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Air Courier Travel |
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 Air courier travel is a little known way to travel for free - or at extremely low cost. There is always a growing need for air couriers, meaning more opportunities for people to travel for nothing, or almost nothing. You may wonder how to be an air courier, or even what an air courier is. Courier firms, companies that recruite air couriers, deal with time-sensitive material, items that must be hand transported from one place to another, in the quickest time.
Some courier companies operate on purely domestic routes, in major regions and cities in the US, and often use road couriers or domestic airlines to minimize delays.
Many businesses prefer simply handing the package over to an air courier delivery service, rather than having a member of staff, accompany a package on a short flight. The convenience offered is why air couriers are constantly needed. Local air courier travel services involve few security hassles, few likely delays possible, and most items reach their destination in a couple of hours, or within a day.
When items are transported between countries it is more complex, mainly
due to rules and regulations enforced at Customs at airports on route.
Whether packages are classed as cargo or baggage is crucial to what happens to them. A big reason firms use couriers to accompany items abroad is that Cargo travels alone, usually on "cargo only" flights since the Twin Towers tragedy. This means that a cargo package is subject to many factors that can cause delays. It can take several days to pass through Customs to allow thorough checks of paperwork and package. Cargo must arrive several hours ahead of flight time meaning even more delays for sender and recipient, and there’s no priority for cargo, unlike people, to gain access to a particular flight.
Other delays can be caused if the sender’s package is bundled with many more items. This goes into huge storage containers which then wait too be filled full before travelling. More delays, sometimes long ones, are caused by many other factors. The problem continues at destination, where cargo can again take hours to be inspected and cleared for collection.
Items classed as baggage, specifically "personal baggage" arrive with the passenger, typically an hour or so before the flight, and generally pass
quickly through Customs at airports on route. Additionally, a passenger seat can be
reserved on a specific flight at a definite time. Now what might take days for cargo to
reach it’s destination can take hours with a courier. Courier travel is really a solution.
Typical items delivered by air couriers are letters, photographs, legal
papers, business proposals, contracts, computer disks, reports, product prototypes.
But it isn’t just big companies that need air couriers. Air couriers also bring urgent
deliveries overseas, such as perishable gifts,animals, children, medicines left behind by travellers, culinary delicacies for smart international restaurants, and other time-sensitive items that must reach their destinations safely, and on time! The courier is not usually required to physically collect or even accompany the package.
Typically an air courier comes to the airport of departure at a pre-appointed time,
where representatives of the courier company process the package through Customs
and hand over the free, or low cost ticket to the courier. At the destination airport company representatives process their package through Customs and give the air courier the return ticket, usually free. |
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