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Zug · ZRH · approx. 6h 50m from the UAE

On board courier Zug

A vetted courier collects in Zug, carries your consignment in the aircraft cabin and hands it over in person in the Emirates, or does exactly the reverse. Never in the hold, never in a warehouse, never out of one named person's custody. There is no reliable non-stop from the Emirates, so the practical routing is a UAE flight into the nearest metro and a domestic sector or road leg into Zug. We plan that leg as part of the assignment rather than handing it to a local agent.

Departures from DXB, DWC, AUH, SHJ, RKT, FJR and AAN · both directions · third-country legs on request

RouteUAE → ZRH
Typical flying time6h 50m
Distance≈4,750 km
Typical outcomeSame-Day

One person beats a parcel network to Zug

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.
CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in Zug, same day or next morning
Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.
Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5
0h24h48h72h96h+

When a seat beats a parcel, the full comparison →

Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

  • One named courier from collection to signature
  • Customs cleared in person on arrival
  • Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Zurich (ZRH) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (multiple daily)
AUHEtihad (daily)
DOHQatar Airways (multiple daily)
DXBSWISS (daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

FDHFriedrichshafen Airport, Friedrichshafen · ≈75 km straight-line · connection gateway
BSLEuroAirport Basel Mulhouse, Basel · ≈80 km straight-line · connection gateway
SXBStrasbourg Airport, Strasbourg · ≈140 km straight-line · connection gateway

When the primary airport’s timing loses, a late bank, a curfew, a fog morning, the quote compares these alternates with the true road leg included, and names the winner.

220countries and territories on the desk
500+airports a courier can be booked into
15 minfrom your message to a firm price
24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for Zug

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For Zug that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities
flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback
Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for Zug is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at Zug first, at a fare the quote can carry.

Zug: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

What moves between Zug and the Emirates

Commodity trading and holding company headquarters — the historic seat of Glencore and a dense cluster of trading and crypto-industry companies known as “Crypto Valley”.

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Signed originals for commodity trading and holding structures, corporate seals and board resolutions, bullion and precious-metals documentation, and blockchain and fintech corporate paperwork.

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Zug is a tiny canton that punches enormously above its weight: a favourable tax regime built a concentration of commodity trading and holding company headquarters here that rivals much larger financial centres, and the same low-tax, business-friendly environment more recently drew a cluster of blockchain and crypto companies dense enough that the canton is known globally as Crypto Valley. What moves out of Zug is almost never bulky and almost always critical, a signed trading contract, a board resolution, a bullion certificate, the exact profile an on board courier exists for. Zug has no airport of its own, so consignments route through Zurich, half an hour away by train, and the corporate and trading professionals based here who already travel to Dubai's own commodity trading hub, DMCC, are a strong courier-recruitment base.

Courier or air cargo out of Zug?

On board courier vs air cargo

The same consignment could fly Zug, Dubai as air cargo in the hold of the very same aircraft. This is what changes when a vetted person carries it in the cabin instead.

On board courier

A person in a seat

  • Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
  • One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
  • Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
  • No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
  • Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
  • Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
  • Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
  • Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
  • A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

  • Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
  • Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
  • Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
  • Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
  • Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
  • Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
  • Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
  • Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
  • Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

Both directions, and the third one

UAE → Zug

Collection anywhere in the Emirates, departure from whichever UAE airport has the next suitable flight, clearance and delivery in Zug against signature and ID.

Zug → UAE

Collection in Zug, export formalities handled, and delivery anywhere in the Emirates, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, the free zones or a hotel desk at three in the morning.

Zug → the world

Onward through the Emirates to Europe, Africa, the Far East or the Americas on one continuous chain of custody, rather than two separate shipments with a gap in the middle.

Documents and originals

Tenders, attestations, apostilled certificates, bank instruments and contracts, the consignments where a scan is not a substitute and a deadline is a wall.

High value

Stones, jewellery, precious metals and prototypes, declared properly, insured on the declared value and never out of a named person's hands.

Regulated categories

Pharmaceutical, biological and temperature-controlled material with the permits confirmed before departure and a data logger where the specification calls for one.

Hand carry between Zug and the Emirates, in detail

It is worth being precise about what an on board courier is, because the phrase gets used for three different products. It is not a faster parcel service, it is not a premium express label, and it is not a charter. It is a person who buys a seat on a scheduled flight and carries your consignment in the cabin, in their own custody, from the moment they collect it to the moment somebody signs for it.

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It is also worth saying what the service does not fix. It does not make a permit appear, it does not make a sanctioned party acceptable, and it does not make an undeclared battery legal. Where those are the problem, a courier only makes the problem arrive faster, which is why the screening happens before the quote.

