What puts Brentwood, California on this list is a number, not a reputation. 1 hour 8 minutes from the centre to the counter at OAK, and 89 nonstop destinations waiting on the other side of it. A consignment that has to leave California today is offered to the people who can make the aircraft, and that number is what decides who they are.
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On Board Courier, Brentwood, California
A courier list for Brentwood, California. One sealed consignment in the cabin out of OAK, 1 hour 8 minutes from where you live, and a fee paid per completed assignment.
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 inBrentwood, California, California
Nearest gateOAK · Oakland
Drive to the aircraft80 km · 1 hour 8 minutes
Nonstop from OAK89 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 keep the consignment on you from the collection near Brentwood, California until the signature at the far end. It never goes into the hold at OAK, never goes through a service desk and never waits alone in a hotel room. From Brentwood, Californithe journey starts with 80 km of road. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of SEA, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real.
Getting to the aircraft from Brentwood, California
How the desk sees Brentwood, California: 1 hour 8 minutes from OAK, 80 km on the road, and 89 nonstop destinations at the end of it. Every gate within reach of Brentwood, California is listed below in the order of that drive.
The road is the predictable part of the trip at 1 hour 8 minutes. The desk times the drive to OAK backwards from the check in deadline and adds slack on top of that. Brentwood, California is not tied to one gate. SJC is 1 hour 18 minutes from Brentwood, California and serves 122 nonstop destinations of its own, and the desk uses whichever airport has the flight rather than whichever is nearest.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OAK | Oakland Metropolitan | 80 km | 1 hour 8 minutes | 89 |
| SJC | San Jose Norman Y. Mineta | 89 km | 1 hour 18 minutes | 122 |
| SFO | San Francisco | 103 km | 1 hour 26 minutes | 189 |
Brentwood, California is a city of 59,000 people in California, and the clock there runs 11 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 12 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 OAK reaches without a change
The desk checks the OAK board before it checks anything else. It holds 89 nonstop destinations in 6 countries, flown by 12 carriers, and the busiest end of it is here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAS | Las Vegas | Las Vegas McCarran | about 15 departures a day | 4 operators: Southwest Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| SAN | San Diego | San Diego | about 14 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| BUR | Burbank | Burbank Bob Hope | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines |
| SEA | Seattle | Seattle Tacoma | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| SNA | Santa Ana | Santa Ana John Wayne -Orange County | about 8 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| PDX | Portland | Portland | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| LAX | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines |
| PHX | Phoenix | Phoenix Sky Harbor | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| SLC | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City | about 6 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 5 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Brentwood, California can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 259 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 Brentwood, California
There is no published industrial map for the OAK area on this site, and a page that made one up would be worthless. The traffic out of Brentwood, California is the normal kind: documents that have to be witnessed, parts that stopped something, and samples with a clock on them.
Why a courier in Brentwood, California is useful to the desk
A courier in Brentwood, California removes a positioning flight from the timeline. Without one, somebody has to be flown into OAK before the real journey can start. With one, the journey starts with 1 hour 8 minutes of driving.
Between Brentwood, California and the Emirates there is a hub, and the connection is booked long enough to be real. From Brentwood, Californithe best single change is Seattle (SEA), and SEA to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 57m gate to gate, so an assignment between Brentwood, California 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 United States list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Brentwood, California
Livermore29 km away, OAK in 37 minutesConcord30 km away, OAK in 43 minutesSan Ramon30 km away, OAK in 32 minutesTracy32 km away, OAK in 58 minutesStockton36 km away, OAK in 1 hour 21 minutesFairfield46 km away, OAK in 1 hour 5 minutesFremont50 km away, SJC in 25 minutesVallejo53 km away, OAK in 48 minutesElk Grove60 km away, OAK in 2 hours 4 minutesNapa66 km away, OAK in 1 hour 8 minutesSan Jose68 km away, SJC in 7 minutesDavis68 km away, OAK in 1 hour 35 minutes
All 370 United States cities are listed on the United States 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 OAK and the other airports listed above, between the United States 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 8 minutes drive to OAK. 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 OAK, 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 Brentwood, California list
01How far is Brentwood, California from OAK?
The number is 80 km and 1 hour 8 minutes. Every city on the courier list has one, and it is the figure the desk sorts by when a consignment appears in California.
02What can I reach from Brentwood, California without a change of aircraft?
OAK serves 89 airports nonstop across 6 countries with 12 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Brentwood, California can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 259 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Brentwood, California to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Brentwood, Californithe best single change is Seattle (SEA), and SEA to DXB is flown by Emirates, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 57m gate to gate, so an assignment between Brentwood, California 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. There is no relocation out of Brentwood, California and no residence requirement. You live here, you fly from OAK, and the fee is transferred after the handover.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It costs nothing to apply from Brentwood, California. The Academy is AED 199, paid once before your first assignment out of OAK, and that AED 199 is added back on top of what you are paid for it.
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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