Airport work is the backbone of chauffeur travel, and it is also the part where the details differ most from place to place. The service is the same everywhere: a car held for you, a chauffeur who waits, and luggage that somebody else lifts. What changes is the geography of each site and the rules the airport itself imposes.
That variation is worth understanding before you book, because it affects where you will be met, how long the walk to the car is, and what appears on the quotation. None of it is complicated once explained, and none of it requires you to do anything except tell us your flight and terminal.
The airports we work at most
The London airports account for the largest share of our airport bookings, but a considerable amount of work runs through the regional airports too, either as a local transfer or as one end of a longer cross-country journey. These are the sites we are asked for week in, week out.
- Heathrow, across all its terminals, in both directions
- Gatwick North and South, and London City in the Docklands
- Stansted, Luton and Southend for the eastern approaches
- Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds Bradford and Liverpool
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness in Scotland
- Bristol, Southampton, Newcastle, Cardiff and Belfast
Smaller and regional airports
Beyond the familiar names there are dozens of smaller airports and airfields, and we arrange journeys to and from them regularly. Exeter, Norwich, Bournemouth, Doncaster, Teesside and the Channel Islands routes all come up, as do the private terminals at Farnborough, Biggin Hill, Oxford and elsewhere.
Two things change at the smaller sites. Arrivals halls are compact, so meeting is simpler and the walk to the car is shorter. Against that, the surrounding road network is usually rural, which means the final approach takes longer than the mileage implies and needs more margin at the start of a journey rather than less.
What differs from one airport to another
Each airport decides where private cars may stop, how long they may wait, whether a chauffeur can come into the terminal, and what it charges for access. Those rules change from time to time and they are not ours to bend. Where an airport charge applies to your journey it is included in the written quotation rather than turning up later as a surprise.
Meeting points vary in the same way. At some terminals the chauffeur stands directly beyond the arrivals doors with a name board; at others there is a designated meeting area a short walk away. We tell you which applies to your specific terminal when the booking is confirmed, so you know exactly what to look for as you come through.
