Hand-carried, never out of custody.
For the shipment that is small enough to carry and too important to check: a vetted courier takes custody at your door, flies with it, and hands it to a named person at the other end.
How it works.
One call. We route the fastest lift — scheduled airline, charter, or a blend — put a courier on it, and your shipment rides in the cabin under continuous custody. You get live status at every leg, then signed proof of delivery.
When OBC beats a charter.
Documents, AOG small parts, prototypes, media drives, regulatory filings. If it fits in a case and the deadline is measured in hours, an on-board courier is often the fastest and most economical lift in the network.
When a charter beats OBC.
Too heavy for a cabin seat, hazmat-restricted, or no workable schedule? Your dispatcher flips the same mission to a dedicated aircraft without a second briefing. One desk, both tools.
International, handled.
Customs pre-briefed, paperwork carried by hand, arrival met. Cross-border OBC is where continuous custody earns its keep.
What can an on-board courier carry?
How fast can a courier launch?
Is the shipment ever unattended?
Small shipment, huge stakes.
The AOG courier: a person, a part, an unbroken chain of custody.
A large share of our courier missions are aviation parts — avionics units, LRUs, documents and certifications — where the cost of a lost or delayed hand-off is a grounded aircraft. The courier collects from your stores or vendor, rides the next scheduled departure with the part never out of reach, clears customs in person on international lanes, and hands it to your named receiver with proof of delivery. When the part is too large to hand-carry, or no schedule makes the deadline, the same desk quotes emergency parts delivery by dedicated charter instead.
When does an OBC beat next-flight-out for an AOG part?
Can a courier carry aircraft parts internationally?
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