August 2007 Airline Courier: A Money
Saving Job
Travelers who can afford to lay over an extra day or
two to catch that $99 flight across the ocean can
save a lot of money as Couriers.
Traveling with a single bag is essential for these
flights because you give up your luggage allowance
to the company for which you act as a courier agent.
It's all legal and extremely inexpensive.
Air travel couriers are people who carry shipping
documents on a flight for a courier company in
exchange for a discounted ticket.
These companies need couriers because it's often
faster and cheaper to ship freight as luggage than
as air cargo, or time sensitive materials such as
business documents or medicines are being sent.
Since these companies need your baggage allowance
for these materials, you're not allowed to check
through any of your personal luggage. You must
travel with only the airline's allotted amount of
carry-on baggage.
Courier tickets are regular round-trip coach
tickets. They are almost always non-refundable and
nontransferable, so if there's any chance your plans
will change, these aren't the right tickets for you.
It depends on the courier company whether or not you
can keep the frequent flier mileage earned. The
current trend is toward not allowing you to do so.
Courier tickets vary in length of stay, but usually
allow for at least a seven day stopover.
On rare occasions they may be open-ended up to six
months. It's common for the courier company to
require you to be a courier on your return flight
too, so this travel plan isn't for those wanting to
do a lot of foreign shopping.
Courier routes are limited to the world's main
business centers because of the type of supplies
being shipped. You won't find these tickets for any
exotic islands.
For those traveling with a spouse or partner, it's
usually possible to arrange courier flights within a
day of each other to your destination, but not often
will you find courier seats on the same flight.
The more flexible both of your schedules are, the
better the chance you'll both arrive at your
destination on the same day.
Thank you,
Terry Hudson
www.fivedaytrips.com
6111 Estate Nazareth
St. Thomas, VI 00802
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