Lucca is on the list because PSA is reachable and busy. 76 scheduled nonstop destinations and 19 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 47 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Lucca has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Lucca
Time critical hand carry assignments from Lucca. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 47 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at PSA.
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 inLucca, Tuscany
Nearest gatePSA · Pisa
Drive to the aircraft41 km · 47 minutes
Nonstop from PSA76 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 PSA, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 47 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 LGW, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real.
Getting to the aircraft from Lucca
Measured door to terminal, Lucca to PSA is 41 km and 47 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Lucca for a departure this evening.
At 47 minutes the desk will normally ask you to leave Lucca about three hours before departure, more if the routing needs a bag drop cut off. A backup gate changes what can be promised out of Lucca. From Lucca, Firenze Peretola is 55 minutes away and flies to 35 airports nonstop, so the desk has somewhere to move a consignment when the first flight goes.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | Pisa | 41 km | 47 minutes | 76 |
| FLR | Firenze Peretola | 73 km | 55 minutes | 35 |
| BLQ | Bologna Guglielmo Marconi | 156 km | 1 hour 44 minutes | 114 |
| GOA | Genova Genoa Cristoforo Colombo | 170 km | 2 hours 8 minutes | 30 |
Lucca is a city of 82,000 people in Tuscany, 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 PSA reaches without a change
The relevant question about PSA is not how big it is but what it flies. 76 nonstop destinations across 27 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TIA | Tirana | Tirana Mother Teresa | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| STN | London | London Stansted | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| PMO | Palermo | Palermo Falcone-Borsellino | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| CTA | Catania | Catania -Fontanarossa | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| LGW | London | London Gatwick | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: easyJet |
| CAG | Cagliari | Cagliari Elmas | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair |
| MAN | Manchester | Manchester | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, easyJet |
| LHR | London | London Heathrow | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: British Airways |
| CRL | Brussels | Brussels South Charleroi | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| CPH | Copenhagen | Copenhagen Kastrup | about 2 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, Norwegian, SAS |
Counting every airport a courier in Lucca can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 143 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
The industry inside this catchment
The industrial geography inside the PSA catchment explains the deadlines. These facilities are publicly documented and are listed here as context for the work near Lucca. None of them is described as a client of ours.
- Baker Hughes, Aberdeen and Florence. Oilfield equipment and turbomachinery. The North Sea runs on parts that arrive the same day. It sits on FLR, which is 55 minutes from Lucca by road, and the sector is energy.
Why a courier in Lucca is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of Tuscany is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to PSA. Lucca is near enough: 47 minutes to PSA, on a board with 76 nonstop destinations.
There is no nonstop between PSA and the Emirates, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise. From Luccthe best single change is London (LGW), and LGW to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 10h 15m gate to gate, so an assignment between Lucca 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 Lucca
Pisa17 km away, PSA in 15 minutesViareggio21 km away, PSA in 46 minutesPistoia35 km away, FLR in 31 minutesMassa36 km away, PSA in 55 minutesLivorno36 km away, PSA in 37 minutesPrato48 km away, FLR in 24 minutesFlorence60 km away, FLR in 13 minutesLa Spezia62 km away, PSA in 1 hour 14 minutesModena95 km away, BLQ in 42 minutesReggio nell'Emilia96 km away, BLQ in 53 minutesBologna98 km away, BLQ in 18 minutesParma107 km away, BLQ in 1 hour 8 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 PSA 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 47 minutes drive to PSA. 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 PSA, 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 Lucca list
01How far is Lucca from PSA?
About 47 minutes, 41 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 PSA tonight.
02What can I reach from Lucca without a change of aircraft?
PSA serves 76 airports nonstop across 27 countries with 19 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Lucca can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 143 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Lucca to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Luccthe best single change is London (LGW), and LGW to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 10h 15m gate to gate, so an assignment between Lucca 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 Lucca is on it. Where you live changes which assignments you are shown, not whether you qualify.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. The Lucca 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 PSA, one fee, agreed in advance. The 47 minutes you spend driving there is part of what that figure is calculated on.
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If you can be at PSA within 47 minutes and you have a passport with room in it, the rest is a conversation.
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