Redlands qualifies on a measured drive, not on a reputation. Los Angeles is 129 km from the centre, 1 hour 37 minutes by road, and it reaches 212 airports nonstop. Those are the two numbers that put the city on the list, and they are the numbers an offer is decided on.
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On Board Courier, Redlands
The Redlands courier list. 1 hour 37 minutes to LAX, 212 airports it reaches without a change, and a written fee for every assignment before you accept it.
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 inRedlands, California
Nearest gateLAX · Los Angeles
Drive to the aircraft129 km · 1 hour 37 minutes
Nonstop from LAX212 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
Nothing about a trip out of LAX is improvised. The routing, the consignee, the customs position and the return are settled before the desk calls Redlands. The Gulf sector out of LAX is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. What is left to you is the drive, the flight and the handover.
Getting to the aircraft from Redlands
One measurement decides what Redlands can be offered: 129 km of road to LAX, 1 hour 37 minutes at an ordinary speed. Every airport within reach of Redlands was measured the same way, so the lines below can be read against each other.
A 129 km drive means offers arrive with more notice. The desk cannot ring Redlands an hour before check in and expect it to work, and it does not try. Redundancy is part of why Redlands is listed. SAN is 2 hours 10 minutes away and flies to 123 airports directly, so a lost departure at LAX moves rather than dies.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAX | Los Angeles | 129 km | 1 hour 37 minutes | 212 |
| SAN | San Diego | 177 km | 2 hours 10 minutes | 123 |
Redlands is a city of 71,000 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. Only airports this site publishes a scheduled nonstop board for are listed, so a smaller field nearer Redlands may exist and still not appear in the table above.
What LAX reaches without a change
The board a courier in Redlands works from carries 212 nonstop destinations and 86 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights out of LAX, taken from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO | San Francisco | San Francisco | about 44 departures a day | 6 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| JFK | New York | New York John F Kennedy | about 34 departures a day | 6 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| LAS | Las Vegas | Las Vegas McCarran | about 28 departures a day | 6 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| ORD | Chicago | Chicago O'Hare | about 27 departures a day | 4 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| SEA | Seattle | Seattle Tacoma | about 26 departures a day | 5 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 24 departures a day | 5 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| PHX | Phoenix | Phoenix Sky Harbor | about 23 departures a day | 6 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines |
| DFW | Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas-Fort Worth | about 19 departures a day | 6 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
| HNL | Honolulu | Honolulu | about 18 departures a day | 6 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines |
| SMF | Sacramento | Sacramento | about 18 departures a day | 5 operators: Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Redlands can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 238 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 Redlands
Nothing about the industry near LAX is published here, so nothing is asserted. A working city of 71,000 people produces urgent consignments regardless, and those are the ones the desk moves.
Why a courier in Redlands is useful to the desk
The commercial case for a name in Redlands is subtraction. Without one, an urgent consignment out of California needs a positioning flight or a truck to a hub. With one it needs 1 hour 37 minutes of driving to LAX and a boarding pass.
The link that makes Redlands useful to a Dubai desk is a scheduled one. From Redlands the Gulf is a single sector: LAX and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 16h 24m in the air over 13,400 km, and it means a consignment can leave Redlands in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the United States list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Redlands
Riverside23 km away, LAX in 1 hour 23 minutesBeaumont, California24 km away, LAX in 1 hour 53 minutesMenifee37 km away, SAN in 1 hour 33 minutesRancho Cucamonga38 km away, LAX in 1 hour 13 minutesVictorville54 km away, LAX in 2 hours 1 minutesTemecula63 km away, SAN in 1 hour 10 minutesMission Viejo68 km away, LAX in 1 hour 6 minutesWest Covina70 km away, LAX in 46 minutesAnaheim72 km away, LAX in 44 minutesSan Clemente80 km away, SAN in 1 hour 9 minutesHuntington Beach87 km away, LAX in 52 minutesOceanside97 km away, SAN in 45 minutes
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 LAX 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 37 minutes drive to LAX. 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 LAX, 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 Redlands list
01How far is Redlands from LAX?
From Redlands the terminal at LAX is 129 km away, about 1 hour 37 minutes. The offer names the hour you should leave Redlands, not only the hour the aircraft goes.
02What can I reach from Redlands without a change of aircraft?
LAX serves 212 airports nonstop across 43 countries with 86 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Redlands can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 238 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Redlands to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Redlands the Gulf is a single sector: LAX and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 16h 24m in the air over 13,400 km, and it means a consignment can leave Redlands in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
04Do I have to live in the UAE to be on this list?
No. An Emirates address is not asked for and would not help a courier in Redlands. Being reachable and 1 hour 37 minutes from LAX is the whole qualification.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Nothing is charged to apply, to be screened or to be listed for LAX. The AED 199 Academy is the one payment a courier in Redlands makes, and it is returned on top of your first assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
The desk does not renegotiate a Redlands assignment after the fact. The fee for a trip out of LAX is fixed in the offer, and the offer is the thing you accept or decline.
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