Pasadena to LAX Car Service

For a domestic morning flight, plan on leaving about three hours before departure, and more if you are crossing downtown between 7 and 9. It is roughly 30 miles, but the spread between a clear run and a bad one is wider on this corridor than the distance suggests. Your chauffeur sets the pickup time against your actual flight and the traffic on the day, rather than a fixed rule.

Usually the 110 south through downtown and then the 105 west straight into the airport. When downtown is heavy we go the other way around, the 210 to the 605 to the 105, or west on the 134 and 101 to the 405 south. The decision is made on the day, not the week before.

The first few miles of the 110 south are the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which opened in 1940 and still has its original geometry: tight curves, narrow lanes and entrance ramps with almost no acceleration room. It is slower than its map distance implies and it is unforgiving of drivers who do not know it. We plan the time around that rather than discovering it with your flight at stake.

Yes. We take you to your departures level, your chauffeur handles the bags, and there is no parking structure and no shuttle. Tell us the airline when you book and we will have the right terminal.

Yes. Campus and lab pickups, the Convention Center hotels, Old Pasadena and a private residence are all the same to us. For a JPL pickup, give us the gate you will come out of, since that saves a lap of the site on a working morning.

Yes. You get a flat quote when you book and that is the price, with no surge pricing and no meter. Six passengers and six bags fit in the newer Cadillac Escalade ESV or Chevy Suburban, so a family or a project team travels in one vehicle. CPUC regulated, TCP #45621-A.

Yes. Curbside Rides is a licensed black car and chauffeur service, TCP #45621-A. Your ride is pre-booked at a flat rate with flight tracking and no surge.