Assignments are offered, never assigned. The desk sends the routing, the timings and the fee for one specific trip out of OAK, and you accept it or you do not. Living 43 minutes from the terminal simply means you see more of them, because the offers go out in order of who can physically make the flight.
Open · United States desk · Concord
On Board Courier, Concord
Courier assignments for people based in Concord, California. The drive to OAK is 43 minutes, the flight is booked and paid before you leave, and applying costs nothing.
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 inConcord, California
Nearest gateOAK · Oakland
Drive to the aircraft48 km · 43 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 travel light and you travel as yourself. Passport, phone, the consignment and whatever you need for one or two nights away from Concord. 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. The drive from Concord to OAK is 43 minutes, and the desk builds the timings around it rather than around the timetable alone.
Getting to the aircraft from Concord
The airports a courier in Concord can actually use are listed below, nearest first by driving time. OAK leads at 43 minutes and 48 km.
The 43 minutes between Concord and OAK is the ordinary shape of this work: long enough to plan, short enough to say yes to a flight tonight. A second airport is within reach of Concord: San Francisco at 58 minutes, with 189 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OAK | Oakland Metropolitan | 48 km | 43 minutes | 89 |
| SFO | San Francisco | 67 km | 58 minutes | 189 |
| SJC | San Jose Norman Y. Mineta | 85 km | 1 hour 6 minutes | 122 |
Concord is a city of 129,000 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
Nonstop reach decides how quickly a consignment leaves Concord. OAK serves 89 airports directly in 6 countries, and these are the routes with the most departures.
| 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 Concord 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.
The industry inside this catchment
What is made near OAK shapes what moves out of it in a hurry. The sites below are a matter of public record. Listing one is an explanation of why Concord generates urgent work, not a statement that the company works with us.
- Genentech, South San Francisco. Biotechnology research and manufacturing. The original biotech cluster, and still the densest. It sits on SFO, which is 58 minutes from Concord by road, and the sector is pharma.
Why a courier in Concord is useful to the desk
The desk would rather use a courier who already lives in Concord than fly one in. It costs less, it is faster, and it removes an entire positioning flight into OAK from the timeline. That is the whole commercial case for keeping names in Concord, 43 minutes from OAK.
Honesty about the routing out of OAK matters more than a good headline. From Concord the 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 Concord 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 Concord
Vallejo24 km away, OAK in 48 minutesFairfield30 km away, OAK in 1 hour 5 minutesLivermore40 km away, OAK in 37 minutesFremont48 km away, SJC in 25 minutesSan Mateo53 km away, SFO in 11 minutesTracy59 km away, OAK in 58 minutesStockton65 km away, OAK in 1 hour 21 minutesSan Jose72 km away, SJC in 7 minutesSanta Rosa79 km away, OAK in 1 hour 26 minutesSacramento82 km away, OAK in 1 hour 52 minutesModesto98 km away, OAK in 1 hour 32 minutesRoseville108 km away, OAK in 2 hours 13 minutes
All 208 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 43 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 Concord list
01How far is Concord from OAK?
By road it is 48 km and about 43 minutes from the centre of Concord to Oakland Metropolitan. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Concord against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Concord without a change of aircraft?
OAK serves 89 airports nonstop across 6 countries with 12 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Concord 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 Concord to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Concord the 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 Concord 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, and that is the point of posting Concord separately. The desk needs people near OAK as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Concord and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Concord list and no deposit of any kind. The Academy is AED 199 once, and that AED 199 is added back on top of what you are paid for your first completed assignment.
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.
Apply to fly out of OAK
Join the Concord list and see the offers as they come. The desk works California through OAK, and the fee is written down before you agree to anything.
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