The work is one consignment, one cabin, one signature. You collect it in or near Latina, you keep it with you, you present the prepared paperwork at customs and you hand it over in person. What makes Latina useful is that Roma Ciampino-G. B. Pastine is only 55 km away, so the collection and the departure can happen in the same afternoon.
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On Board Courier, Latina
Carry sealed, urgent consignments out of Latina. CIA sits 55 km north west of the city and flies to 47 airports without a change of aircraft.
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 inLatina, Lazio
Nearest gateCIA · Roma
Drive to the aircraft55 km · 1 hour 4 minutes
Nonstop from CIA47 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
From the offer to the handover, a trip out of CIA tends to run under thirty hours. 1 hour 4 minutes to Roma Ciampino-G. B. Pastine, the sector itself, customs at the far end, and a signature. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of MAN, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. Everything outside the cabin, the transfers, the hotel where the routing needs one, is booked and paid by the desk.
Getting to the aircraft from Latina
A courier in Latina is only as fast as the road in front of them. Latina to CIA is 55 km, 1 hour 4 minutes, and the airports below are ordered by that drive rather than by size.
1 hour 4 minutes of road is the ordinary case on this list. It is short enough for a same day flight out of CIA and long enough that the desk builds slack into the timings. Two gates serve Latina in practice. FCO is 1 hour 31 minutes away with 232 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept it.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIA | Roma Ciampino-G. B. Pastine | 55 km | 1 hour 4 minutes | 47 |
| FCO | Rome Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino | 82 km | 1 hour 31 minutes | 232 |
| NAP | Nápoli Naples | 185 km | 2 hours 17 minutes | 135 |
Latina is a city of 76,000 people in Lazio, 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 CIA reaches without a change
CIA publishes 47 nonstop routes. For a courier in Latina that is the difference between waiting for tomorrow and boarding tonight, so the busiest of them are set out below with their operators.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STN | London | London Stansted | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| CAG | Cagliari | Cagliari Elmas | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| BUD | Budapest | Budapest Ferenc Liszt | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| MAN | Manchester | Manchester | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| PRG | Prague | Prague Ruzyně | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| OTP | Bucharest | Bucharest Henri Coandă | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| KRK | Kraków | Kraków John Paul II -Balice | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| TIA | Tirana | Tirana Mother Teresa | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| WMI | Warsaw | Warsaw Modlin | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| EDI | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
Counting every airport a courier in Latina can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 259 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 Latina
No public industrial file is held here for the CIA catchment. Urgent hand carry work around Latina is driven by deadlines rather than by any one plant: a filing that has to be witnessed, a component that stopped a line, a sample with a clock on it.
Why a courier in Latina is useful to the desk
There is a second reason Latina matters, and it is the return leg. A courier who lives here can take a consignment inbound to Lazio and be home the same evening, which is cheaper and faster than flying somebody out from the Gulf and back.
A change of aircraft stands between Latina and the Gulf, which changes the timings rather than the work. From Latinthe best single change is Manchester (MAN), and MAN to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 11h 09m gate to gate, so an assignment between Latina 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 Italy list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Latina
Aprilia25 km away, CIA in 38 minutesRome58 km away, CIA in 23 minutesAcilia-Castel Fusano-Ostia Antica58 km away, CIA in 28 minutesGuidonia Montecelio61 km away, CIA in 34 minutesPozzuoli121 km away, NAP in 27 minutesTerni124 km away, CIA in 1 hour 24 minutesCaserta127 km away, NAP in 28 minutesNaples133 km away, NAP in 9 minutesCastellammare di Stabia158 km away, NAP in 34 minutesSalerno181 km away, NAP in 54 minutesPerugia188 km away, FLR in 2 hours 4 minutesFoggia221 km away, BRI in 1 hour 27 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 CIA 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 1 hour 4 minutes drive to CIA. 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 CIA, 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 Latina list
01How far is Latina from CIA?
The route from Latina to CIA runs 55 km and takes about 1 hour 4 minutes with clear roads. Traffic between Latina and CIA is allowed for on top, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer either way.
02What can I reach from Latina without a change of aircraft?
CIA serves 47 airports nonstop across 19 countries with 4 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Latina can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 259 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Latina to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Latinthe best single change is Manchester (MAN), and MAN to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 11h 09m gate to gate, so an assignment between Latina 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 residence visa, no Emirates address and no relocation. A courier on this list lives in Latina and flies out of CIA, which is exactly what the desk needs.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
There is no application fee, no placement fee and no deposit, in Latina or anywhere else. The AED 199 Academy is the single payment, and it is returned in full with your first assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
It is written down before a courier in Latina commits to anything. The desk sends the fee for that specific trip out of CIA, you accept in writing, and it is paid by transfer after the consignee signs.
Apply to fly out of CIA
One application covers Latina and every other desk we run. Tell us where you are and how fast you can reach Roma Ciampino-G. B. Pastine.
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