Travel Cheap by Being an Air Courier

Air couriers enjoy cheaper airfares. They can fly across the ocean for only $99 but are willing to handle a lay over that may last an extra 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.

The duty of a courier is to carry shipping documents for the company hiring them and in return, airfare is significantly cheaper.

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.

You can only bring carry on luggage as a courier. Your luggage allowance will be used by the courier company to ship materials overseas. That's why you had to give up your allowance.

Courier tickets are regular round-trip coach tickets that are also non-refundable and non-transferable. So make sure you can make the flight.

You probably won't be able to keep the frequent flier mileage you will accumulate. That depends on the courier company. Length of stays on courier tickets can be up to seven days.

Occasionally but rarely, stays can go on for up to half a year. You could be asked to be a courier on your return flight back home. Because you gave up your luggage allowance, it may be hard to bring back any shopping you had planned to do.

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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