A courier in Kaunas is called because of the road, not the postcode. Vilnius is 101 km away and reaches 57 airports nonstop, so a consignment that has to leave Kaunas today has a real chance of leaving today. The desk works the list by drive time, and yours is 1 hour 14 minutes.
On Board Courier, Kaunas
A courier list for Kaunas and the Kaunas area. Your departure gate is VNO, 101 km by road, and every ticket on it is bought by the desk rather than by you.
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.
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.
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.
How to start, in four steps
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
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
The shape of a trip out of Kaunas is short and defined. Collection, 1 hour 14 minutes on the road, check in at Vilnius, and a seat you did not pay for. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of FRA, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. You do not open the consignment, you do not check it into the hold, and you do not leave it anywhere.
Getting to the aircraft from Kaunas
1 hour 14 minutes is the drive from Kaunas to VNO, 101 km by road. It is the single most useful fact on this page, because it decides which departures from VNO you can realistically be offered.
A drive in this band, 1 hour 14 minutes from Kaunas, is why the offer arrives with a departure time from your door and not only from the gate. Only VNO is within reach of Kaunas at 1 hour 14 minutes, so the 57 destinations it serves nonstop are what you can be offered. There is no second airport within reach of Kaunas to fall back on.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VNO | Vilnius | 101 km | 1 hour 14 minutes | 57 |
Kaunas is a city of 289,000 people in Kaunas, and the clock there runs 1 hour behind the Emirates in summer and 2 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 VNO reaches without a change
From VNO a consignment can be in 57 other airports without touching a second aircraft. 30 countries are covered, and the heaviest routes are these.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAW | Warsaw | Warsaw Chopin | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: LOT Polish Airlines |
| HEL | Helsinki | Helsinki Vantaa | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Finnair |
| RIX | Riga | Riga | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: airBaltic |
| CPH | Copenhagen | Copenhagen Kastrup | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: SAS |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Lufthansa |
| OSL | Oslo | Oslo Gardermoen | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: Ryanair, Norwegian |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: airBaltic |
| ARN | Stockholm | Stockholm -Arlanda | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: SAS, Norwegian |
| TLL | Tallinn | Tallinn Lennart Meri | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: airBaltic, Wizz Air |
| TLV | Tel Aviv Yafo | Tel Aviv Yafo Ben Gurion | about 2 departures a day | 3 operators: Wizz Air, Arkia, Israir |
Counting every airport a courier in Kaunas can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 57 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 Kaunas
This site keeps a public register of industrial sites for some airports, and VNO is not one of them. Rather than guess, the honest statement is that assignments from Kaunas are driven by deadlines rather than by any one factory: contracts, components, samples and valuables.
Why a courier in Kaunas is useful to the desk
The value of a Kaunas address is timing. When a consignment has to leave Kaunas today, the desk needs a name that is 1 hour 14 minutes from a working gate, not a name in the nearest capital who is four hours away in traffic.
VNO does not fly to the Emirates directly. From Kaunas the best single change is Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), and FRA to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 9h 39m gate to gate, so an assignment between Kaunas 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 Lithuania list
Show the 1 closest, and how far each is from Kaunas
All 2 Lithuania cities are listed on the Lithuania 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 VNO, between Lithuania 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 14 minutes drive to VNO. 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 VNO, 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 Kaunas list
01How far is Kaunas from VNO?
It is 101 km of driving from Kaunas, roughly 1 hour 14 minutes. Parking or the transfer is paid by the desk, and if the timings are tight the desk pays for a room near VNO the night before instead of hoping.
02What can I reach from Kaunas without a change of aircraft?
VNO serves 57 airports nonstop across 30 countries with 18 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Kaunas can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 57 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Kaunas to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Kaunas the best single change is Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), and FRA to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 9h 39m gate to gate, so an assignment between Kaunas 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?
You do not. A residence visa is not asked for and not needed to be on the Kaunas list. What is asked for is a passport, the right to enter the country on the routing, and the ability to reach VNO.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Applying costs nothing and always will. A courier on the Kaunas list makes exactly one payment to us, the AED 199 Academy, and gets it back in full with the fee for the first assignment they complete.
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.
Apply to fly out of VNO
The application takes about five minutes and asks what the desk actually needs to know: your passports, your visas, and how quickly you can be at VNO.
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