Tehuacán is on the list because PBC is reachable and busy. 15 scheduled nonstop destinations and 3 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 2 hours of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Tehuacán has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Tehuacán
Time critical hand carry assignments from Tehuacán. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 2 hours between your front door and the check in desk at PBC.
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 inTehuacán, Puebla
Nearest gatePBC · Puebla City
Drive to the aircraft157 km · 2 hours
Nonstop from PBC15 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 PBC, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 2 hours is timed backwards from the check in deadline rather than the departure. 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.
Getting to the aircraft from Tehuacán
Measured door to terminal, Tehuacán to PBC is 157 km and 2 hours. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Tehuacán for a departure this evening.
At 2 hours the drive from Tehuacán is the risky half of the trip, so it is planned rather than assumed: an earlier departure from home, and where the flight is early, a room near PBC paid by the desk. A backup gate changes what can be promised out of Tehuacán. From Tehuacán, Mexico City Licenciado Benito Juarez is 3 hours 8 minutes away and flies to 106 airports nonstop, so the desk has somewhere to move a consignment when the first flight goes.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBC | Puebla City Hermanos Serdán | 157 km | 2 hours | 15 |
| MEX | Mexico City Licenciado Benito Juarez | 250 km | 3 hours 8 minutes | 106 |
| NLU | Mexico City Felipe Ángeles | 284 km | 3 hours 35 minutes | 41 |
Tehuacán is a city of 249,000 people in Puebla, 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 Tehuacán may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What PBC reaches without a change
The relevant question about PBC is not how big it is but what it flies. 15 nonstop destinations across 2 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUN | Cancún | Cancún | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| GDL | Guadalajara | Guadalajara Don Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| TIJ | Tijuana | Tijuana General Abelardo L. Rodríguez | about 2 departures a day | 2 operators: Volaris, Viva |
| MTY | Monterrey | Monterrey General Mariano Escobedo | about 2 departures a day | 1 operator: Viva |
| IAH | Houston | Houston George Bush | about one departure a day | 2 operators: Volaris, United Airlines |
| LAX | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| EWR | Newark | Newark Liberty | about 5 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| AGU | Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes International | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| PVR | Puerto Vallarta | Puerto Vallarta Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
| SJD | San José del Cabo | San José del Cabo Los Cabos | about 4 departures a week | 1 operator: Volaris |
Counting every airport a courier in Tehuacán can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 106 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 PBC catchment explains the deadlines. These facilities are publicly documented and are listed here as context for the work near Tehuacán. None of them is described as a client of ours.
- Volkswagen, Puebla. Assembly for the North American market. German tooling, Mexican line, and an ocean in between. It sits on PBC, which is 2 hours from Tehuacán by road, and the sector is automotive.
Why a courier in Tehuacán is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of Puebla is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to PBC. Tehuacán is near enough: 2 hours to PBC, on a board with 15 nonstop destinations.
There is no nonstop between PBC and the Emirates, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise. From Tehuacán 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 29m gate to gate, so an assignment between Tehuacán 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 Tehuacán
Orizaba53 km away, PBC in 2 hours 14 minutesCórdoba68 km away, PBC in 2 hours 31 minutesPuebla107 km away, PBC in 27 minutesAtlixco120 km away, PBC in 44 minutesXalapa de Enríquez129 km away, PBC in 2 hours 33 minutesTlaxcala130 km away, PBC in 35 minutesSan Martin Texmelucan143 km away, PBC in 19 minutesTeziutlan151 km away, PBC in 2 hours 11 minutesVeracruz154 km away, PBC in 3 hours 44 minutesCuautla169 km away, PBC in 1 hour 32 minutesValle de Chalco186 km away, MEX in 33 minutesTexcoco de Mora195 km away, MEX in 24 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 PBC 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 drive to PBC. 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 PBC, 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 Tehuacán list
01How far is Tehuacán from PBC?
About 2 hours, 157 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 PBC tonight.
02What can I reach from Tehuacán without a change of aircraft?
PBC serves 15 airports nonstop across 2 countries with 3 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Tehuacán can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 106 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Tehuacán to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Tehuacán 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 29m gate to gate, so an assignment between Tehuacán 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 Tehuacán is on it. Where you live changes which assignments you are shown, not whether you qualify.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. The Tehuacán 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?
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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