What exactly is a courier flight?
A courier flight is a one where you travel for minimal cost because a company wants documents, bio-medical materials, or other items to travel as passenger luggage instead of airfreight. You are usually only allowed carry-on luggage for your personal use. The ticket usually has a specific return time. You need to be over 21 years of age, have a valid passport, and be flexible to use the system. Yes, those fabled fares of under two hundred dollars from the USA to Europe really do exist So, how do you get access to courier flights? Like the punch line of a bad joke—-carefully, very carefully. The optimal way to get a courier flight is to know someone at a company that needs couriers. The pre-requisite for that bit of good fortune is the approximate amount of good karma required to win most lotteries. Failing that it seems that the best thing to do is join a reputable organization that functions as a clearing house for courier flights http://www.courier.org/ is the web-site for the Inte