The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 2 hours 11 minutes from PBC. Everything else, the booking out of PBC, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
On Board Courier, Teziutlan
Hand carry work from Teziutlan and the surrounding Puebla area. Departures run through Puebla City Hermanos Serdán, 171 km by road, on a list you join once and stay on.
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
Some trips out of Teziutlan are same day returns and some put you in a hotel while a return consignment is prepared. The offer says which before you accept it. 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. The drive to PBC is 2 hours 11 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Teziutlan
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Teziutlan. The nearest usable gate is PBC at 2 hours 11 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
Two things follow from a 2 hours 11 minutes drive. The offers you see will carry more notice, and the desk will pay for a room near PBC rather than ask you to start before dawn. A second airport is within reach of Teziutlan: Mexico City Licenciado Benito Juarez at 3 hours 7 minutes, with 106 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBC | Puebla City Hermanos Serdán | 171 km | 2 hours 11 minutes | 15 |
| MEX | Mexico City Licenciado Benito Juarez | 248 km | 3 hours 7 minutes | 106 |
| NLU | Mexico City Felipe Ángeles | 268 km | 3 hours 21 minutes | 41 |
Teziutlan is a city of 104,000 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 Teziutlan may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What PBC reaches without a change
The only fact about PBC that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 15 airports, 2 countries, 3 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| 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 Teziutlan 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
What is made near PBC shapes what moves out of it in a hurry. The sites below are a matter of public record. Listing one is an explanation of why Teziutlan generates urgent work, not a statement that the company works with us.
- 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 11 minutes from Teziutlan by road, and the sector is automotive.
Why a courier in Teziutlan is useful to the desk
Being close to PBC is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Teziutlan measures 2 hours 11 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Teziutlan the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Teziutlan 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 Teziutlan 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 Teziutlan
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 11 minutes 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 Teziutlan list
01How far is Teziutlan from PBC?
By road it is 171 km and about 2 hours 11 minutes from the centre of Teziutlan to Puebla City Hermanos Serdán. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Teziutlan against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Teziutlan without a change of aircraft?
PBC serves 15 airports nonstop across 2 countries with 3 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Teziutlan 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 Teziutlan to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Teziutlan 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 Teziutlan 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, and that is the point of posting Teziutlan separately. The desk needs people near PBC as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Teziutlan and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Teziutlan list and no deposit of any kind. The Academy is AED 199 once, and that AED 199 is added back on top of what you are paid 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.
Apply to fly out of PBC
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