For airline, cruise, ship & rig crew
Crew who live more nights in hotels and cabins than at home need a different kind of mobile plan. CocoRoam is built for layovers, rotations, and contracts — top up when you need it, no employer surprise bills, multi-country coverage on a single eSIM.
Built for the way crew actually travel
Long-haul cabin and flight-deck crew who land in a new country every 36 hours. Layovers in 4+ countries a week, often with no work Wi-Fi until the hotel.
On contract for 6–9 months, port-hopping every other day, ship Wi-Fi rationed or paywalled. Need data the moment you're alongside.
Rotation schedules — 4-on / 4-off, 6-on / 3-off — between rig and home country. Need reliable data on transit days through Aberdeen, Houston, Dubai.
Short, intense deployments — film shoots, expedition support, NGO emergency response — where bandwidth matters more than budget.
Why crew pick us
No subscriptions, no auto-renew. Top up when you're back on rotation. Plans run out cleanly — never a surprise charge while you're at sea or on a long-haul leg.
Bought on your own card, on your own phone. No employer roaming bills, no work IT department flagging your tethering. What you do with the data is your business.
Regional eSIMs cover whole rotation routes — UK + Europe, Gulf + Asia, Caribbean + Americas — on a single data pool. No swapping profiles at every border.
QR install in under two minutes from the CocoRoam dashboard. Works with airport / ship / rig Wi-Fi to download — once installed, runs purely on cellular.
Plans crew buy most
150+ countries on one plan — for round-the-world rosters and unpredictable rotations.
See plans30+ countries on one data pool — covers most long-haul layover hubs in Europe.
See plansTokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong — multi-country plan for Asian rotations.
See plansDubai, Doha, Riyadh — Gulf transit hubs and offshore rotation transit days.
See plansCrew questions, straight answers
Some can. The eSIM is bought on your card and sent to the email you registered with, and we send a standard receipt at checkout that most expense systems accept. Crew on per-diems usually find this is the cleanest path — your data stays yours, your employer pays the receipt. Check with your employer's policy first.
No — the plan runs until either the data is used or the validity expires. If you have unused data when your rotation ends, that's still yours to use until expiry. When you go back on rotation, top up the same eSIM (no need to re-install) or buy a fresh plan.
Tethering is supported on the vast majority of CocoRoam plans (it's listed on every plan page). Coverage in crew quarters depends on the local carrier signal at that specific location — at sea you'll only have signal alongside or close to shore, on rigs only when within range of land-based towers.
We connect to the same local carriers locals use — full 4G/5G where available. Remote areas (rural Africa, far Pacific, deep Arctic) will have limited signal regardless of provider. For rotation hubs (Dubai, Singapore, Houston, Aberdeen, etc.) coverage is excellent.
If your work phone is eSIM-capable and not locked down by your employer's MDM (mobile device management), yes. Many crew run the eSIM on their personal phone alongside their work phone — that way the work phone stays on the carrier your employer expects.
Heavy users (video calls home, streaming, lots of social) should plan for 10–20 GB per month. Light users (messaging, maps, light browsing) can manage on 3–5 GB. The Data Calculator gives a per-app breakdown if you want a sharper estimate.