Yuanlin is on the list because KHH is reachable and busy. 37 scheduled nonstop destinations and 27 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 2 hours 9 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Yuanlin has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Yuanlin
Time critical hand carry assignments from Yuanlin. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 2 hours 9 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at KHH.
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 inYuanlin, Taiwan
Nearest gateKHH · Kaohsiung City
Drive to the aircraft172 km · 2 hours 9 minutes
Nonstop from KHH37 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
You will usually know the day before, sometimes only in the morning. The desk sends the routing out of KHH, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 2 hours 9 minutes is timed backwards from the check in deadline rather than the departure. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of HKG, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real.
Getting to the aircraft from Yuanlin
Measured door to terminal, Yuanlin to KHH is 172 km and 2 hours 9 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Yuanlin for a departure this evening.
At 2 hours 9 minutes the drive from Yuanlin is the risky half of the trip, so it is planned rather than assumed: an earlier departure from home, and where the flight is early, a room near KHH paid by the desk. A backup gate changes what can be promised out of Yuanlin. From Yuanlin, Taipei Taiwan Taoyuan is 2 hours 18 minutes away and flies to 108 airports nonstop, so the desk has somewhere to move a consignment when the first flight goes.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KHH | Kaohsiung City Kaohsiung | 172 km | 2 hours 9 minutes | 37 |
| TPE | Taipei Taiwan Taoyuan | 177 km | 2 hours 18 minutes | 108 |
Yuanlin is a city of 125,000 people in Taiwan, and the clock there runs 4 hours ahead of 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 Yuanlin may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What KHH reaches without a change
The relevant question about KHH is not how big it is but what it flies. 37 nonstop destinations across 11 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZG | Makung City | Makung City Makung | about 21 departures a day | 2 operators: Mandarin Airlines |
| KNH | Shang-I | Shang-I Kinmen | about 12 departures a day | 2 operators: Mandarin Airlines |
| HKG | Hong Kong | Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok | about 11 departures a day | 5 operators: Mandarin Airlines, China Airlines, EVA Air |
| NRT | Tokyo | Tokyo Narita | about 7 departures a day | 6 operators: China Airlines, EVA Air, Tigerair Taiwan |
| KIX | Osaka | Osaka Kansai | about 7 departures a day | 5 operators: China Airlines, EVA Air, Tigerair Taiwan |
| PUS | Busan-si | Busan-si Gimhae | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: T'way Air, Jeju Air, Air Busan |
| ICN | Seoul | Seoul Incheon | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: China Airlines, EVA Air, T'way Air |
| SGN | Ho Chi Minh City | Ho Chi Minh City Tan Son Nhat | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines |
| OKA | Naha | Naha | about 3 departures a day | 3 operators: China Airlines, Tigerair Taiwan, Thai Lion Air |
| MFM | Taipa | Taipa Macau | about 3 departures a day | 2 operators: EVA Air |
Counting every airport a courier in Yuanlin can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 113 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 Yuanlin
This site publishes an industrial register for some airports and not for KHH. Rather than invent one, the honest statement is that Yuanlin produces the traffic every working city produces: signed originals, spare parts, samples and small valuables that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Yuanlin is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of Taiwan is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to KHH. Yuanlin is near enough: 2 hours 9 minutes to KHH, on a board with 37 nonstop destinations.
There is no nonstop between KHH and the Emirates, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise. From Yuanlin the best single change is Hong Kong (HKG), and HKG to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 2 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 10h 11m gate to gate, so an assignment between Yuanlin 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 Taiwan list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Yuanlin
Chang-hua13 km away, TPE in 2 hours 7 minutesTaichung24 km away, TPE in 1 hour 55 minutesDouliu28 km away, KHH in 1 hour 50 minutesChiayi City55 km away, KHH in 1 hour 33 minutesToufen88 km away, TPE in 1 hourHsinchu102 km away, TPE in 52 minutesTainan114 km away, KHH in 46 minutesTaoyuan136 km away, TPE in 18 minutesShulin143 km away, TSA in 24 minutesKaohsiung151 km away, KHH in 13 minutesTaipei155 km away, TSA in 9 minutesDanshui161 km away, TSA in 28 minutes
All 15 Taiwan cities are listed on the Taiwan 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 KHH and the other airports listed above, between Taiwan 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 9 minutes drive to KHH. 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 KHH, 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 Yuanlin list
01How far is Yuanlin from KHH?
About 2 hours 9 minutes, 172 km by road. The desk has that number for every city on the list and uses it to decide who gets called for a departure out of KHH tonight.
02What can I reach from Yuanlin without a change of aircraft?
KHH serves 37 airports nonstop across 11 countries with 27 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Yuanlin can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 113 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Yuanlin to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Yuanlin the best single change is Hong Kong (HKG), and HKG to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 2 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 10h 11m gate to gate, so an assignment between Yuanlin 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 desk is in Dubai and the company is Emirati, but the courier list is worldwide and Yuanlin is on it. Where you live changes which assignments you are shown, not whether you qualify.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. The Yuanlin list is free to join and free to stay on. The only money that moves from you to us is the AED 199 Academy, paid once, and it comes back on top of the fee for your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
One assignment out of KHH, one fee, agreed in advance. The 2 hours 9 minutes you spend driving there is part of what that figure is calculated on.
Apply to fly out of KHH
If you can be at KHH within 2 hours 9 minutes and you have a passport with room in it, the rest is a conversation.
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