Gatwick Airport Taxi – Fixed Price from £85, Book Online 24/7

Taxi, Gatwick Express, Thameslink or app

The Gatwick Express takes about 30 minutes to Victoria and Thameslink runs to London Bridge and St Pancras; for one person with a cabin bag and a hotel near Victoria that is hard to beat. The train does not go to Kent, Essex, Surrey villages or the outer boroughs, and at 5am or 11pm the timetable thins out. A black cab from the rank is metered; apps can re-quote at busy arrival banks.

A pre-booked fixed fare is door to door, per car, and settled before you fly. For two or more people, a family with luggage, an early or late flight, or anywhere outside central London, it is usually the better value once the last leg is counted, and always the more predictable.

Gatwick airport taxi prices: fixed fares from both terminals

A Gatwick airport taxi with Rushxo is a fixed fare per car, agreed when you book and unchanged by traffic, the hour or how busy the M23 is. The driver meets you inside the arrivals hall of the North or South Terminal with a name board, your flight is tracked, and 60 minutes of waiting after landing is included. The tables are our published saloon fares from Gatwick; the same price applies to the airport, and a return booked together is 10% off.

Every fare includes the driver, fuel, the forecourt drop-off charge, the Congestion Charge and ULEZ where they apply, and meet and greet. Executive cars, 6-seat MPVs and V Class minibuses are quoted the same way, per vehicle rather than per person.

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North or South Terminal: where we meet you and the drop-off charge

Gatwick has two terminals about a mile apart, linked by a free shuttle that takes two to three minutes. British Airways, TUI, Emirates and part of the easyJet schedule use the North Terminal; most easyJet, Ryanair and Vueling flights use the South Terminal. Airlines occasionally switch, so it is on your booking and we confirm it with you the day before. Each terminal has its own arrivals hall, and that is where your driver waits.

Drop-off at both terminals is a barrierless forecourt charge of £10 for up to ten minutes, then £1 a minute to a 30-minute maximum (September 2026; the airport publishes changes on its own site). We include it in your fare. For pickups the driver uses the short-stay car park beside the terminal, walks over and waits inside arrivals, so nobody is standing on the forecourt with cases.

Heathrow to Gatwick taxi: the airport-to-airport transfer

Heathrow to Gatwick is the transfer we are asked about most, because there is no direct train and the coach takes a busy motorway at its own pace. By car it is about 45 miles around the M25, 60 to 90 minutes in normal traffic, and we run it as a fixed fare from £91 for a saloon: the driver meets you inside arrivals at Heathrow, loads the cases and drops you at the right Gatwick terminal door with the drop-off charge paid. The reverse direction is the same price. For a connection we ask for both flight numbers, track the inbound, and advise a pickup that leaves a sensible margin for the second check-in. See the Heathrow to Gatwick taxi page for the full route notes.

Gatwick’s second runway: what changes for transfers and when

Gatwick’s Northern Runway Project won its final court approval on 4 August 2026, ending the legal challenges to the £2.2 billion plan to move the existing standby runway 12 metres north so both can be used routinely. Dual-runway flying is expected by 2030, adding up to 100,000 flights a year, and it comes with the surface-access commitments the airport signed up to: a rebuilt South Terminal roundabout and Longbridge roundabout on the A23, and a target for more passengers to arrive by rail. For anyone booking a transfer the practical points are these. Between now and 2030 the works sit on the north side of the airfield and on the A23 approaches, so allow for lane restrictions around the South Terminal on the way in. From 2030 the airport handles more early and late flights, which is when the Gatwick Express and Thameslink are thinnest and a pre-booked car earns its keep. And the drop-off charge, currently £10 for 10 minutes on the forecourts then £1 a minute, with two hours free in the long-stay car park and a shuttle to the terminals, is likely to rise as the airport funds the works; it is included in our fixed fare either way. Gatwick is one of four projects reshaping journeys to the airports over the next decade; the others, and what they mean for your route, are on new transport developments around London.

Gatwick drop-off charges: what you pay, how to pay, and the free option

Gatwick charges every private car that uses the terminal forecourts at both North and South Terminal, and the charge is camera-enforced with no barrier, so people who did not know it existed find out by letter. Here is how it works in September 2026, checked against the airport’s own parking pages; the figures change most years, so check there before you travel.

How to pay the £10 drop-off charge

There is no barrier and no machine on the forecourt. Cameras read the number plate in and out, and you pay afterwards, online through the airport’s post-pay portal or by automated phone on 0330 174 4503, by midnight the day after your visit. Miss that deadline and the airport’s parking partner issues a £100 Parking Charge Notice, reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days. Blue Badge holders are exempt but must register with the airport before travelling, and anyone who drops off regularly can open an AutoPay account so it settles automatically.

How to drop off at Gatwick for free

Follow the signs for Long Stay rather than the terminal. The first two hours there are free, and a shuttle bus runs to the terminals around the clock; allow 15 to 25 extra minutes for the bus at each end. For an early flight with luggage, most people decide the £10 is worth it.

Picking up at Gatwick

The forecourt is drop-off only. For a pick-up, use the Short Stay car park at the terminal your passenger arrives at, or wait in Long Stay for free until the flight lands and then move. A pre-booked driver removes the calculation: we track the flight, wait in the car park, and meet your passenger in arrivals with a name board; the parking is in the fare.

Meet and greet, flight tracking and 60 minutes of free waiting

Give us the flight number and we monitor it from departure. Land early and the driver is already there; land late and the pickup moves with the flight at no cost. From touchdown you have 60 minutes of free waiting; if passport control or the baggage hall overruns, the driver waits and the fare does not change. You receive the driver’s name, photo and registration the day before and their direct mobile on the day, and our UK dispatch desk answers 020 8888 9988 24 hours a day. Our meet and greet page explains the process step by step.

Vehicles for Gatwick transfers

Child seats are available on request; larger parties travel in two vehicles or a 16-seater minibus.

How booking works

1. Get the fare: pickup, drop-off and terminal on the booking page give an instant fixed quote; or message +44 7466 237870 on WhatsApp, or call 020 8888 9988.
2. Confirm: pay online by card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay, or secure the car with a 30% deposit and settle the balance 24 hours before travel. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup.
3. The day before: the driver’s name, photo and registration arrive with the meeting point in arrivals.
4. On the day: the flight is tracked, the driver texts when in position, and a return booked together is 10% off.

Why book your Gatwick taxi with Rushxo

Rushxo journeys are operated by Get London Transfer Ltd, a TfL-licensed private hire operator (licence 11588), based in Dartford, Kent. Gatwick sits at the bottom of the M25 and M23, which makes it the natural airport for south-east London, Kent and Sussex, and those are our home roads: Bromley, Croydon, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Dartford and the Medway towns to Gatwick at a fixed fare, plus Brighton and the coast on the other side. We cover every London postcode, Kent and Essex 24 hours a day, and the 4am pickup costs what the 4pm one costs.

Drivers hold TfL licences and enhanced DBS checks, vehicles are licensed and insured, and the company carries £10m public liability cover. Read what customers say, or see our guides to early-morning Gatwick flights and early arrivals into London.

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