Travel Cheap by Being an Air Courier

Couriers can save a lot of money on airfare. They can catch a $99 flight overseas for the small lay over inconvenience of a day or two.

When you are a courier, you must travel with a single bag because you surrender your luggage allowance to the company hiring you as their agent.

Couriers receive discount airline tickets when they work for a company that has hired them to carry shipping documents on their flights.

Couriers are used because it is faster and cheaper to deliver freight as luggage rather than as air cargo. Other important materials couriers may carry are time-sensitive business documents or medicines.

While you are a courier, you are only allowed to bring carry on luggage. You are not allowed to check in your own luggage. You are expected to give up your baggage allowance to the company hiring you as their courier. They need your allowance to carry the items they want to ship.

You must make sure you can make the flight because courier tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. They are regular round trip coach tickets.

Most likely, you will not keep any frequent flier mileage earned. It depends on the policy of the courier company. On the bright side, the length of stay for courier tickets is usually a seven-day stopover.

Sometimes, but rarely, length of stays can last up to six months. At the end, you may need to be a courier on the return flight home. This will be difficult if you plan to do any shopping overseas.

Sorry, but you probably won't be going to an exotic island on your courier flights. That's because most of the items you will handle will go to the main business centers of the world.

It is possible to travel with a companion, but you need to be flexible with your scheduling. It's rare to have courier seats together on the same flight. However, you can time it so you could meet your companion within the same day.

Copyright 2007 by L Chan

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