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.
Companies that hire you as their courier expect you to give up your luggage allowance and travel only with a single bag or carry-on.
Couriers receive discount airline tickets when they work for a company that has hired them to carry shipping documents on their flights.
These companies use couriers because it is quicker and less expensive to ship freight as luggage rather than air cargo. Couriers may also carry time-sensitive items such as 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 may accumulate frequent flier mileage but you may not keep it. That is set by the company that hired you. Stopovers can be seven days with courier tickets.
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.
Don't expect travel to exotic islands. Couriers mainly travel to main business centers of the world because of the types of items they ship.
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
By: L Chan