Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is AGU. The desk holds a consignment that is late, valuable or perishable, finds the first departure that fits, and then looks for a courier who can be at the counter in time. Fresnillo is 2 hours 51 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 11 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Fresnillo
If you are in Fresnillo you are 2 hours 51 minutes from Aguascalientes International and 11 scheduled nonstop destinations. That is the whole starting qualification. Freelance, per assignment, ticket paid.
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 inFresnillo, Zacatecas
Nearest gateAGU · Aguascalientes
Drive to the aircraft202 km · 2 hours 51 minutes
Nonstop from AGU11 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
There is no roster and no shift on the Fresnillo list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 202 km to AGU, board, land, clear, hand over. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of IAH, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Fresnillo
The ground leg from Fresnillo is 202 km to Aguascalientes International, about 2 hours 51 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Fresnillo it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
202 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 2 hours 51 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by AGU the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Fresnillo has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. SLP at 3 hours 52 minutes adds 11 nonstop destinations to the 11 at AGU.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGU | Aguascalientes International | 202 km | 2 hours 51 minutes | 11 |
| SLP | San Luis Potosí Ponciano Arriaga | 255 km | 3 hours 52 minutes | 11 |
Fresnillo is a city of 143,000 people in Zacatecas, and the clock there runs 10 hours behind 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. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Fresnillo may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What AGU reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Aguascalientes International: 11 nonstop destinations, 2 countries, 5 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEX | Mexico City | Mexico City Licenciado Benito Juarez | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Aeromexico |
| IAH | Houston | Houston George Bush | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: United Airlines |
| MTY | Monterrey | Monterrey General Mariano Escobedo | about 2 departures a day | 0 operators |
| TIJ | Tijuana | Tijuana General Abelardo L. Rodríguez | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Volaris |
| NLU | Mexico City | Mexico City Felipe Ángeles | about one departure a day | 1 operator: Viva |
| DFW | Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas-Fort Worth | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: American Airlines |
| LAX | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| CUN | Cancún | Cancún | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| MDW | Chicago | Chicago Midway | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| PBC | Puebla City | Puebla City Hermanos Serdán | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
Counting every airport a courier in Fresnillo can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 13 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 Fresnillo
The site holds no public industrial map for AGU, so this section says less rather than guessing. Consignments out of Fresnillo are typically documents, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Fresnillo is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Fresnillo is inside one. Fresnillo sits inside the catchment of Aguascalientes International, 202 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The connection to Dubai from Fresnillo involves a change of aircraft. From Fresnillo the best single change is Houston (IAH), and IAH to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 19h 22m gate to gate, so an assignment between Fresnillo 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 Mexico list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Fresnillo
Guadalupe60 km away, AGU in 1 hour 59 minutesAguascalientes156 km away, AGU in 32 minutesLagos de Moreno224 km away, BJX in 1 hour 3 minutesSan Luis Potosí225 km away, SLP in 24 minutesLeón de los Aldama259 km away, BJX in 28 minutesTepatitlán de Morelos262 km away, GDL in 1 hour 14 minutesZapopan278 km away, GDL in 37 minutesTepic279 km away, PVR in 2 hours 6 minutesSaltillo315 km away, MTY in 1 hour 24 minutesIrapuato319 km away, BJX in 42 minutesSan Miguel de Allende333 km away, QRO in 1 hour 25 minutesSalamanca337 km away, BJX in 57 minutes
All 75 Mexico cities are listed on the Mexico 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 AGU and the other airports listed above, between Mexico 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 2 hours 51 minutes drive to AGU. 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 AGU, 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 Fresnillo list
01How far is Fresnillo from AGU?
2 hours 51 minutes and 202 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Fresnillo rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Fresnillo without a change of aircraft?
AGU serves 11 airports nonstop across 2 countries with 5 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Fresnillo can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 13 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Fresnillo to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Fresnillo the best single change is Houston (IAH), and IAH to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 19h 22m gate to gate, so an assignment between Fresnillo 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 company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Fresnillo. The Fresnillo list exists because somebody has to be near AGU when a consignment appears in Zacatecas.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Fresnillo and free to be screened. The one charge anywhere in the process is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and refunded on top of your first assignment fee.
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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