Where to find your car after landing at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark

Collect your bags, clear the terminal, then follow the airport signs to the pickup area and wait at the numbered spot given on your booking.

Once you are there, contact your driver to say so. The car is usually with you in about ten minutes.

Allow a little longer when several flights land together or the airport has traffic control in force. Your driver stays in contact throughout, so you are never left guessing.

Large airports do not allow vehicles to stand at arrivals; cars that linger are moved on or fined. So the car waits in a nearby holding area and comes round once you reach the pickup point.

That arrangement works in your favour: whether you come out early or late, the car is close by rather than having been moved along, so you never walk out to nothing.

The order matters — walk to the pickup point first, then call the driver, rather than scanning the arrivals hall for a car.

We wait. With a flight number on the booking, the driver is scheduled against the actual landing time — no rebooking, no change fee.

Airport pickups include 90 minutes of free waiting, counted from the moment the aircraft lands, not from the time you originally booked. Immigration queues, baggage reclaim and customs all happen inside that window.

Beyond the free allowance it is $1 per minute, collected in person by the driver and never added to the online bill.

This depends on us being able to reach you. If the free waiting runs out and there is still no contact, the driver may leave and the trip counts as a no-show.

Drop-offs, city pickups and all other trips include 15 minutes of free waiting, counted from the driver's arrival.

The difference is deliberate. On an arrival we are waiting on immigration and baggage, which nobody controls. On a city pickup the time is the one you chose, so the car arriving is the cue to come down.

Your driver loads the bags, unloads them at the other end, and holds the door for older passengers.

Enter the real passenger and bag counts when booking and the system picks the smallest vehicle that genuinely fits. If one car will not do, it upgrades the class or adds a second, priced before you pay.

For skis, golf bags or instruments, note the dimensions in the booking so we can size the vehicle to the actual load rather than discovering the problem at the kerb.

JFK spreads across several terminals, and immigration can be slow when long-haul arrivals bunch together. The 90 minutes runs from landing, which normally covers it. Each terminal's pickup point is covered in the JFK guide.

LaGuardia has been rebuilt in stages and its pickup points have moved more than once. Follow the spot on your booking rather than a previous visit's memory. Each terminal's pickup point is covered in the LaGuardia guide.

Newark sits on the New Jersey side, so reaching Manhattan means a tunnel or a bridge — the slowest few miles at peak hours. Those tolls are already inside your quoted price. Each terminal's pickup point is covered in the Newark guide.