SFO Airport Transfer Service
Flat rates from Marin, San Francisco, Napa, and the Bay Area. Curb-side pickup. Real-time flight tracking. From $145.
The way airport transfer is supposed to be.
An SFO transfer is a chauffeur job with a tight margin for error. Land thirty minutes late and the dispatcher who promised you a 3:30 PM pickup has now run two other trips and you are last in queue. Walk out of Terminal A at 4:15 PM and the curb-side stager has gone to the cell-phone lot ten minutes ago because the airport ran his pickup pass over. None of that should be your problem.
Here is how we run an SFO transfer. The moment you book, your trip is assigned to a specific chauffeur and a specific vehicle. The morning of, your driver checks your flight number and reads any schedule changes. He texts you 90 minutes before your scheduled pickup with his name and vehicle description. He tracks your flight live from boarding through wheels-down. For domestic arrivals, he is at the Level 2 curb at your terminal within ten minutes of touchdown. For international arrivals at Terminal A, he stages 25 minutes after wheels-down to account for customs, and adjusts if customs is slow.
If your flight is delayed by four hours, we do not charge for the wait. If you land early, we do not make you wait either. The first 60 minutes of wait time after wheels-down are included in the flat rate. We do not run cell-phone-lot loops; we do not charge for parking; we do not charge a fuel surcharge.
Pick the vehicle by passenger count and luggage.
Lincoln Continental
The right call for one to three passengers with standard luggage. Soft leather, privacy partition optional, the quietest cabin in the fleet for the executive who works on phone during the ride.
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Cadillac Escalade ESV
The family pickup. Captain's chairs in the second row, full cargo area for international arrivals with full checked luggage. Tri-zone climate so the family in the back row gets the temperature they want.
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Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
For corporate teams of seven to twelve arriving together, or wedding parties consolidating from one flight. Conference seating, WiFi router, USB at every seat for the team that opens laptops on the drive.
View vehicleWhat an SFO transfer costs from where you are.
From Marin (our home territory)
Mill Valley to SFO: $145 sedan, $185 SUV, $245 Sprinter. About 38 minutes off-peak, 65 minutes during the 4-7 PM southbound window.
Sausalito to SFO: $135 sedan, $175 SUV. About 32 minutes off-peak.
San Rafael to SFO: $165 sedan, $205 SUV. About 50 minutes off-peak.
Tiburon to SFO: $140 sedan, $180 SUV.
From San Francisco
Pacific Heights to SFO: $115 sedan, $155 SUV.
Financial District to SFO: $115 sedan, $155 SUV.
SoMa or Mission Bay to SFO: $105 sedan, $145 SUV.
Sunset or Richmond to SFO: $125 sedan, $165 SUV.
From Napa and Sonoma
Napa to SFO: $385 sedan, $445 SUV, $495 Navigator. About 75-100 min.
Yountville or St. Helena to SFO: $415 sedan, $475 SUV.
Sonoma plaza to SFO: $395 sedan, $455 SUV. About 80-95 min.
Healdsburg to SFO: $445 sedan, $505 SUV.
From East Bay and Peninsula
Oakland or Berkeley to SFO: $145 sedan, $185 SUV.
Walnut Creek to SFO: $185 sedan, $225 SUV.
Palo Alto to SFO: $135 sedan, $175 SUV.
San Jose / Cupertino to SFO: $175 sedan, $215 SUV.
Rates include vehicle, chauffeur, fuel, tolls, and bottled water. A 20 percent driver gratuity is added as a separate line on the quote and is adjustable. Off-peak rates are quoted Sunday through Thursday; Friday and Saturday evening pickups carry a small surcharge built into the quote.
How SFO works, and how we work with it.
Terminal A (International)
SFO Terminal A serves international arrivals and the airlines that operate them: Lufthansa, Air France, KLM, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines, EVA, Korean Air, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines. International arrivals clear customs in 25 to 40 minutes typically; flights connecting through Asia clear faster, flights from Europe slower (more passengers, fewer customs agents on the evening shift). We stage chauffeur pickup 25 minutes after wheels-down for international flights, and adjust live.
Pickup point: International arrivals curbside on Level 2, or the dedicated meet-and-greet zone next to the international baggage claim. Your chauffeur will text the exact spot 15 minutes before your scheduled pickup.
Terminals 1, 2, 3 (Domestic)
Terminal 1: Southwest, Delta, JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier. Terminal 2: American Airlines, Alaska. Terminal 3: United (the dominant terminal; United is SFO's largest carrier by far). For domestic arrivals, we monitor wheels-down and are at Level 2 curbside within 5 to 10 minutes.
For departures, we drop you at the upper-level departures curb at your terminal. We recommend arrival 2 hours before domestic departure for TSA Pre-Check, 2.5 hours without. The pickup time on your quote is planned backward from that target.
SFO traffic windows we plan around
Southbound 101 from Marin to SFO is reliably backed up between 3:45 PM and 7:00 PM Tuesday through Thursday, lighter on Mondays and Fridays. We add 25 to 35 minutes to the standard 38-minute drive during that window. If your flight is during this window, your driver will leave Marin earlier than the standard formula suggests.
The Bay Bridge backs up Tuesday through Thursday 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM eastbound and Friday 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM westbound, which matters if your pickup is in the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley) and dropping at SFO. We route via the San Mateo Bridge in those windows.
Weekend SFO traffic is light most of the day except Sunday afternoons (2:00 to 6:00 PM) when returning weekend travelers fill the southbound 101 from Marin and the Bay Bridge approaches.
The cell-phone lot question
SFO's cell-phone lot is a free waiting area for pickups, accessed via Aviation Way off North Access Road. Most rideshare drivers use it. We do not, because the lot is 8 to 12 minutes away from the curbside pickup zones depending on traffic and which terminal. By the time the cell-phone-lot driver is paged and routes back to the curb, you have been waiting 12 to 18 minutes.
We stage at curbside or in the active pickup zone. SFO allows up to 5 minutes at curbside without an active pickup-pass call, which is enough to clear a domestic arrival. For international, we use the dedicated meet-and-greet area which has longer staging time.
SFO to Napa is one of our most common trips.
Wine country arrivals from SFO are our highest-LTV bookings. Couples landing from Lufthansa or Air France at Terminal A, headed to Carneros or Yountville for a five-day trip. We meet at international arrivals, hold for customs, drive the 75-100 minute route to your hotel (Auberge du Soleil, Carneros Resort, Meadowood, Solage all standard), and we know which entrance to use.
If you have a wine tour scheduled for the same arrival day, we will hold the same chauffeur and same vehicle for the next morning. Continuity matters even more when the trip spans multiple days.