Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is SJD. 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. San José del Cabo is 13 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 38 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, San José del Cabo
If you are in San José del Cabo you are 13 minutes from San José del Cabo Los Cabos and 38 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 inSan José del Cabo, Baja California Sur
Nearest gateSJD · San José del Cabo
Drive to the aircraft14 km · 13 minutes
Nonstop from SJD38 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 San José del Cabo list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 14 km to SJD, board, land, clear, hand over. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of DFW, 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 San José del Cabo
The ground leg from San José del Cabo is 14 km to San José del Cabo Los Cabos, about 13 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of San José del Cabo it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
At 13 minutes this is one of the shorter drives on the whole courier list, which means the desk can call you late and still make a departure. Everything out of San José del Cabo runs through SJD, because nothing else is within a sensible drive. Its 38 nonstop destinations are the honest limit of what you can be offered here.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SJD | San José del Cabo Los Cabos | 14 km | 13 minutes | 38 |
San José del Cabo is a city of 136,000 people in Baja California Sur, and the clock there runs 11 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.
What SJD reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from San José del Cabo Los Cabos: 38 nonstop destinations, 4 countries, 12 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 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Aeromexico |
| TIJ | Tijuana | Tijuana General Abelardo L. Rodríguez | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| GDL | Guadalajara | Guadalajara Don Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| DFW | Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas-Fort Worth | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: American Airlines |
| LAX | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | about 3 departures a day | 4 operators: American Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| PHX | Phoenix | Phoenix Sky Harbor | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| CUL | Culiacán | Culiacán Bachigualato Federal | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| IAH | Houston | Houston George Bush | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: United Airlines |
| TLC | Toluca | Toluca Licenciado Adolfo Lopez Mateos | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| HOU | Houston | Houston William P Hobby | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in San José del Cabo can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 38 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 San José del Cabo
The site holds no public industrial map for SJD, so this section says less rather than guessing. Consignments out of San José del Cabo are typically documents, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in San José del Cabo is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and San José del Cabo is inside one. San José del Cabo sits inside the catchment of San José del Cabo Los Cabos, 14 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 San José del Cabo involves a change of aircraft. From San José del Cabo the best single change is Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), and DFW to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 19h 43m gate to gate, so an assignment between San José del Cabo 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 San José del Cabo
Cabo San Lucas28 km away, SJD in 38 minutesLa Paz136 km away, SJD in 2 hours 36 minutesTepic524 km away, PVR in 2 hours 6 minutesPuerto Vallarta535 km away, PVR in 15 minutesFresnillo699 km away, AGU in 2 hours 51 minutesZapopan701 km away, GDL in 37 minutesManzanillo708 km away, PVR in 3 hours 43 minutesGuadalupe737 km away, AGU in 1 hour 59 minutesCiudad Guzmán746 km away, GDL in 1 hour 46 minutesColima752 km away, GDL in 2 hours 32 minutesTepatitlán de Morelos758 km away, GDL in 1 hour 14 minutesTecomán760 km away, GDL in 3 hours 13 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 SJD, 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 13 minutes drive to SJD. 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 SJD, 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 San José del Cabo list
01How far is San José del Cabo from SJD?
13 minutes and 14 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave San José del Cabo rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from San José del Cabo without a change of aircraft?
SJD serves 38 airports nonstop across 4 countries with 12 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in San José del Cabo can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 38 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from San José del Cabo to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From San José del Cabo the best single change is Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), and DFW to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 19h 43m gate to gate, so an assignment between San José del Cabo 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 San José del Cabo. The San José del Cabo list exists because somebody has to be near SJD when a consignment appears in Baja California Sur.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from San José del Cabo 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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