Taxi from Melbourne CBD to Melbourne Airport. Fixed fare. Flight tracked.
Pre-booked transfers from anywhere in the CBD grid — Crown, Collins Street, Southbank, Docklands — to Melbourne Airport (Tullamarine) and Avalon. Fares locked at booking, drivers track your flight, kerb-side pickups from your hotel or apartment. Operating 24/7 from a Melbourne dispatch on 1300 012 018.
Melbourne CBD → MEL · Off-peak
33 min
Fixed fare locked at booking
33 min
Melbourne CBD to MEL off-peak
Fixed
No surge Melbourne CBD-to-airport fare
Free
Flight tracking included
24/7
Melbourne dispatch
Real travel times · Melbourne CBD → MEL
The Tullamarine run, by the hour.
CBD to Melbourne Airport is a short trip on paper — 25 km via the Tullamarine Freeway. The variable is when you leave. Book by flight time, not by clock time, and the pickup is calculated backwards from when you need to be at the gate.
Fleet at Tullamarine
Lexus, Tesla & hybrid sedans
When you leave
Trip time
Conditions
9pm – 6am
Clear run
Free freeway, fastest run of the day
6am – 7am
Clear run
Pre-peak, still clean
7am – 9am
Peak hour
Weekday morning peak — book earliest
9am – 3pm
Clear run
Mid-day, predictable
3pm – 7pm
Peak hour
Evening peak, school zones, freeway congestion
7pm – 9pm
Clear run
Off-peak resumes
Weekends (any time)
Clear run
Lighter traffic across both directions
Times are CBD-grid average to MEL Terminal 1/2/3/4 kerb. Adjust +5-10 min for Avalon Airport (AVV) west of the city.
Where we pick up · CBD grid
Hotels, apartments, offices — anywhere in the grid.
The CBD grid runs from Spencer to Spring, Flinders to La Trobe, plus Docklands and Southbank. The driver confirms the kerb-side pickup directly with you — hotel concierge desk, lobby door, drop-pin from the booking confirmation. No app required.
CBD hotels
- Crown Towers / Crown Metropol
- Park Hyatt / Grand Hyatt
- Sofitel on Collins
- Hotel Windsor / Stamford Plaza
- The Westin / Pan Pacific
Docklands
- Marina Tower
- Aurora apartments
- Convention Centre
- NewQuay Promenade
- Victoria Harbour
Southbank
- Eureka Tower
- Crown Promenade
- Southbank Place
- Freshwater Place
- Australia 108
Collins / Bourke
- Rialto Towers
- 120 Collins
- Bourke Place
- Collins Square
- 101 Collins
Transit hubs
- Southern Cross Station
- Flinders Street Station
- Melbourne Central
- Parliament Station
- Bourke Street Mall
Residential towers
- Anywhere in the CBD grid
- Drop-pin pickup
- Lobby concierge confirmed
- Kerb-side at your door
- No app needed
Driven by Melburnians · CBD know-how
We drive the grid the way locals do.
Our drivers live and work in Melbourne — they don't follow a generic map to the airport, they read the city. That local instinct is the difference between catching the green wave up William Street and sitting through three cycles of a Flinders Street red.
Local drivers, Melbourne dispatch, no overseas call centre. Ask the driver anything about the city — most of them have been driving the grid for years.
Melbourne CBD
We read the grid, not the GPS.
- 01
We know the right on-ramp
CityLink from Flinders Street vs the Footscray Road run vs Dynon — the fastest way onto the Tullamarine Freeway changes with the time of day. We pick the on-ramp that's actually moving, not the one the GPS defaults to.
- 02
We plan around the trams
Swanston, Bourke, and Collins belong to the trams. We pull pickups onto the quieter cross-streets — Little Collins, Flinders Lane, A'Beckett — so you're not boxed in behind a stopped tram with your bags on the kerb.
- 03
Hook turns don't slow us down
The CBD's hook turns catch out-of-towners and rideshare drivers every day. They're second nature to us, so the run out of the grid stays smooth instead of stalling at every right-hand corner.