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What clients are actually buying is the removal of every handover. In a normal air freight movement a consignment changes hands seven or eight times: shipper, forwarder, handling agent, ramp, aircraft, ramp, break-bulk, broker, delivery agent. Each handover is a queue and each queue is where hours disappear. A courier reduces that number to one, collection, and one more, delivery.

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Applied to Zug, the practical upshot is simple: tell us the contents, the value, the deadline and the receiving party, and we will tell you within the hour whether a courier is the right answer, what it costs, and which flight it goes on. Where the honest answer is freight, you will get that instead.

How a Zug assignment actually runs

From the first message to the delivery signature, a Zug assignment passes through six stages. None of them are automated away, and none of them involve your consignment sitting in a warehouse overnight.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

We need four things before we can say anything useful: what is inside, what it is worth, where exactly it has to be, and by when. Not a category, the actual item. “Electronic component” and “lithium battery pack” are the same box to you and two entirely different answers for a flight to Zug.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

Before a price exists we screen the parties, the commodity and the route against sanctions and export-control lists, and we check whether Zug requires a permit or a licensed consignee for that category. This is also where we occasionally say no, and a provider who never says no has simply moved the risk onto you.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

The matching runs against couriers who are available now, whose passport and visas suit the route to Zug, and whose delivery history fits the value of the consignment. The ticket is then bought in the courier's own name, matching their passport exactly, a booking in anything but the traveller's legal name is refused at the gate.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

The courier collects in person, checks the goods against the description, seals the packaging with a numbered tamper-evident seal and photographs it. The commercial invoice, packing list and any permit travel with the courier, and a copy reaches our operations desk and the consignee in Zug at the same moment.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

It stays in one named courier's documented custody for the whole sector, in the aircraft cabin wherever size, classification, security rules and the operating airline permit it, and otherwise under an approved accompanied process. On the ground at any transit point the courier stays airside with it. There is no depot, no consolidation window and no overnight sort anywhere in the routing to Zug.

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

The courier declares the goods through the red channel at Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH), answers questions in person and, where the category or the value warrants it, meets a customs broker we have already briefed. The handover is against signature, printed name and an identification reference, timestamped and with photographs where you have asked for them.

Who books a courier to Zug

Hand-carry demand is not evenly spread, it clusters in industries where an hour of delay costs more than the flight. These are the ones that book Zug most often, and what they send.

Automotive and mobility

Prototypes under confidentiality, homologation samples, tooling inserts and line-critical components moving to build schedules that were fixed months ago.

Legal, banking and tender originals

Closing documents, tender submissions, legalised certificates, guarantees and instruments that only count as originals. A scan is not a submission, and a deadline in Zug is usually a clock on a wall rather than a courtesy.

Aviation and AOG

A grounded aircraft costs more per hour than the entire logistics budget for the month. Rotables, avionics, seals and the certification paperwork that must travel with them are the most time-sensitive freight that exists, and industries like these in Zug generate them continuously.

Life sciences and diagnostics

Clinical trial samples, diagnostic material, reference standards and biologics, most of them with a stability window measured in hours rather than days and a data logger recording every minute of the journey to Zug.

Jewellery, watches and precious goods

Loose stones, finished pieces, movements and bullion documentation, carried in the cabin under one named person's custody and declared properly on arrival in Switzerland rather than hopefully.

Semiconductors and electronics

Wafers, reticles, test boards, display panels and pre-production units. Small, fragile, export-controlled and usually holding up a fab, a lab or a product launch somewhere.

The paperwork that decides how fast Zug goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH).

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in Switzerland are the consignee's cost unless you have agreed otherwise in writing, and the terms should be settled before departure. It is a small conversation before the flight and an expensive one after it.

Seal and photographic record

A numbered tamper-evident seal applied at collection and checked at delivery, with photographs at both ends. It costs nothing and it settles every argument about whether a package was opened between the two points.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter Switzerland temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH) into an afternoon.

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to Switzerland can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

Certificates and permits

Certificates of origin, health and phytosanitary certificates, dangerous goods declarations, export licences for dual-use items, import permits for regulated categories. We identify which of these Switzerland wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH) is far too late.

What a Zug courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

Regulatory profile of the goods

Batteries, biological material, temperature-controlled consignments and anything export-controlled require preparation, sometimes a permit and occasionally a specialist packer. That work is real and it appears in the quote rather than as a surprise at the airport.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in a Zug quote.

