Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is EWR. The desk holds a consignment that is late, valuable or perishable, finds the first departure that fits, and then looks for a courier who can be at the counter in time. Scranton is 2 hours 29 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 201 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Scranton
If you are in Scranton you are 2 hours 29 minutes from Newark Liberty and 201 scheduled nonstop destinations. That is the whole starting qualification. Freelance, per assignment, ticket paid.
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 inScranton, Pennsylvania
Nearest gateEWR · Newark
Drive to the aircraft190 km · 2 hours 29 minutes
Nonstop from EWR201 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
There is no roster and no shift on the Scranton list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 190 km to EWR, board, land, clear, hand over. Where the routing runs through the Emirates it goes by way of LHR, on one ticket, with the connection booked long enough to be real. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Scranton
The ground leg from Scranton is 190 km to Newark Liberty, about 2 hours 29 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Scranton it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
190 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 2 hours 29 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by EWR the night before rather than gamble on an early start. EWR is the only airport within a sensible drive of Scranton, so every assignment from here runs through it. That makes its 201 nonstop destinations the practical limit of what you can be offered.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EWR | Newark Liberty | 190 km | 2 hours 29 minutes | 201 |
Scranton is a city of 77,000 people in Pennsylvania, 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 EWR reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Newark Liberty: 201 nonstop destinations, 55 countries, 44 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD | Chicago | Chicago O'Hare | about 21 departures a day | 2 operators: United Airlines, American Airlines |
| ATL | Atlanta | Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson | about 18 departures a day | 3 operators: United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines |
| LAX | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: United Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines |
| MCO | Orlando | Orlando | about 14 departures a day | 3 operators: United Airlines, JetBlue, Frontier Airlines |
| SFO | San Francisco | San Francisco | about 13 departures a day | 1 operator: United Airlines |
| YUL | Montreal | Montreal Trudeau | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: United Airlines, Air Canada, Porter Airlines |
| BOS | Boston | Boston General Edward Lawrence Logan | about 12 departures a day | 3 operators: United Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
| YYZ | Toronto | Toronto Pearson | about 12 departures a day | 4 operators: United Airlines, Air Canada |
| DEN | Denver | Denver | about 11 departures a day | 2 operators: United Airlines, American Airlines |
| FLL | Fort Lauderdale | Fort Lauderdale Hollywood | about 11 departures a day | 2 operators: United Airlines, JetBlue |
Counting every airport a courier in Scranton can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 201 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 Scranton
No public industrial file exists here for Scranton, so none is claimed. Urgent hand carry demand in a city this size comes from deadlines, not from a single plant: a court filing, a machine that stopped, a batch that has to be tested.
Why a courier in Scranton is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Scranton is inside one. Scranton sits inside the catchment of Newark Liberty, 190 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The connection to Dubai from Scranton involves a change of aircraft. From Scranton the best single change is London (LHR), and LHR to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 7 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 15h 33m gate to gate, so an assignment between Scranton 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 Scranton
Allentown90 km away, PHL in 1 hour 28 minutesReading121 km away, PHL in 1 hour 30 minutesEdison144 km away, EWR in 35 minutesTrenton154 km away, PHL in 1 hour 5 minutesYonkers157 km away, LGA in 29 minutesPhiladelphia167 km away, PHL in 21 minutesStamford182 km away, LGA in 51 minutesDanbury184 km away, LGA in 1 hour 27 minutesWilmington185 km away, PHL in 32 minutesToms River204 km away, EWR in 1 hour 21 minutesBridgeport208 km away, LGA in 1 hour 20 minutesWaterbury218 km away, LGA in 1 hour 57 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 EWR, 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 2 hours 29 minutes drive to EWR. 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 EWR, 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 Scranton list
01How far is Scranton from EWR?
2 hours 29 minutes and 190 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Scranton rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Scranton without a change of aircraft?
EWR serves 201 airports nonstop across 55 countries with 44 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Scranton can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 201 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Scranton to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Scranton the best single change is London (LHR), and LHR to DXB is flown by Emirates, about 7 departures a day. Counting a normal connection that is around 15h 33m gate to gate, so an assignment between Scranton 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. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Scranton. The Scranton list exists because somebody has to be near EWR when a consignment appears in Pennsylvania.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Scranton and free to be screened. The one charge anywhere in the process is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and refunded on top of your first assignment fee.
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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