Airport transfers from Manchester

An airport transfer is a pre-booked car from your door to the terminal, or from the terminal back home. You book online, choose your car and see a fixed price before you pay. We email a confirmation straight away and send the driver’s details before the trip. Online bookings need at least 8 hours’ notice; for anything sooner, call 0161 660 4006.

Departures

The drive is usually the easy part. What matters is when your airline’s bag drop closes. Many airlines suggest arriving about two hours before a short-haul flight and three hours before a long-haul one, but check yours. We allow extra for rush hour, school holiday mornings and planned roadworks. At Manchester Airport the driver drops you at Terminal 2 or Terminal 3; put your flight number in the booking and we check which.

Landing is not the same as being ready, so we plan for passport control and the bags.

Arrivals

We follow your flight, so you don’t need to call from the plane. Passport control and baggage reclaim can take twenty minutes on a quiet night and well over an hour on a busy one. Cars can’t wait at the kerb outside arrivals at most UK airports, so with a standard pickup the driver waits nearby and tells you where to walk. With meet & greet they wait in the hall with a name board.

Luggage and cars

Allow one large case and one small bag per passenger, and count pushchairs, golf bags, skis and car seats too. The booking form only shows cars that fit. Child and booster seats are free. Compare every vehicle on our fleet page.

Further afield

From the west of our area, Liverpool John Lennon can be as close as Manchester, and from Rochdale, Oldham and West Yorkshire Leeds Bradford is an option. We also run to East Midlands, Gatwick and Stansted. If your flight home is cancelled or diverted, call us and we will rearrange the pickup.