- 04
We read event-day road closures
Grand Prix, the Christmas parade, marathons, White Night — half the grid can close with little notice. We track the closures and re-route before they cost you time, not after we're already stuck behind a barrier.
- 05
We know the hotel kerb zones
Crown's porte-cochère, the Sofitel rank on Collins, the Westin loading dock off Collins Place — every CBD hotel has its own pickup quirk. The driver goes to the right door the first time, no circling the block.
- 06
Early starts are our specialty
The 4am and 5am CBD-to-Tullamarine run is one of our most-booked trips. Pre-dawn the freeway is empty and the airport is quiet — we get you to the kerb in 28-30 minutes with time to spare for the bag drop.
Finding your driver · Melbourne Airport
Met at the kerb — not in a queue.
On the way back, there's no rideshare queue and no walk to a distant pickup zone. Your driver tracks the flight, parks, and meets you at your terminal. Tell us the terminal when you book — most CBD-bound riders are in the car within minutes of clearing the carousel.
T1
Qantas · Domestic
Driver waits at the T1 arrivals kerb on the ground level. Name board on request for first-time riders.
T2
International
Met in the T2 arrivals hall after customs — handy if you've got bags or family in tow after a long-haul flight.
T3
Virgin · Domestic
Kerb-side pickup at the T3 arrivals door, steps from baggage claim. No zone-hopping.
T4
Jetstar · Rex · Domestic
Collected at the T4 forecourt, ground level — we skip the rideshare car-park queue entirely.
Add your flight number at booking and the pickup re-times itself automatically if you land early or late. No meter runs while we wait at arrivals.
Fixed fare · the maths
The price you're quoted is the price you pay.
A rideshare fare is a moving target — it climbs with rain, peak hour, and a busy arrivals hall, and an airport access fee lands on top. Our CBD-to-airport fare is locked at booking and doesn't move, whatever the city is doing that day.
No surge, ever — not on New Year's Eve, not during the Grand Prix, not at 5pm in the rain. Get an exact CBD-to-airport figure on the fare estimate page or by calling 1300 012 018.
Melbourne's calendar · airport impact
We know which week the city fills up.
Melbourne runs on its events, and the big ones reshape traffic, hotel demand, and airport queues for days. We watch the calendar so your pre-booked fare and pickup time already account for the crowd before it arrives.
Australian Open
Two weeks of full hotels and packed flights. Melbourne Park traffic spills onto Batman Avenue and the riverside — we route around the precinct and book pickups earlier to stay ahead of it.
Formula 1 Grand Prix
Albert Park closures ripple into the CBD and back to the freeway for the whole race weekend. Airport runs need extra lead time — we build it into the booking so you're not caught by the road closures.
AFL Grand Final week
The Parade shuts the CBD streets and the MCG crowd floods the grid. Interstate travellers leave en masse the next morning — early-bird airport pickups book out fast, so reserve ahead.
Melbourne Cup Carnival
Flemington trackgoers and a public holiday push both airport directions hard. We pre-position drivers for the post-race exodus so your Tullamarine run still leaves on time.
Boxing Day Test
Five days of MCG cricket on top of the holiday airport rush. Yarra Park traffic and a busy Tullamarine mean earlier pickups — we lock your fare before the holiday surge pricing hits elsewhere.
Comedy & Food + Wine festivals
Back-to-back festivals keep the CBD humming and hotels full through autumn. Flights stay busy midweek — pre-booking keeps your airport transfer clear of the late-night festival crowds.
Event dates shift year to year — when you book, we cross-check your travel date against the live Melbourne calendar and adjust the pickup time if there's a clash.
Common Melbourne CBD pickup questions.
Couldn’t find what you’re looking for? Call the Melbourne dispatch on 1300 012 018.
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Verified ride“Booked the night before for a 5am pickup from Crown. Driver was at the lobby at 4:55am, stayed silent for the run, dropped me at T2 with 90 minutes to spare.”
Verified rider · CBD → MEL