Weekends, nights and public holidays

We operate around the clock, and a consignment collected at 02:00 on a Friday is a normal assignment rather than a special case. It is priced the same way as any other; what changes is which flights exist, not what we charge for our part.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Anything beyond normal cabin baggage means a second seat, and occasionally two. An extra seat sounds dramatic until you compare it with a charter: it is an order of magnitude cheaper and it moves at the speed of a scheduled flight.

What is always included

Ticket, courier fee, airport transfers, the hotel where an overnight is unavoidable, the documentation work and our operations desk being awake for the whole journey. What is not included is duty and tax in Switzerland, and anything you ask for after departure that changes the routing.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in Switzerland sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

What can go wrong on a Zug assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

The goods turn out to be regulated

Found before departure, this is a repack or a permit. Found at security, it is a lost flight and sometimes a confiscation. It is the reason we ask uncomfortable questions about contents at the very beginning instead of taking a booking politely.

Customs asks a question

A person can answer it. That single fact is most of the difference between a hand-carry and a cargo booking: a query at Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH) that would idle a shipment for a day gets resolved at the counter in minutes because the person who knows what is in the box is standing there.

Something needs to continue past Zug

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

The courier is refused boarding

Almost always a document problem: a passport too close to expiry, a missing transit visa, a name on the ticket that does not match the passport. Every one of those is checked at assignment, and it is checked again before the courier leaves for the airport.

The declared value is challenged

It happens, and it is survivable when the invoice is realistic and consistent with the goods. It is not survivable when someone wrote a convenient number. We check this before departure precisely because there is no way to fix it afterwards.

The flight is cancelled

Not a crisis, a routine. Before the courier leaves for the airport we already know the next two departures that could carry the consignment to Zug, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

More questions about couriers to and from Zug

The questions clients actually ask before their first assignment, answered without marketing language.

01How is delivery proven?

Signature, printed name and an identification reference, with a timestamp, plus photographs where you have asked for them. It is produced by the courier at the moment of handover in Zug, not generated by a depot three hours later.

02Are you an airline?

No. OnBoard Courier is a courier placement and brokerage business based in Dubai. We vet, train and insure couriers, screen consignments and buy ordinary passenger seats on scheduled flights. We operate no aircraft, hold no alliance membership and have no exclusive carrier contract, which is exactly what lets us put a courier on whichever airline departs next for Zug.

03How quickly can a courier leave for Zug?

A vetted courier can normally be at a UAE airport within two to four hours of a confirmed booking. The real constraint is not our side, it is the next departure with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits. Because we use all seven UAE airports and buy on the open market rather than through one carrier, that next departure is usually sooner than people expect.

04Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

No. That is the definition of the service rather than a policy we could relax. It travels in the cabin, in the courier's custody, for every sector of the journey to Zug. If something genuinely cannot travel in a cabin, we will tell you that and discuss freight or a charter instead of pretending.

05What happens if the flight is cancelled?

We rebook. Before departure we already know the next alternatives to Zug across the carriers we can lawfully use, so a cancellation costs hours rather than a day. You are told the new arrival time as soon as we have it, not after you ask.

06Is the consignment insured?

All-risk cover on the declared value is arranged on request and confirmed in writing before collection. We do not rely on airline liability, because under the Montreal Convention that liability is a small fraction of what most courier consignments are worth.

07Can you collect outside the UAE?

Yes. Third-country assignments, collect in one country, deliver in another, are a normal part of the work, and they are routed through the fastest connection rather than automatically through Dubai. Where a courier already in the region can take it, that is what happens.

08What cannot travel with a courier?

Undeclared dangerous goods, controlled substances, weapons and weapon parts, counterfeits, unlicensed dual-use items, live animals, and anything whose parties or end use fail sanctions screening. Some regulated categories can travel with the right permit and packing; we tell you which case yours is before you pay.

09Do you handle customs at Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH)?

The courier declares the goods in person through the red channel, and where the value or the category warrants it we brief a licensed customs broker in Switzerland in advance. Duty and tax are the consignee's cost unless agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk
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Questions about Zug

01How long does a courier take between Zug and Dubai?

Block time on this routing is about 6h 50m. Realistically the door-to-door figure is that plus the collection, the check-in cut-off, clearance and the delivery leg, so a consignment collected in the morning is normally handed over the same evening, and one collected in the evening lands overnight. There is no reliable non-stop from the Emirates, so the practical routing is a UAE flight into the nearest metro and a domestic sector or road leg into Zug. We plan that leg as part of the assignment rather than handing it to a local agent.

02Do you carry from Zug to the UAE as well as the other way?

