One trip, one consignment, one handover. No round, no van, no warehouse. The consignment is sealed before you take it, it stays in the cabin from BLQ onwards, and it is signed for by a named person at the far end. From Imolthe trip begins with 39 minutes of road to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi.
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On Board Courier, Imola
Urgent consignments leave Imolthe way passengers do: in the cabin, with a person. BLQ is 39 minutes from the city and the desk pays for the seat.
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 inImola, Emilia-Romagna
Nearest gateBLQ · Bologna
Drive to the aircraft47 km · 39 minutes
Nonstop from BLQ114 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
A trip out of Imola has four fixed points: the collection, the 39 minutes drive to BLQ, the sector itself and the signature at the far end. The Gulf sector out of BLQ is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Everything between them is arranged by the desk and confirmed to you in writing.
Getting to the aircraft from Imola
The drive is the honest half of this work. Imola to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi is 47 km and about 39 minutes, and an assignment is planned backwards from the bag drop rather than from the departure.
39 minutes of driving is comfortable for a same day flight provided the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most calls do. A cancellation at BLQ is not the end of an assignment from Imola, because FLR is 1 hour 43 minutes out with 35 nonstop destinations of its own.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ | Bologna Guglielmo Marconi | 47 km | 39 minutes | 114 |
| FLR | Firenze Peretola | 142 km | 1 hour 43 minutes | 35 |
| VCE | Venice Marco Polo | 194 km | 2 hours 9 minutes | 114 |
Imola is a city of 70,000 people in Emilia-Romagna, 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 BLQ reaches without a change
This is the departure board a courier in Imola works from: 114 nonstop destinations out of BLQ, 47 operating carriers, and average daily frequencies taken from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDG | Paris | Paris Charles de Gaulle | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: Air France |
| PMO | Palermo | Palermo Falcone-Borsellino | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| CTA | Catania | Catania -Fontanarossa | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 5 departures a day | 2 operators: Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Air Dolomiti |
| TIA | Tirana | Tirana Mother Teresa | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: KLM |
| CAG | Cagliari | Cagliari Elmas | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair |
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, Iberia, Air Europa |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Vueling |
Counting every airport a courier in Imola can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 160 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 Imola
No industrial geography is claimed for BLQ here, because none is published. Hand carry demand around Imola arises when a deadline is closer than the freight network can reach.
Why a courier in Imola is useful to the desk
A courier in Imola shortens the chain by one link. Without one, an urgent consignment out of Emilia-Romagna has to be trucked to a hub or flown out with somebody sent from elsewhere. With one, it is 39 minutes of driving and a boarding pass.
Since the desk sits in Dubai, this is the sector that matters most out of Imola. From Imolthe Gulf is a single sector: BLQ and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 5h 48m in the air over 4,500 km, and it means a consignment can leave Imola in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Italy list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Imola
Forlì30 km away, BLQ in 59 minutesBologna33 km away, BLQ in 18 minutesRavenna39 km away, BLQ in 1 hour 3 minutesCesena49 km away, BLQ in 1 hour 9 minutesFerrara54 km away, BLQ in 42 minutesModena70 km away, BLQ in 42 minutesPrato72 km away, FLR in 24 minutesFlorence74 km away, FLR in 13 minutesRimini76 km away, BLQ in 1 hour 24 minutesPistoia79 km away, FLR in 31 minutesCarpi81 km away, BLQ in 47 minutesReggio nell'Emilia94 km away, BLQ in 53 minutes
All 76 Italy cities are listed on the Italy 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 BLQ and the other airports listed above, between Italy 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 39 minutes drive to BLQ. 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 BLQ, 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 Imola list
01How far is Imola from BLQ?
About 39 minutes, over 47 km of measured driving route. Where an early departure makes that uncomfortable, the desk books a room near BLQ the night before instead.
02What can I reach from Imola without a change of aircraft?
BLQ serves 114 airports nonstop across 36 countries with 47 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Imola can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 160 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Imola to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Imolthe Gulf is a single sector: BLQ and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 5h 48m in the air over 4,500 km, and it means a consignment can leave Imola 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. If the desk only wanted people in Dubai it would not keep a Imola list at all, and this page would not exist.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no application fee and no placement fee for the Imola list. The Academy costs AED 199 once and is returned with the fee for your first completed assignment out of BLQ.
06How is my fee agreed?
A courier in Imola sees the number first. The routing out of BLQ, the timings and the fee come in one written offer, and accepting it is a decision you make in Imola.
Apply to fly out of BLQ
Add your name to the Imola list. A form, a screening call, and the desk knows who to ring when something has to leave Emilia-Romagna tonight.
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