Assignments are offered, never assigned. The desk sends the routing, the timings and the fee for one specific trip out of DTW, and you accept it or you do not. Living 1 hour 31 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, Flint
Courier assignments for people based in Flint, Michigan. The drive to DTW is 1 hour 31 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 inFlint, Michigan
Nearest gateDTW · Detroit
Drive to the aircraft127 km · 1 hour 31 minutes
Nonstop from DTW147 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 Flint. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of AMS, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. The drive from Flint to DTW is 1 hour 31 minutes, and the desk builds the timings around it rather than around the timetable alone.
Getting to the aircraft from Flint
The airports a courier in Flint can actually use are listed below, nearest first by driving time. DTW leads at 1 hour 31 minutes and 127 km.
Two things follow from a 1 hour 31 minutes drive. The offers you see will carry more notice, and the desk will pay for a room near DTW rather than ask you to start before dawn. Nothing else is close enough to Flint to be useful, so DTW carries every assignment. Its 147 nonstop destinations are the ceiling, and the desk plans around that rather than pretending otherwise.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTW | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | 127 km | 1 hour 31 minutes | 147 |
Flint is a city of 98,000 people in Michigan, 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 DTW reaches without a change
Nonstop reach decides how quickly a consignment leaves Flint. DTW serves 147 airports directly in 17 countries, and these are the routes with the most departures.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD | Chicago | Chicago O'Hare | about 16 departures a day | 5 operators: American Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada |
| ATL | Atlanta | Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson | about 15 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 11 departures a day | 4 operators: Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, United Airlines |
| DFW | Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas-Fort Worth | about 11 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, American Airlines |
| EWR | Newark | Newark Liberty | about 10 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines |
| PHL | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | about 10 departures a day | 3 operators: Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, American Airlines |
| MCO | Orlando | Orlando | about 10 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines |
| CLT | Charlotte | Charlotte Douglas | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines |
| BOS | Boston | Boston General Edward Lawrence Logan | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, JetBlue |
| DCA | Washington | Washington Ronald Reagan National | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Flint can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 147 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 DTW 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 Flint generates urgent work, not a statement that the company works with us.
- Ford, Dearborn and Cologne. Assembly on both sides of the Atlantic. A single engineering organisation split across two continents. It sits on DTW, which is 1 hour 31 minutes from Flint by road, and the sector is automotive.
Why a courier in Flint is useful to the desk
The desk would rather use a courier who already lives in Flint than fly one in. It costs less, it is faster, and it removes an entire positioning flight into DTW from the timeline. That is the whole commercial case for keeping names in Flint, 1 hour 31 minutes from DTW.
Honesty about the routing out of DTW matters more than a good headline. From Flint the best single change is Amsterdam (AMS), and AMS to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 16h 02m gate to gate, so an assignment between Flint 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 Flint
Waterford42 km away, DTW in 58 minutesSterling Heights72 km away, DTW in 55 minutesLivonia77 km away, DTW in 21 minutesLansing77 km away, DTW in 1 hour 44 minutesAnn Arbor82 km away, DTW in 34 minutesDetroit92 km away, DTW in 31 minutesToledo150 km away, DTW in 1 hour 2 minutesKalamazoo175 km away, DTW in 2 hours 18 minutesCleveland235 km away, CLE in 23 minutesSouth Bend257 km away, MDW in 2 hours 6 minutesAkron280 km away, CLE in 58 minutesErie311 km away, CLE in 2 hours 22 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 DTW, 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 31 minutes drive to DTW. 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 DTW, 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 Flint list
01How far is Flint from DTW?
By road it is 127 km and about 1 hour 31 minutes from the centre of Flint to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County. That figure is a measured driving route, not a straight line, and the desk plans your departure from Flint against the check in deadline rather than the take off time.
02What can I reach from Flint without a change of aircraft?
DTW serves 147 airports nonstop across 17 countries with 25 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Flint can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 147 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Flint to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Flint the best single change is Amsterdam (AMS), and AMS to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 3 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 16h 02m gate to gate, so an assignment between Flint 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 Flint separately. The desk needs people near DTW as much as it needs people at DXB. Tell us where you live in Flint and how fast you can be at the terminal.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. There is no fee to join the Flint 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 DTW
Join the Flint list and see the offers as they come. The desk works Michigan through DTW, and the fee is written down before you agree to anything.
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