Ilford and Woodford pickups suit a pre-booked car, with Stansted up the M11 and City close by. We confirm the price from your door and bring a larger vehicle when there is more luggage than a saloon will take.
For minicabs in Redbridge, 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.
Ilford and Woodford pickups suit a pre-booked car, with Stansted up the M11 and City close by. We confirm the price from your door and bring a larger vehicle when there is more luggage than a saloon will take.
Redbridge 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 Redbridge 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.
Redbridge to anywhere local, or on to the airport — one fixed fare either way.
Pickups from any Redbridge address.
The price is fixed before you travel.
Every driver is licensed and professionally presented.
Every airport and cruise port in reach from here.
Every airport pickup is flight-tracked.
24/7 booking and travel.
Redbridge is a north-east London borough taking in Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford on the Essex border. Its position near the M11 and A12 makes Stansted and London City easy to reach. We provide fixed-fare door-to-door airport transfers from Redbridge, day and night.
By road distance, London City is usually the shortest run from Redbridge, 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, Redbridge ranks 7th closest to London City out of 64 by road distance — a genuine relative marker, not just a raw mileage figure.
London City — about 7 miles (15–25 min by road); Redbridge lies to the north of it.
Heathrow — about 30 miles (45–75 min by road); Redbridge lies to the east-north-east of it.
Stansted — about 30 miles (50–75 min by road); Redbridge lies to the south-south-west of it.
Luton — about 35 miles (40–65 min by road); Redbridge lies to the south-east of it.
Southend — about 35 miles (45–65 min by road); Redbridge lies to the west of it.
Gatwick — about 40 miles (45–75 min by road); Redbridge lies to the north-north-east of it.
The legal line between a minicab and a black cab comes down to booking: a minicab must be arranged ahead of time rather than hailed, and every driver and vehicle needs its own private hire licence to operate. With Airport Move that means the price and the pickup time are settled before you set off, and your licensed driver arrives precisely as agreed, not picked up off the street. In Redbridge specifically, London City is the closest of the six by road — roughly 7 miles away, with Redbridge lying to the north of it — which is often why local minicab bookings here lean that way, though a fixed-fare car from Redbridge reaches every London airport just as reliably.
Traffic around Redbridge 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.
Sort out group size and luggage when you book, not on the day: four passengers and two large cases fit a saloon well, while an estate, MPV or 8-seater handles more — extra suitcases, pushchairs or sports bags included. This kind of journey sees more demand over school holidays and summer, so booking with some notice makes it easier to get the vehicle sized correctly.
Most Redbridge 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 Redbridge minicab: the fare is calculated from your exact address and destination and shown before you book. Get it instantly online or by phone.
Yes. We run fixed-fare transfers from Redbridge to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City and Southend, with free flight tracking on arrivals.
Yes, any address in Redbridge is covered, whether a house, hotel or workplace. Add the postcode when you book so the driver locates you first time.
It is fixed from the moment you book. No meter runs and no surge applies to your Redbridge journey, whatever happens on the road.
Yes, day and night, seven days a week, including early or late airport runs from Redbridge, all at the same fixed price.
Larger Redbridge groups are covered by an MPV, an 8-seater, or several vehicles booked as one job at a single agreed price.
We do, at no additional cost. Add infant, child or booster seats to your booking and they will be fitted before your driver arrives.
Of course — reserve both legs together to lock in two fixed fares, timed around your flight or plans on the day.
An earlier booking guarantees the exact vehicle and fare you want, though same-day Redbridge requests are accepted around the clock where availability allows.
Choose to pay securely online, by card with the driver, or on account for regular Redbridge trips — the fare does not change either way.
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 Redbridge transfer? Call +44 (0) 158 282 4631 or email booking@airportmove.co.uk.
Last updated: 17 August 2026