Assignments are offered, never assigned. The desk sends the routing, the timings and the fee for one specific trip out of LGA, and you accept it or you do not. Living 1 hour 27 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.
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On Board Courier, Danbury
Courier assignments for people based in Danbury, Connecticut. The drive to LGA is 1 hour 27 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 inDanbury, Connecticut
Nearest gateLGA · New York
Drive to the aircraft99 km · 1 hour 27 minutes
Nonstop from LGA109 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 Danbury. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of ORD, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive from Danbury to LGA is 1 hour 27 minutes, and the desk builds the timings around it rather than around the timetable alone.
Getting to the aircraft from Danbury
The airports a courier in Danbury can actually use are listed below, nearest first by driving time. LGA leads at 1 hour 27 minutes and 99 km.
Two things follow from a 1 hour 27 minutes drive. The offers you see will carry more notice, and the desk will pay for a room near LGA rather than ask you to start before dawn. A second airport is within reach of Danbury: New York John F Kennedy at 1 hour 35 minutes, with 227 nonstop destinations. Between the two you rarely have only one way out.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LGA | New York La Guardia | 99 km | 1 hour 27 minutes | 109 |
| JFK | New York John F Kennedy | 111 km | 1 hour 35 minutes | 227 |
| EWR | Newark Liberty | 126 km | 1 hour 52 minutes | 201 |
Danbury is a city of 85,000 people in Connecticut, and the clock there runs 8 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 9 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 LGA reaches without a change
Nonstop reach decides how quickly a consignment leaves Danbury. LGA serves 109 airports directly in 4 countries, and these are the routes with the most departures.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD | Chicago | Chicago O'Hare | about 36 departures a day | 4 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| ATL | Atlanta | Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson | about 26 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| BOS | Boston | Boston General Edward Lawrence Logan | about 24 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines |
| YYZ | Toronto | Toronto Pearson | about 24 departures a day | 4 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Air Canada |
| DFW | Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas-Fort Worth | about 20 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| MIA | Miami | Miami | about 18 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines |
| CLT | Charlotte | Charlotte Douglas | about 15 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 15 departures a day | 4 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| DCA | Washington | Washington Ronald Reagan National | about 15 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines |
| BNA | Nashville | Nashville | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Danbury can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 316 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 Danbury
This site keeps a public register of industrial sites for some airports, and LGA is not one of them. Rather than guess, the honest statement is that assignments from Danbury are driven by deadlines rather than by any one factory: contracts, components, samples and valuables.
Why a courier in Danbury is useful to the desk
The desk would rather use a courier who already lives in Danbury than fly one in. It costs less, it is faster, and it removes an entire positioning flight into LGA from the timeline. That is the whole commercial case for keeping names in Danbury, 1 hour 27 minutes from LGA.
Honesty about the routing out of LGA matters more than a good headline. From Danbury the best single change is Chicago (ORD), and ORD to AUH is flown by Etihad Airways, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 46m gate to gate, so an assignment between Danbury 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 Danbury
Bridgeport33 km away, LGA in 1 hour 20 minutesWaterbury38 km away, LGA in 1 hour 57 minutesStamford39 km away, LGA in 51 minutesNew Haven45 km away, LGA in 1 hour 46 minutesYonkers64 km away, LGA in 29 minutesHartford76 km away, BOS in 2 hours 8 minutesSpringfield106 km away, BOS in 1 hour 56 minutesEdison126 km away, EWR in 35 minutesWorcester167 km away, BOS in 1 hour 3 minutesTrenton170 km away, PHL in 1 hour 5 minutesToms River172 km away, EWR in 1 hour 21 minutesProvidence176 km away, BOS in 1 hour 12 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 LGA 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 27 minutes drive to LGA. 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 LGA, 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 Danbury list
01How far is Danbury from LGA?
By road it is 99 km and about 1 hour 27 minutes from the centre of Danbury to New York La Guardia. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Danbury against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Danbury without a change of aircraft?
LGA serves 109 airports nonstop across 4 countries with 15 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Danbury can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 316 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Danbury to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Danbury the best single change is Chicago (ORD), and ORD to AUH is flown by Etihad Airways, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 17h 46m gate to gate, so an assignment between Danbury 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 Danbury separately. The desk needs people near LGA as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Danbury and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Danbury 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 LGA
Join the Danbury list and see the offers as they come. The desk works Connecticut through LGA, and the fee is written down before you agree to anything.
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