The desk does not ask you to be a logistics professional. It asks you to be reachable, presentable and 1 hour 32 minutes from MKE. Everything else, the booking out of MKE, the paperwork, the customs position and the consignee, is prepared in Dubai before you are called.
On Board Courier, Fond du Lac
Hand carry work from Fond du Lac and the surrounding Wisconsin area. Departures run through Milwaukee General Mitchell, 118 km by road, on a list you join once and stay on.
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.
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.
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.
How to start, in four steps
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
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
Some trips out of Fond du Lac are same day returns and some put you in a hotel while a return consignment is prepared. The offer says which before you accept it. 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 to MKE is 1 hour 32 minutes in either case, and the desk pays for the parking or the transfer.
Getting to the aircraft from Fond du Lac
What follows is the practical geography of flying out of Fond du Lac. The nearest usable gate is MKE at 1 hour 32 minutes, and anything else within a sensible drive is listed under it.
A drive of 1 hour 32 minutes is planned as a leg of the assignment, because it is one. The desk allows for the 118 km in the timings and in the fee. A courier in Fond du Lac has one airport and no fallback. That is worth knowing before you join the list, and it is why the MKE board is set out in full below.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MKE | Milwaukee General Mitchell | 118 km | 1 hour 32 minutes | 90 |
Fond du Lac is a city of 43,000 people in Wisconsin, and the clock there runs 9 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 10 in winter. 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 Fond du Lac may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What MKE reaches without a change
The only fact about MKE that changes what you can be offered is its nonstop board: 90 airports, 2 countries, 16 operating carriers. The busiest part of it is set out below.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD | Chicago | Chicago O'Hare | about 19 departures a day | 6 operators: American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Air Canada |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 8 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
| ATL | Atlanta | Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson | about 7 departures a day | 2 operators: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
| MSP | Minneapolis | Minneapolis Wold-Chamberlain | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines |
| DTW | Detroit | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: Delta Air Lines |
| DCA | Washington | Washington Ronald Reagan National | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: American Airlines, Southwest Airlines |
| LGA | New York | New York La Guardia | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Delta Air Lines |
| MCO | Orlando | Orlando | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| MDW | Chicago | Chicago Midway | about 4 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines |
| EWR | Newark | Newark Liberty | about 4 departures a day | 1 operator: United Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Fond du Lac can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 90 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 Fond du Lac
This page will not invent a factory near Fond du Lac. No public industrial file for MKE is held here, and the work that arises is deadline work rather than plant work.
Why a courier in Fond du Lac is useful to the desk
Being close to MKE is worth more than being in a large city. The desk measures couriers in minutes to the check in desk, and Fond du Lac measures 1 hour 32 minutes, which puts it ahead of plenty of better known places with worse roads.
From Fond du Lac the Emirates are reached by way of a hub, and the desk books the whole itinerary on one ticket. From Fond du Lac 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 16h 27m gate to gate, so an assignment between Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac
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 MKE, 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 32 minutes drive to MKE. 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 MKE, 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 Fond du Lac list
01How far is Fond du Lac from MKE?
The measured route is 118 km and about 1 hour 32 minutes from the centre of Fond du Lac to Milwaukee General Mitchell. The desk plans backwards from the bag drop at MKE, so the leaving time you are given will look early on purpose.
02What can I reach from Fond du Lac without a change of aircraft?
MKE serves 90 airports nonstop across 2 countries with 16 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Fond du Lac can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 90 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Fond du Lac to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Fond du Lac 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 16h 27m gate to gate, so an assignment between Fond du Lac 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. Living in Fond du Lac changes which offers you see, not whether you qualify. The desk records your distance from MKE when you apply for exactly that reason.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No fee to join the Fond du Lac list and no deposit of any kind. The AED 199 Academy is the only payment a courier in Fond du Lac makes to us, and that amount is added back on top of your first completed assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
The fee reflects the lane out of MKE, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate. It is agreed in writing before you leave Fond du Lac.
Apply to fly out of MKE
Add your name for MKE. Applying is free, the ticket is always ours, and the fee is agreed in writing every time.
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