This is passenger travel with a job attached. You are booked on a scheduled service out of BIO, in the cabin, with a sealed consignment that never leaves you. The reason the desk keeps names in Irun is that 116 km of road is a short enough lead time to say yes to a departure the same day.
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On Board Courier, Irun
The desk keeps a courier list for Irun because BIO is close enough to matter: 116 km of road and 69 nonstop destinations from the terminal you walk into.
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 inIrun, Basque Country
Nearest gateBIO · Bilbao
Drive to the aircraft116 km · 1 hour 24 minutes
Nonstop from BIO69 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
An assignment is quoted as a whole: the routing from BIO, the waiting time, the return, and one fee for all of it. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of LGW, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. Nothing is deducted afterwards, and the drive of 1 hour 24 minutes to the airport is part of what the fee is calculated on.
Getting to the aircraft from Irun
Reachability, not size, is why Irun has a page here. Irun qualifies because Bilbao is 116 km away by road, 1 hour 24 minutes, and because that airport publishes a real scheduled nonstop board.
1 hour 24 minutes behind the wheel is a real commitment, and both the notice and the fee reflect it. Where the flight out of BIO leaves early, the desk books you in nearby the night before. There is no second board within reach of Irun. Everything runs through BIO at 1 hour 24 minutes, and when it has no suitable departure the assignment moves to another city.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIO | Bilbao | 116 km | 1 hour 24 minutes | 69 |
Irun is a city of 62,000 people in Basque Country, 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 Irun may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What BIO reaches without a change
A gate 1 hour 24 minutes from Irun is only useful if it goes somewhere. BIO goes to 69 airports nonstop in 24 countries, and the heaviest routes on that board are shown here with the airlines that fly them.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAD | Madrid | Madrid Adolfo Suárez-Barajas | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: Air Europa, Iberia |
| BCN | Barcelona | Barcelona | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: Vueling |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 4 departures a day | 3 operators: Vueling, Air Europa |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Vueling, KLM |
| LGW | London | London Gatwick | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Vueling |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Lufthansa |
| AGP | Málaga | Málaga | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Vueling |
| MXP | Milan | Milan Malpensa | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: Vueling, Wizz Air, easyJet |
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 3 departures a day | 1 operator: Lufthansa |
| SVQ | Seville | Seville Sevilla | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: Vueling |
Counting every airport a courier in Irun can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 69 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 Irun
Nothing is claimed here about what is made near Irun, because this site holds no public industrial file for BIO. The demand around Irun is the ordinary kind: a contract, a part, a batch that has to be somewhere else by morning.
Why a courier in Irun is useful to the desk
What the desk buys when it books a courier in Irun is the ground half of a delivery. The flying out of BIO is easy to arrange. Getting a trustworthy person and a sealed consignment to BIO inside a few hours is the part that fails, and 1 hour 24 minutes is why it does not fail here.
What a Gulf assignment out of Irun looks like on a ticket. From Irun the best single change is London (LGW), and LGW to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 9h 57m gate to gate, so an assignment between Irun 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 Spain list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Irun
Donostia / San Sebastián15 km away, BIO in 1 hour 12 minutesPamplona59 km away, BIO in 1 hour 59 minutesGasteiz / Vitoria90 km away, BIO in 1 hour 1 minutesBilbao92 km away, BIO in 12 minutesLogrono111 km away, BIO in 1 hour 43 minutesSantander163 km away, BIO in 1 hour 22 minutesBurgos191 km away, BIO in 2 hours 3 minutesLleida275 km away, BCN in 1 hour 58 minutesGuadalajara322 km away, MAD in 40 minutesAlcalá de Henares343 km away, MAD in 30 minutesManresa346 km away, BCN in 1 hourAlcobendas346 km away, MAD in 19 minutes
All 64 Spain cities are listed on the Spain 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 BIO, between Spain 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 24 minutes drive to BIO. 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 BIO, 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 Irun list
01How far is Irun from BIO?
From the centre of Irun the drive is 116 km and roughly 1 hour 24 minutes. Where the departure is early enough to make that uncomfortable, the desk books a room near BIO instead.
02What can I reach from Irun without a change of aircraft?
BIO serves 69 airports nonstop across 24 countries with 33 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Irun can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 69 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Irun to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Irun the best single change is London (LGW), and LGW to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 4 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 9h 57m gate to gate, so an assignment between Irun 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 company is Emirati and the coordination is done in Dubai, but the courier list is worldwide and Irun is on it precisely because somebody has to be near BIO.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. Applying from Irun costs nothing and screening costs nothing. The Academy is AED 199, paid once by everybody on the Irun list, and returned in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
The desk quotes the whole assignment: the sector out of BIO, the waiting, the return and the ground time. One figure for the trip out of BIO, agreed in advance and paid after the handover.
Apply to fly out of BIO
Sign up once for Irun. What happens after that is entirely your decision, one BIO departure at a time.
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