Cheap Travel - Become A Courier & Get The Best Airfares

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.

The duty of a courier is to carry shipping documents for the company hiring them and in return, airfare is significantly cheaper.

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.

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.

As a courier, you'll get round trip tickets on coach. Unfortunately, these tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. So be sure you know in advance you can make your scheduled flight.

Most likely, you will not keep any frequent flier mileage earned. It depends on the policy of the courier company. On the bright side, the length of stay for courier tickets is usually a seven-day stopover.

Sometimes, but rarely, length of stays can last up to six months. At the end, you may need to be a courier on the return flight home. This will be difficult if you plan to do any shopping overseas.

You probably won't be sent to some exotic island. You'll probably go to main business centers of the world because of the kinds of materials you will handle.

It is possible to travel with a companion, but you need to be flexible with your scheduling. It's rare to have courier seats together on the same flight. However, you can time it so you could meet your companion within the same day.

Copyright 2007 by L Chan