Hammond is on the list because MDW is reachable and busy. 208 scheduled nonstop destinations and 15 operating carriers mean the desk is rarely stuck for a routing, and 46 minutes of road means you are rarely too far to take it. Those two facts together are the whole reason Hammond has a page of its own.
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On Board Courier, Hammond
Time critical hand carry assignments from Hammond. One consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature, 46 minutes between your front door and the check in desk at MDW.
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 inHammond, Indiana
Nearest gateMDW · Chicago
Drive to the aircraft43 km · 46 minutes
Nonstop from MDW208 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 will usually know the day before, sometimes only in the morning. The desk sends the routing out of MDW, the sealed consignment reaches you or you collect it, and the drive of 46 minutes is timed backwards from the check in deadline rather than the departure. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of ATL, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real.
Getting to the aircraft from Hammond
Measured door to terminal, Hammond to MDW is 43 km and 46 minutes. That is the number the desk uses when it decides whether to call Hammond for a departure this evening.
At 46 minutes the desk will normally ask you to leave Hammond about three hours before departure, more if the routing needs a bag drop cut off. A backup gate changes what can be promised out of Hammond. From Hammond, Chicago O'Hare is 1 hour 22 minutes away and flies to 295 airports nonstop, so the desk has somewhere to move a consignment when the first flight goes.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDW | Chicago Midway | 43 km | 46 minutes | 208 |
| ORD | Chicago O'Hare | 77 km | 1 hour 22 minutes | 295 |
| MKE | Milwaukee General Mitchell | 176 km | 2 hours 20 minutes | 90 |
Hammond is a city of 78,000 people in Indiana, 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.
What MDW reaches without a change
The relevant question about MDW is not how big it is but what it flies. 208 nonstop destinations across 5 countries, and the ones with real frequency are listed here.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL | Atlanta | Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson | about 11 departures a day | 3 operators: Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines |
| MSP | Minneapolis | Minneapolis Wold-Chamberlain | about 9 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
| DAL | Dallas | Dallas Love Field | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: Southwest Airlines |
| BNA | Nashville | Nashville | about 8 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 8 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| LGA | New York | New York La Guardia | about 8 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| PHX | Phoenix | Phoenix Sky Harbor | about 7 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| MCI | Kansas City | Kansas City | about 7 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| LAS | Las Vegas | Las Vegas McCarran | about 7 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
| DCA | Washington | Washington Ronald Reagan National | about 7 departures a day | 1 operator: Southwest Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Hammond can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 386 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 Hammond
The site does not hold a public industrial file for the MDW catchment, so this page will not invent one. What it can say honestly is that Hammond generates the ordinary urgent traffic every working city generates: signed originals, spare parts, samples and small high value items that missed a cut off.
Why a courier in Hammond is useful to the desk
Most of what the desk moves out of Indiana is small, sealed and late. The constraint is never the size, it is finding a person near enough to MDW. Hammond is near enough: 46 minutes to MDW, on a board with 208 nonstop destinations.
There is no nonstop between MDW and the Emirates, and the page is not going to pretend otherwise. From Hammond the best single change is Atlanta (ATL), and ATL to AUH is flown by Etihad Airways, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 18h 07m gate to gate, so an assignment between Hammond 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 Hammond
Joliet49 km away, MDW in 1 hourArlington Heights69 km away, ORD in 39 minutesAurora71 km away, MDW in 1 hour 5 minutesElgin82 km away, ORD in 53 minutesWaukegan91 km away, MKE in 57 minutesSouth Bend104 km away, MDW in 2 hours 6 minutesKenosha114 km away, MKE in 46 minutesLafayette140 km away, IND in 1 hour 26 minutesRockford152 km away, ORD in 1 hour 46 minutesMilwaukee165 km away, MKE in 16 minutesWaukesha170 km away, MKE in 38 minutesChampaign175 km away, IND in 2 hours 25 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 MDW 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 46 minutes drive to MDW. 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 MDW, 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 Hammond list
01How far is Hammond from MDW?
About 46 minutes, 43 km by road. The desk has that number for every city on the list and uses it to decide who gets called for a departure out of MDW tonight.
02What can I reach from Hammond without a change of aircraft?
MDW serves 208 airports nonstop across 5 countries with 15 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Hammond can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 386 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Hammond to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Hammond the best single change is Atlanta (ATL), and ATL to AUH is flown by Etihad Airways, about one departure a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 18h 07m gate to gate, so an assignment between Hammond 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. Most assignments touch the Emirates because the desk is there, but couriers on this list live in Hammond and fly from MDW. Being in Hammond changes which offers you see, not whether you can be on the list.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
No. Applying is free, screening is free, and being on the Hammond list is free. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and it comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier in Hammond ever makes to us.
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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