From a Canary Wharf office to London City in minutes, or home to Whitechapel after a long-haul arrival, we keep it simple: one agreed price, a driver who tracks your flight, and a car sized to your bags.
Fixed-fare Tower Hamlets 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.
Airport Move provides fixed-fare minicabs and airport transfers in Tower Hamlets, 24 hours a day. Book a local journey across London or a run to any airport, with a licensed driver, the right vehicle and a price agreed before you travel.
From a Canary Wharf office to London City in minutes, or home to Whitechapel after a long-haul arrival, we keep it simple: one agreed price, a driver who tracks your flight, and a car sized to your bags.
From Tower Hamlets we cover all London airports, cruise ports, stations and point-to-point journeys. Our drivers know the area and plan around the traffic, and for airport pickups we track your flight so the timing always works.
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 Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets, always at a fixed fare.
Collected from any address in Tower Hamlets.
One agreed fare, set before booking.
Vetted, licensed drivers on every job.
Reaching all London airports and cruise ports.
Flight tracking on airport journeys.
Round-the-clock booking and travel.
Tower Hamlets covers a striking stretch of east London, from the towers of Canary Wharf to historic Whitechapel and the Tower of London. Canary Wharf travel often means corporate accounts and London City Airport runs, which is right on the doorstep. We quote a fixed fare and can provide executive cars for business journeys.
By road distance, London City is usually the shortest run from Tower Hamlets, 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, Tower Hamlets ranks 2nd closest to London City out of 64 by road distance — a genuine relative marker, not just a raw mileage figure.
London City — about 3 miles (15–25 min by road); Tower Hamlets lies to the west of it.
Heathrow — about 25 miles (40–65 min by road); Tower Hamlets lies to the east of it.
Gatwick — about 30 miles (40–60 min by road); Tower Hamlets lies to the north-north-east of it.
Stansted — about 35 miles (45–65 min by road); Tower Hamlets lies to the south-south-west of it.
Luton — about 35 miles (45–70 min by road); Tower Hamlets lies to the south-south-east of it.
Southend — about 35 miles (45–75 min by road); Tower Hamlets lies to the west of it.
One rule marks a minicab out from a black cab: you cannot wave one down. Every journey is pre-arranged, and the driver and vehicle both require a separate private hire licence to work legally. Booking through Airport Move reflects exactly that — your fare and pickup time are confirmed in advance, and a licensed driver meets you at the time agreed, never hailed on the road. In Tower Hamlets specifically, London City is the closest of the six by road — roughly 3 miles away, with Tower Hamlets lying to the west of it — which is often why local minicab bookings here lean that way, though a fixed-fare car from Tower Hamlets reaches every London airport just as reliably.
the main approach roads are at their busiest on weekday mornings and early evenings around Tower Hamlets, as commuter traffic overlaps with airport and local trips. Early or late weekday journeys benefit from extra time in the schedule; quieter periods fall on evenings, weekends and school holidays. Whatever the traffic, your driver plans the route in advance and the fare does not change.
We confirm where your driver will meet you well before travel day, and for airport connections the flight is tracked so the pickup follows your actual landing time. The normal airport routine still sits either side of the drive — check-in and security if you are departing, passport control and baggage reclaim if you are arriving — and both are covered by the waiting time built into the fare.
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 Tower Hamlets 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.
We quote one fixed price from your Tower Hamlets address to wherever you are heading, before you book, so there is nothing to work out later. Get an instant quote online or call us.
Yes, all six London airports are reachable from Tower Hamlets at a fixed price, and we track your flight on every arrival at no extra cost.
Yes. We collect from any address in Tower Hamlets — 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 Tower Hamlets journey is the price you pay, whatever the traffic or time of day.
Yes — Tower Hamlets is covered 24/7, so an early flight or a late landing makes no difference to availability or price.
We can — MPVs, 8-seaters or several cars if needed, so a larger Tower Hamlets group travels together with all the luggage at one agreed price.
Yes, at no extra cost. Specify infant, child or booster seats when booking and they will be in place before pickup.
You can. Reserving the return alongside the outbound locks in both prices and lets us plan the Tower Hamlets return around your schedule.
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 Tower Hamlets transfer? Call +44 (0) 158 282 4631 or email booking@airportmove.co.uk.
Last updated: 17 August 2026