Travel Cheap by Being an Air Courier

You can save much money on airfare by becoming a courier. Couriers can fly overseas for as little as $99 and the only catch is they may experience a lay over of one or two days.

If you become a courier, the company hiring you expects you to bring only one carry-on for your flight and to surrender your baggage allowance to them.

As an air travel courier, you carry shipping documents on flights for a courier company in exchange for discount tickets.

The reason why companies use couriers to move freight or important time-sensitive business documents or medicines is because it is faster and less expensive to ship it as luggage rather than as air cargo.

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.

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.

Rarely is it open ended up to six months. However, you may have to be a courier on the return flight. This may interfere with any plans for overseas shopping.

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's almost impossible to have two courier seats on the same flight. But you can still meet up with your companion if you are willing to be flexible with your schedule. You can probably meet each other at your destination within a day of your flight.

Copyright 2007 by L Chan

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