One trip, one consignment, one handover. No round, no van, no warehouse. The consignment is sealed before you take it, it stays in the cabin from KRK onwards, and it is signed for by a named person at the far end. From Tarnów the trip begins with 1 hour 25 minutes of road to Kraków John Paul II -Balice.
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On Board Courier, Tarnów
Urgent consignments leave Tarnów the way passengers do: in the cabin, with a person. KRK is 1 hour 25 minutes from the city and the desk pays for the seat.
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 inTarnów, Lesser Poland
Nearest gateKRK · Kraków
Drive to the aircraft136 km · 1 hour 25 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
A trip out of Tarnów has four fixed points: the collection, the 1 hour 25 minutes drive to KRK, the sector itself and the signature at the far end. The Gulf sector out of KRK is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Everything between them is arranged by the desk and confirmed to you in writing.
Getting to the aircraft from Tarnów
The drive is the honest half of this work. Tarnów to Kraków John Paul II -Balice is 136 km and about 1 hour 25 minutes, and an assignment is planned backwards from the bag drop rather than from the departure.
1 hour 25 minutes behind the wheel is a real commitment. The notice a courier in Tarnów gets is longer as a result, and an overnight by KRK is a normal cost rather than an exception. The single gate rule applies in Tarnów: KRK or nothing. When the KRK board has no departure that fits, the consignment goes to a courier somewhere else.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRK | Kraków John Paul II -Balice | 136 km | 1 hour 25 minutes | 135 |
Tarnów is a city of 118,000 people in Lesser Poland, 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. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Tarnów may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What KRK reaches without a change
This is the departure board a courier in Tarnów works from: 135 nonstop destinations out of KRK, 34 operating carriers, and average daily frequencies taken from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
| 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 Tarnów can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 135 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 Tarnów
No industrial geography is claimed for KRK here, because none is published. Hand carry demand around Tarnów arises when a deadline is closer than the freight network can reach.
Why a courier in Tarnów is useful to the desk
A courier in Tarnów shortens the chain by one link. Without one, an urgent consignment out of Lesser Poland has to be trucked to a hub or flown out with somebody sent from elsewhere. With one, it is 1 hour 25 minutes of driving and a boarding pass.
Since the desk sits in Dubai, this is the sector that matters most out of Tarnów. From Tarnów 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 Tarnów in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Poland list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Tarnów
Nowy Sącz48 km away, KRK in 2 hours 2 minutesKrakow75 km away, KRK in 42 minutesKielce99 km away, KRK in 1 hour 55 minutesJaworzno124 km away, KRK in 30 minutesDąbrowa Górnicza132 km away, KRK in 42 minutesBielsko-Biala141 km away, KRK in 1 hour 12 minutesKatowice143 km away, KRK in 40 minutesRadom155 km away, WAW in 1 hour 21 minutesCzęstochowa158 km away, KRK in 1 hour 27 minutesGliwice168 km away, KRK in 56 minutesJastrzębie Zdrój173 km away, KRK in 1 hour 16 minutesRybnik175 km away, KRK in 1 hour 15 minutes
All 42 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, 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 1 hour 25 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 Tarnów list
01How far is Tarnów from KRK?
About 1 hour 25 minutes, over 136 km of measured driving route. Where an early departure makes that uncomfortable, the desk books a room near KRK the night before instead.
02What can I reach from Tarnów without a change of aircraft?
KRK serves 135 airports nonstop across 39 countries with 34 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Tarnów can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 135 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Tarnów to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Tarnów 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 Tarnów 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. If the desk only wanted people in Dubai it would not keep a Tarnów list at all, and this page would not exist.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no application fee and no placement fee for the Tarnów list. The Academy costs AED 199 once and is returned with the fee for your first completed assignment out of KRK.
06How is my fee agreed?
A courier in Tarnów sees the number first. The routing out of KRK, the timings and the fee come in one written offer, and accepting it is a decision you make in Tarnów.
Apply to fly out of KRK
Add your name to the Tarnów list. A form, a screening call, and the desk knows who to ring when something has to leave Lesser Poland tonight.
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