Airport Chauffeur Service in Los Angeles: LAX, Burbank and Van Nuys

LAX — met at arrivals, then the four-hour block

Your driver is at the arrivals level of the terminal you name — Tom Bradley for the international flights, or whichever terminal your airline uses — with your name on a card and the flight number on their phone. The car was staged against the landing, not the time on the booking. The bags go into the boot at the kerb, and nobody in the party rides anything to a lot.

A driven LAX arrival is booked as the four-hour block, and it is one figure with two lines: the driver $400 for the block, the car at its daily rate. In the black BMW 7 Series that is $630 — driver $400, car $230. In the Range Rover Sport, $686 — driver $400, car $286. The block is what makes an airport pickup worth doing in a car like this: it covers the drive to the hotel, the waiting while you check in, the first meeting or the first dinner, and the drive back — the same driver, the same car, the waiting inside the block and the fuel included.

• Beverly Hills — about 21 minutes from LAX without traffic.
• Santa Monica — about 15 minutes from LAX without traffic.
• Downtown — about 24 minutes from LAX without traffic.
• West Hollywood — about 23 minutes from LAX without traffic.

Would rather drive? The car can be at LAX for you instead of the driver: $75 each way to the airport parking structure, where you collect it off the airport shuttle, or $150 each way to the terminal, with somebody standing beside it at arrivals and the cases going straight into the boot. The LAX rental page has the cars and the delivery page has the mechanics.

Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) car service — an executive car at the terminal door

Yes: at Burbank the driver stands at the terminal door with your name and a black BMW 7 Series staged to your flight — $630 for the four-hour arrival block. Burbank is one compact terminal building, gates A and B, and behaves like one: baggage claim is a few steps from the kerb, and the driver is at the door rather than somewhere in a structure. The car is staged against the flight, so an early landing finds the driver already there and a late one finds them still there.

The block from Burbank is priced the same way as LAX. In the BMW 7 Series it is $630, in the Range Rover Sport $686 — each the driver $400 plus the car at its daily rate. It covers Burbank to Pasadena and the evening after it, or the studio lots and the hotel, or a day of meetings that ends at the terminal again. The lots — Burbank’s own, and Universal City over the hill — are closer than anything in the table.

Beverly Hills is the run that moves: about 27 minutes without traffic, 40–50 in the rush over the hill. The figure does not move with the minutes — the block is the block.

With the keys instead, the same car is delivered to the Burbank kerb for $125 each way, about twenty miles from our lot; the Burbank rental page has it.

Van Nuys (VNY) — private aviation

Van Nuys is FBOs rather than terminals, and each FBO decides where a ground vehicle stands — at the lounge door, or under the canopy on the ramp side. Give us the tail number and the FBO, and the driver is where the FBO says, with the car, when the aircraft blocks in. A landing that moves by an hour moves the car with it.

The block from Van Nuys is the same four hours — $630 in the 7 Series, and the arrival that should look like one is the Rolls-Royce Cullinan or the Maybach GLS 600, each at its own daily rate on the cards below. A party travels as one booking: the principal in the Cullinan, everyone else and the luggage in the Sprinter, one invoice.

• Beverly Hills — about 25 minutes from Van Nuys without traffic.
• Westwood — about 20 minutes from Van Nuys without traffic.

John Wayne (SNA) and Long Beach (LGB)

For a stay in Orange County — Newport Beach, Irvine, Laguna — an arrival at John Wayne or Long Beach is arranged on request: tell us the flight and the hotel, and the car and the driver are staged the same way, for the same block. The runs are on the Orange County chauffeur page.

What every airport pickup includes

• A named car. The 7 Series, the Range Rover Sport, the Cullinan — the car in the quote is the car at the kerb, not a class with “or similar” after it.
• The driver at arrivals with your name. At the arrivals level of your LAX terminal, at the Burbank terminal door, at the FBO at Van Nuys — inside, with a card, not a text saying “pull up to the kerb”.
• Staged to the flight. Give us the flight number when you book and the car is positioned against the landing. Early, late, or held on the ground for an hour: the driver moves with it.
• Two lines you can read. The driver from $100 an hour on a four-hour minimum; the car at its own daily rate. The driver’s line ends with the block; the car stays with you for the day at its daily rate, and the keys are yours if you want them, on the same booking. You see what is being paid for, and the whole figure is in writing before anything is committed.
• The waiting, and the fuel. The block starts when you are in the car; the driver is at arrivals before the landing. Inside the block the driver waits wherever you are — the hotel lobby, the first meeting, the dinner that runs long — and the fuel is ours.
• Child seats fitted on request. Tell us the ages when you book and the seats are in the car before it leaves for the airport.
• A person on the phone. +1 (424) 303-6496 — two hours’ notice on most days, and the same people who stage the car answer the call.
• The standing behind it. 5.0 from 67 Google reviews, on a profile you can open and read.

The airports, from the airports: ground transportation at Los Angeles International, from the airport, ground transport at Hollywood Burbank, Van Nuys Airport, ground transport at John Wayne; and the TSA’s travel pages for what changes at the checkpoint.

If the flight is late, early, or lands at midnight

The car is staged to the landing, not to the booking. The driver has the flight number and watches it the way you do, so a ground hold in the departure city moves the pickup by itself, and an early landing finds them already at arrivals, because early is the direction we stage for. A delay costs you nothing: the driver moves with the flight and the block is still the block once you are in the car.

Eleven at night, midnight, the first flight in from the east coast — each is an ordinary pickup. The driver is at arrivals with the name at whatever hour the board says, and the hotel is the first stop of the block rather than the end of the job. If somebody in the party needs a slower walk, a wheelchair from the airline to baggage claim, or a call to a daughter in another time zone once they are in the car, write it in the notes when you book: a line there is worth more than anything you can add to the quote, and the driver has it before the flight lands.

Two ways to leave the airport

Driven for the block, or the keys at the terminal — the same company, the same car, the same invoice. A rideshare sends whoever is nearest, in whatever they drive, at whatever the surge says. A black-car service sends a chauffeur and whatever black SUV is free and leaves you at the kerb. We send a chauffeur and the car you chose, and the car stays — or we hand you the keys at the terminal, which is a thing only a car rental can do.

A booking can be one on arrival and the other for the week: the 7 Series meets the Monday-night flight with a driver, and from Tuesday it is yours with the keys at its daily rate, on the same booking. The whole chauffeur service is on the Los Angeles chauffeur page, the hourly lines are on the chauffeur rates page, the keys at the terminal are on the delivery page, and a company account — the visiting client, the executives on one bill — is on the corporate page.