CGK. Being in Serang changes which offers you see, not whether you can be on the list.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. Applying is free, screening is free, and being on the Serang list is free. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and it comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier in Serang ever makes to us.
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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If you can be at CGK within 1 hour 4 minutes and you have a passport with room in it, the rest is a conversation.
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