Both directions, and third-country legs too. A great deal of Zug work is outbound: an exporter sending samples, stones, documents or spares to a buyer in the Emirates or onward through Dubai to Europe, Africa or the Far East. We collect in Zug, handle the export formalities and deliver in the UAE or wherever the routing ends.

03What do you usually carry to and from Zug?

Signed originals for commodity trading and holding structures, corporate seals and board resolutions, bullion and precious-metals documentation, and blockchain and fintech corporate paperwork.

04Which airport do you use for Zug?

Zurich Airport, about 30 minutes by rail (ZRH). On the UAE side we use whichever of the seven Emirates airports has the next suitable departure, Dubai (DXB and DWC), Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah or Al Ain. Being independent of any single carrier is what makes that choice possible.

05Can a Swiss passport holder fly this route as your courier?

Yes, and a large part of the courier network is exactly that. For UAE entry we confirm the current visa position for each courier individually before assigning, the rules differ depending on which other visas or residence permits the courier already holds, and they change. If you are based in Zug and want to fly as a courier, the application takes two minutes.

06What does customs look like at Zug?

A commercial consignment is declared on arrival and duty or tax may apply. Regulated categories, pharmaceuticals, precious stones and metals, food and agricultural material, telecom and electronics in some cases, need a permit, a licence or a registered consignee, and we confirm the requirement for your specific commodity before the courier departs rather than at the counter.

Courier work to and from Other Switzerland cities on this

Every one of them runs in both directions, with the same fixed pricing and the same documentation discipline.

Zug · both directions

Send something between Zug and the Emirates

Email us what it is, what it is worth and when it has to arrive. You get a fixed price, a named courier and a flight number, usually inside fifteen minutes, at any hour.

What a quote to Zug looks like

The reply you get back, usually inside 15 minutes, at any hour. Figures illustrate the AUH to ZRH sector, not a live price.

Sample quotation, illustrative figuresRe: Urgent OBC, AUH to ZRH
Clientbookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae

We have a marine spare for a vessel alongside that must be in Zug as fast as possible. Ready for collection in Abu Dhabi today, what can you do?

OnBoard Courier → Client replied in 13 min
ServiceAirport to airport · on board courier
LimitsMax. 152 linear cm · 23 kg per piece
PickupToday · 3 hrs before departure
DeliveryASAP after customs
Flight routing
AUH → ZRHdep 08:40 · approx 6h 50m · Etihad
Customs
Export / importQuoted separately per shipment
Offer includes
 Flight cost · courier fee · hotel where the routing needs one
Indicative total AED 12,300 (~US$ 3,350) typical band AED 9,450 to 15,150 (~US$ 2,570 to 4,130)
Offer validity: 60 minutes Reply “job confirmed” to book

Subject to seat availability at confirmation. Live quotes are priced on the day's fares.

Clientbookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae

job confirmed

From the operations desk

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

LegalDXB → SIN

Signed originals for a company closing that could not wait for a courier network.

Collected DIFC17:40
Non-stop overnight20:50
At the notary09:15 +1
✓ Closing held on schedule.
AutomotiveSTR → DXB

A prototype part for a validation rig, crated to fit the cabin allowance.

Plant pickup09:40
Via FRA13:30
Test bench23:55
✓ Rig time kept, no week lost to freight.
AOGDXB → FRA

A narrow-body grounded for a hydraulic sensor at a Frankfurt MRO line.

Collected14:10
Wheels up18:15
At the MRO line23:40
✓ Aircraft released for the morning wave.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

A seat of its own, never out of sight

The case flies belted in the cabin next to the courier, never checked in.

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An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

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Three ways the desk can move Zug

Same courier, same cabin, different amount of ground work. The desk recommends one of these in the quote and prices the other two if you ask.

The lean one

Airport to airport

  • A courier meets your driver airside at the departure airport
  • The consignment stays in the cabin for the whole flight
  • Your consignee, or their broker, collects at the arrival airport
  • Cleared in person, questions answered at the counter

Best when both ends have people who can reach an airport.

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What most clients book

Door to door

  • Collection at your address, sealed and photographed
  • One named courier from that door to the signature
  • Customs cleared in person on arrival, duties handled as agreed
  • Proof of delivery with signature, identity check and photograph

The full chain, one price, one person answerable for it.

Price this for Zug
When the schedule will not do

Charter and relay

  • A second courier takes over where a visa or a duty limit stops the first
  • A private aircraft where the last airline departure has gone
  • Ground relay across a border when flying is the slower option
  • Priced case by case, in writing, before anything moves

For deadlines that a scheduled seat cannot reach.

Price this for Zug

Every option is quoted as one all-in figure with a named flight. Nothing on this page is a rate card.

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