I love to travel, but I rarely have the budget to go anywhere interesting, so I have thought about flying as an Air Courier sometime. I have heard that they will pay 40-80% of your airfare and all you have to do is give up your checked luggage space (I never check luggage- even when I went to London for a week, all I had was carry-ons). I guess you have to be pretty flexible about when you leave, and the very best deals are on last-minute flights, but I am usually very spontaneous and never really plan any large trips more than a week or two in advance. The only problem is that the only air courier websites I have found require membership to view available flights and membership is usually about $50. I don't want to spend that kind of money and then find out that the site is completely useless.

Does anybody have any experience or pointers?

 

This sounds very interesting, I wouldn't mind getting involved aswell. Hopefully someone has some advice or experience.

 

I work for a freight forwarder and I know that this used to be pretty popular. But now days basically every airline has a small package service set up to accomodate this where you can drop off a small package to their baggage dept at the airport and they will put it in with the baggage and it comes off with the baggage at the destination. So there are very few situations where this would be needed anymore...

 

That's what I imagined, and that is the reason I posted this thread before dumping $50 to join one of those "brokers." Thanks.

 

Or you could become a flight attendant and fly for free.

Sorry, no experience with air courier thing, but a friend of mine just paid half price with a wait-for-an-available-seat thing.