Airport 01
Terminals 1 to 8 and Tom Bradley. Flight tracked from wheels-down, thirty minutes of complimentary wait on every arrival, and a chauffeur who is on airport property before you land. Departures from $125 on a set-price route, hourly from $85.
01 — The airport
LAX is not one building, it is nine arranged around a horseshoe with an upper level for departures and a lower one for arrivals. Almost every bad airport pickup in this city comes from the same two mistakes: a driver on the wrong level, or a driver at the wrong terminal because nobody checked which one the airline actually uses this month. Airlines move. We check the day before, not on the way.
Arrivals are lower level. Terminals 1, 2 and 3 on the north side; 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 on the south; Tom Bradley in the middle for most international departures and many international arrivals. Your chauffeur waits in the airport's cell lot until you have your bags, then pulls to the kerb outside your door — usually two or three minutes.
Departures are upper level. He drops you at the kerb by your airline's check-in doors, takes the cases out and puts them on the pavement or on a trolley. No walk from a distant garage with a week's luggage.
Private aviation is a different airport. If you are flying private, Van Nuys is usually the right field and the experience is not comparable — see Van Nuys transfers.
Also serving Burbank, Long Beach, John Wayne and Ontario on request. Ask dispatch and the figure comes back in writing.
02 — Arrivals
Four things, none of which require anything from you beyond a text message.
Dispatch watches your flight from the moment it leaves. Land forty minutes early and the chauffeur is already there; sit on a taxiway for an hour and he is still there. Nobody needs to be telephoned from the aircraft door.
The complimentary wait on an LAX arrival is timed from actual wheels-down, not from the time printed on your ticket. That distinction is the whole difference between a wait allowance that means something and one that does not.
Text when you have your bags and the car is at the arrivals kerb in two or three minutes. Or ask for meet-and-greet: the chauffeur parks, walks in, waits at baggage claim with a name board and carries the cases out.
(323) 799-3190 reaches the dispatch desk at any hour, including holidays. A diversion to Ontario, a bag that never arrived, a party that split across two flights — one call and the cars move.
Overnight and holiday arrivals are met exactly the same way, at exactly the same price. There is no late-hour premium.
03 — Departures
| Starting from | Domestic departure | International |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Monica, Culver City, Playa | 2 hours 30 minutes | 3 hours |
| Beverly Hills, Century City, West Hollywood | 2 hours 45 minutes | 3 hours 15 minutes |
| Hollywood, Downtown, Pasadena | 2 hours 45 minutes | 3 hours 15 minutes |
| Malibu, Van Nuys, the Valley | 3 hours | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Orange County | 3 hours | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| San Diego | 4 hours | 4 hours 30 minutes |
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Add thirty minutes for anything leaving between three and seven in the afternoon, and for holiday weekends. Tell us the flight and dispatch will set the pickup against it, then send it to you in writing so there is nothing to work out on the morning.
If a requested pickup time looks too tight for the corridor and the hour, we will say so while it can still be changed. That conversation is part of the job, not an upsell.
04 — Set prices
One figure for the car, agreed in writing before the booking is accepted. Traffic, the hour and the date do not change it.
| Route | From | Typical drive |
|---|---|---|
| Beverly Hills to LAX | $125 | 35–70 min |
| LAX to Beverly Hills | $125 | 35–70 min |
| Santa Monica to LAX | $125 | 25–55 min |
| Hollywood to LAX | $125 | 40–75 min |
| Malibu to LAX | $150 | 50–90 min |
| Newport Beach to LAX | $150 | 55–100 min |
| Irvine to LAX | $150 | 55–100 min |
| LAX to Orange County | $150 | 50–95 min |
| LAX to Disneyland | $150 | 45–85 min |
| LAX to San Diego | $525 | 2h 15m–3h 30m |
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Prices are per car, not per passenger, and are quoted before tolls, airport parking and gratuity. Anywhere not on the list is quoted individually — hourly work starts from $85. See all set-price routes.
Terminal 7 at eleven at night, bag delayed at the carousel for forty minutes. I texted the number and got back the chauffeur's name and where he was parked, then a message when he moved to the kerb.
Nobody made me feel like the meter was running while I stood there.
05 — The cars
Decided by luggage more often than by passenger count. Tell us the cases and we will name the class.
One to three passengers with two large cases. The quietest car in the fleet and the one we send unless the luggage argues otherwise.
Up to six passengers and six large cases with the third row still up. The default for families and for anyone flying long-haul with real luggage.
Seven to fourteen passengers with a rear luggage bay. One vehicle instead of two cars, which on an airport run is worth more than it sounds.
Child seats of every size are fitted free of charge — send the ages with the booking. The Yukon Denali, Suburban and BMW X5 complete the six classes on the fleet page.
06 — Pricing, in the open
Everything that can change an LAX total, and everything that cannot.
07 — Questions
At the arrivals kerb on the lower level, outside the door your airline uses, once you text that you have your bags. He waits in the airport's cell lot beforehand, so the two or three minutes it takes him to reach you are the only wait involved. Ask for meet-and-greet instead and he will be inside at baggage claim with a name board.
Thirty minutes, timed from the moment the aircraft actually lands rather than from your scheduled arrival. Dispatch tracks the flight, so a delay of two hours costs you nothing and requires no phone call from you.
No. There is no surge, no peak multiplier and no late-hour premium on any RG Black Limo booking. A set-price route is the same figure at 3am on Christmas Day as it is at midday on a Tuesday.
Call (323) 799-3190 and the car is redirected. Dispatch is staffed around the clock and we operate to Burbank, Long Beach, John Wayne and Ontario, so a diversion is a change of destination rather than a cancellation. Any difference in the fare is agreed with you before the car moves.
Yes, and often better with one vehicle than several. Send all the flight numbers; dispatch will either hold one car for the group or send separate vehicles timed to each landing, whichever you prefer. See group transportation for larger parties.
08 — Reserve
You will have the figure, the meet arrangement and the chauffeur's name back in writing before you fly. Dispatch answers every hour of the day, including holidays and overnight arrivals.
(323) 799-3190Terminals 1 to 8 and Tom Bradley · Burbank, Long Beach, John Wayne and Ontario on request