#1873 - Q&A: “Fly as an airline courier” ... is that a thing?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today’s caller has seen ads about becoming an independent airline courier. It sounds fun—but is this a viable business opportunity, a scam, or something else?
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:38.2 | Wouldn't it be cool to fly around the world as a messenger? |
| 0:41.5 | And not for a drug cartel, but for companies that needed materials delivered quickly? |
| 0:46.6 | This is not an ad, by the way. This is an introduction to a question from a listener. |
| 0:50.9 | They're wondering about the promise of being an airline career. |
| 0:54.4 | I think they've seen some ads or heard something about this idea of, as I said, |
| 0:59.3 | flying around the world as a messenger, delivering important documents or materials. |
| 1:03.6 | Perhaps in your checked luggage, again, all totally on the up and up. |
| 1:07.6 | This was something I saw ads for myself and wondered about a long time ago, |
| 1:12.4 | going back many, many years when I was first beginning to travel and thinking, |
| 1:16.8 | how can I travel for free? Or how can I get the money to travel? |
| 1:19.7 | Are there tips, strategies, tactics, tools, secrets, and such? |
| 1:24.7 | Of course, there are. This was one of them, at least for a time. |
| 1:28.8 | So today's caller is wondering, is this a viable business opportunity? |
| 1:33.9 | Is it a scam? Is it perhaps something else? |
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