Just outside London in Kent, Dartford is a clear run to Gatwick and close to London City across the river. Book ahead, fix the fare, and your driver tracks your flight on the return.
Fixed-fare Dartford transfers with flight tracking, meet & greet and 24/7 cover — your price confirmed before you book.
Fixed fares, professional drivers and 24/7 cover across London and beyond.
For minicabs in Dartford, Airport Move offers a fixed fare agreed before you travel, a licensed local driver, and cover 24 hours a day for both local trips and airport runs.
Just outside London in Kent, Dartford is a clear run to Gatwick and close to London City across the river. Book ahead, fix the fare, and your driver tracks your flight on the return.
Dartford connects to every London airport, cruise port and station through us, with the vehicle sized to suit you and flight tracking built into every airport pickup.
Booking takes about two minutes and your fare is fixed from the start. Here is how a journey works, step by step.
Enter your pickup and drop-off for your Dartford journey on our booking page, or call us. You get an instant, fixed price — no meters and no surge pricing.
Choose a saloon, estate, MPV or 8-seater, add child seats or meet and greet, and confirm in under a minute. We send your driver's name, number and car before pickup.
On airport journeys we track your flight by number and adjust the pickup to your real landing time. Your driver can wait in arrivals with a name board and help with your luggage.
Your driver takes you directly to your destination and you pay online, by card in the car, or on account — always at the fixed fare you were quoted.
One fixed fare, quoted before you book, covers the whole journey. Here is what comes as standard.
Driver details sent before pickup.
No meters and no surge pricing.
Child seats fitted free on request.
Local trips and airport runs from Dartford, always at a fixed fare.
Wherever you are in Dartford, we come to you.
Your fare is settled before the journey starts.
Every driver is licensed and professionally presented.
Reaching all London airports and cruise ports.
Flight tracking on airport journeys.
Booking and travel around the clock.
Dartford sits just outside south-east London in Kent, by the Thames crossing that bears its name. Gatwick is a run to the south-west and London City across the river. We run fixed-fare door-to-door transfers from Dartford, 24 hours a day, with flight tracking on arrivals.
By road distance, London City is usually the shortest run from Dartford, though the fastest journey on the day depends on traffic and which motorway corridor you take — a numerically closer airport can still be the slower option if it means crossing London rather than joining a direct route. Here is roughly how each of the six compares, in normal traffic:
Of all the areas we cover, Dartford ranks 23rd closest to London City out of 64 by road distance — a genuine relative marker, not just a raw mileage figure.
London City — about 11 miles (25–45 min by road); Dartford lies to the east-south-east of it.
Southend — about 29 miles (45–75 min by road); Dartford lies to the west-south-west of it.
Gatwick — about 30 miles (40–65 min by road); Dartford lies to the north-east of it.
Heathrow — about 35 miles (45–70 min by road); Dartford lies to the east of it.
Stansted — about 35 miles (45–75 min by road); Dartford lies to the south of it.
Luton — about 45 miles (60–95 min by road); Dartford lies to the south-east of it.
Unlike a black cab, a minicab cannot legally pick up a passenger who simply flags it down — every trip has to be arranged beforehand, with the driver and the car both carrying their own private hire licence. Booking with Airport Move follows that rule to the letter: the fare and the time are fixed before you travel, and a licensed driver turns up at the agreed moment rather than being hailed in passing. In Dartford specifically, London City is the closest of the six by road — roughly 11 miles away, with Dartford lying to the east-south-east of it — which is often why local minicab bookings here lean that way, though a fixed-fare car from Dartford reaches every London airport just as reliably.
Traffic around Dartford builds fastest on weekday mornings and early evenings, when commuters share the main approach roads with airport and local traffic. A journey before 8am or after 5pm on a weekday is when it is worth allowing extra time; outside those windows, and at weekends, the roads are usually calmer. Either way, our drivers build a buffer into every pickup so a slow patch of traffic does not turn into a rushed one.
On the day, your driver confirms the pickup point in advance so there is no last-minute searching, and for airport legs the flight is tracked so the car is ready whether you land early or late. Allow the usual airport routine either side of the drive itself: security and check-in on the way out, and passport control or baggage reclaim on the way in, both of which our free waiting allowance already covers.
Mentioning your group size and luggage at booking, rather than on the day, means we bring the right car from the start — a saloon for four passengers and two large cases, or an estate, MPV or 8-seater when there is more to carry. Expect more demand for this kind of journey around school holidays and summer, so a little lead time helps when it comes to booking the right vehicle.
Most Dartford bookings with us start as an airport transfer, but the same fixed-fare minicab and driver cover plenty more of your travel:
A regular commute or the school run, billed to a business or family account.
A wedding, night out or event transfer, planned to your schedule.
A car kept at your disposal with hourly hire.
A connection on to a cruise port or hotel.
Something sent rather than someone carried, with courier delivery.
Step-free travel in one of our wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
There is no meter for a Dartford minicab: the fare is calculated from your exact address and destination and shown before you book. Get it instantly online or by phone.
Yes, all six London airports are reachable from Dartford at a fixed price, and we track your flight on every arrival at no extra cost.
Yes. We collect from any address in Dartford — homes, hotels and offices. Provide the full address and postcode when booking so the driver finds you easily.
Yes. We do not use meters or surge pricing. The price you are quoted for your Dartford journey is the price you pay, whatever the traffic or time of day.
Yes — Dartford is covered 24/7, so an early flight or a late landing makes no difference to availability or price.
Larger Dartford groups are covered by an MPV, an 8-seater, or several vehicles booked as one job at a single agreed price.
Yes. Add the number and type of infant, child or booster seats when you book and we will fit them before pickup, at no extra charge.
Of course — reserve both legs together to lock in two fixed fares, timed around your flight or plans on the day.
The earlier you book, the more certain your vehicle and fare, but we do take same-day and last-minute requests around the clock, availability allowing.
Pay securely online when you book, by card in the car, or on an account for regular travel. The fixed fare is the same whichever way you pay.
This page is written and reviewed by the Airport Move operations team, a London-licensed private-hire operator based at 450 Bath Rd, near Heathrow. We arrange fixed-fare airport, station, cruise-port and door-to-door transfers across London and the UK every day, and keep our route, fare and timing guidance current. Questions about your Dartford transfer? Call +44 (0) 158 282 4631 or email booking@airportmove.co.uk.
Last updated: 17 August 2026