A courier in Rabigh is called because of the road, not the postcode. Jeddah King Abdulaziz is 147 km away and reaches 150 airports nonstop, so a consignment that has to leave Mecca Region today has a real chance of leaving today. The desk works the list by drive time, and yours is 1 hour 56 minutes.
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On Board Courier, Rabigh
A courier list for Rabigh and the Mecca Region area. Your departure gate is JED, 147 km by road, and every ticket on it is bought by the desk rather than by you.
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 inRabigh, Mecca Region
Nearest gateJED · Jeddah
Drive to the aircraft147 km · 1 hour 56 minutes
Nonstop from JED150 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 1,200 to 2,000
Apply for this position
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 1,200 to 2,000A 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
The shape of a trip out of Rabigh is short and defined. Collection, 1 hour 56 minutes on the road, check in at Jeddah King Abdulaziz, and a seat you did not pay for. The Gulf sector out of JED is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. You do not open the consignment, you do not check it into the hold, and you do not leave it anywhere.
Getting to the aircraft from Rabigh
1 hour 56 minutes is the drive from Rabigh to JED, 147 km by road. It is the single most useful fact on this page, because it decides which departures from JED you can realistically be offered.
At 147 km the drive is the part most likely to go wrong, so the desk over allows for it: an earlier start from Rabigh, or a hotel by JED the night before, paid by us. The desk will send you to YNB when the routing is better from there. It is 2 hours 23 minutes from Rabigh and carries 5 nonstop destinations, and the offer always names the airport before you accept.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JED | Jeddah King Abdulaziz | 147 km | 1 hour 56 minutes | 150 |
| YNB | Yanbu Airport | 198 km | 2 hours 23 minutes | 5 |
Rabigh is a city of 73,000 people in Mecca Region, and the clock there runs 1 hour 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 Rabigh may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What JED reaches without a change
From JED a consignment can be in 150 other airports without touching a second aircraft. 55 countries are covered, and the heaviest routes are these.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUH | Riyadh | Riyadh King Khaled | about 76 departures a day | 4 operators: Saudia, flynas, flyadeal |
| CAI | Cairo | Cairo | about 49 departures a day | 6 operators: flynas, flyadeal, EgyptAir |
| DMM | Ad Dammam | Ad Dammam King Fahd | about 24 departures a day | 3 operators: Saudia, flynas, flyadeal |
| DXB | Dubai | Dubai | about 16 departures a day | 3 operators: Saudia, Emirates, flydubai |
| AHB | Abha | Abha Regional | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: Saudia, flynas, flyadeal |
| KHI | Karachi | Karachi Jinnah | about 9 departures a day | 6 operators: Saudia, flynas, flyadeal |
| IST | Istanbul | Istanbul | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: Saudia, flyadeal, Turkish Airlines |
| AMM | Amman | Amman Queen Alia | about 9 departures a day | 4 operators: Saudia, flynas, Royal Jordanian |
| ISB | Islamabad | Islamabad | about 8 departures a day | 4 operators: Saudia, Pakistan International Airlines, Airblue |
| BOM | Mumbai | Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji | about 8 departures a day | 4 operators: Saudia, IndiGo, Akasa Air |
Counting every airport a courier in Rabigh can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 151 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 Rabigh
No industrial register exists here for Rabigh and none is going to be improvised. Hand carry demand in a city of 73,000 people is the ordinary kind, driven by a clock rather than by any single factory.
Why a courier in Rabigh is useful to the desk
The value of a Rabigh address is timing. When a consignment has to leave Mecca Region today, the desk needs a name that is 1 hour 56 minutes from a working gate, not a name in the nearest capital who is four hours away in traffic.
What ties Rabigh to a Dubai desk is the timetable. From Rabigh the Gulf is a single sector: JED and DXB are joined nonstop, about 16 departures a day, flown by Emirates, flydubai and Saudia. That is roughly 2h 28m in the air over 1,700 km, and it means a consignment can leave Rabigh in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Saudi Arabia list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Rabigh
Jeddah146 km away, JED in 39 minutesMecca173 km away, TIF in 1 hour 18 minutesYanbu175 km away, YNB in 16 minutesMadinah195 km away, MED in 27 minutesTa’if222 km away, TIF in 24 minutesAl Lith321 km away, JED in 2 hours 57 minutesAl Bahah399 km away, TIF in 2 hours 48 minutesBishah483 km away, AHB in 3 hours 6 minutesAr Rass566 km away, ELQ in 1 hour 3 minutesUnaizah622 km away, ELQ in 39 minutesAbha625 km away, AHB in 22 minutesKhamis Mushait631 km away, AHB in 21 minutes
All 25 Saudi Arabia cities are listed on the Saudi Arabia 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 JED and the other airports listed above, between Saudi Arabia 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 56 minutes drive to JED. 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 JED, 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 Rabigh list
01How far is Rabigh from JED?
It is 147 km of driving from Rabigh, roughly 1 hour 56 minutes. Parking or the transfer is paid by the desk, and if the timings are tight the desk pays for a room near JED the night before instead of hoping.
02What can I reach from Rabigh without a change of aircraft?
JED serves 150 airports nonstop across 55 countries with 70 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Rabigh can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 151 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Rabigh to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Rabigh the Gulf is a single sector: JED and DXB are joined nonstop, about 16 departures a day, flown by Emirates, flydubai and Saudia. That is roughly 2h 28m in the air over 1,700 km, and it means a consignment can leave Rabigh 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?
You do not. A residence visa is not asked for and not needed to be on the Rabigh list. What is asked for is a passport, the right to enter the country on the routing, and the ability to reach JED.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Applying costs nothing and always will. A courier on the Rabigh list makes exactly one payment to us, the AED 199 Academy, and gets it back in full with the fee for the first assignment they complete.
06How is my fee agreed?
Nothing is charged back to a courier in Rabigh and nothing is deducted. The fee agreed before you left Rabigh is the fee that reaches your account after the handover.
Apply to fly out of JED
The application takes about five minutes and asks what the desk actually needs to know: your passports, your visas, and how quickly you can be at JED.
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