Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is KRK. 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. Katowice is 40 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 135 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Katowice
If you are in Katowice you are 40 minutes from Kraków John Paul II -Balice and 135 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 inKatowice, Silesia
Nearest gateKRK · Kraków
Drive to the aircraft65 km · 40 minutes
Nonstop from KRK135 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 Katowice list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 65 km to KRK, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of KRK is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Katowice
The ground leg from Katowice is 65 km to Kraków John Paul II -Balice, about 40 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Katowice it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
A drive of 40 minutes is comfortable for a same day departure as long as the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most do. Katowice has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. WRO at 2 hours 4 minutes adds 70 nonstop destinations to the 135 at KRK.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRK | Kraków John Paul II -Balice | 65 km | 40 minutes | 135 |
| WRO | Wrocław Copernicus | 200 km | 2 hours 4 minutes | 70 |
Katowice is a city of 287,000 people in Silesia, and the clock there runs 2 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 3 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 KRK reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Kraków John Paul II -Balice: 135 nonstop destinations, 39 countries, 34 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAW | Warsaw | Warsaw Chopin | about 7 departures a day | 1 operator: LOT Polish Airlines |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: KLM |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Lufthansa |
| CPH | Copenhagen | Copenhagen Kastrup | about 5 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, Norwegian, SAS |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: Ryanair, Wizz Air, LOT Polish Airlines |
| STN | London | London Stansted | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti |
| BGY | Bergamo | Bergamo Orio al Serio | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Ryanair |
| HEL | Helsinki | Helsinki Vantaa | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Finnair |
| LGW | London | London Gatwick | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Wizz Air, easyJet |
Counting every airport a courier in Katowice can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 150 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 Katowice
No public industrial file exists here for Katowice, so none is claimed. Urgent hand carry demand in a city this size comes from deadlines, not from a single plant: a court filing, a machine that stopped, a batch that has to be tested.
Why a courier in Katowice is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Katowice is inside one. Katowice sits inside the catchment of Kraków John Paul II -Balice, 65 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from KRK. From Katowice the Gulf is a single sector: KRK and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by flydubai. That is roughly 5h 20m in the air over 4,100 km, and it means a consignment can leave Katowice in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Poland list
Show the 11 closest, and how far each is from Katowice
Częstochowa60 km away, KRK in 1 hour 27 minutesKrakow69 km away, KRK in 42 minutesWrocław169 km away, WRO in 20 minutesŁódź171 km away, WAW in 1 hour 31 minutesRadom196 km away, WAW in 1 hour 21 minutesWarsaw259 km away, WAW in 25 minutesLublin273 km away, WAW in 2 hours 12 minutesPoznań279 km away, POZ in 42 minutesBydgoszcz326 km away, GDN in 1 hour 59 minutesGdańsk456 km away, GDN in 18 minutesSzczecin467 km away, BER in 2 hours 8 minutes
All 12 Poland cities are listed on the Poland 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 KRK and the other airports listed above, between Poland 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 40 minutes drive to KRK. 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 KRK, 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 Katowice list
01How far is Katowice from KRK?
40 minutes and 65 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Katowice rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Katowice without a change of aircraft?
KRK serves 135 airports nonstop across 39 countries with 34 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Katowice can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 150 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Katowice to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Katowice the Gulf is a single sector: KRK and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by flydubai. That is roughly 5h 20m in the air over 4,100 km, and it means a consignment can leave Katowice in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
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 Katowice. The Katowice list exists because somebody has to be near KRK when a consignment appears in Silesia.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Katowice 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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