Downtown, Quaker Hill, Southbridge
Downtown's own ZIP, 19801: reserve an airport transfer from downtown Wilmington, DE to PHL
For addresses in ZIP 19801, in central Wilmington in New Castle County, the office arranges private car rides to and from Philadelphia International Airport. An airport transfer from downtown Wilmington, DE to PHL starts with the form on this page: you give the address, the date, your flight and how many people are coming, and the office finds a local car company with a car free and sends you that company's own price in writing. You decide after reading it, and you pay that company, as its written fare says.
19801
Mail reads Wilmington, DE
Sedan from $145 SUV from $195
per car, each way, for this ZIP
A from-figure is the starting price per car, each way. Can be added in the written fare: gratuity, unless the fare includes it; extra stops; waiting past the time the fare names; an airport charge or a toll, if one applies.
- To the terminals 22.1 mi, about 32 min at a quiet hour
- Back from Zone 6 22.6 mi, about 33 min
- Roads I-495, I-95
Next door in 19802, northeast Wilmington, the road to the terminals is 18.8 miles, 3.3 fewer than from 19801, and the figures start at $135 for a sedan and $180 for an SUV.
Quaker Hill, Southbridge and the Riverfront
Ask people in 19801 where they live and few of them answer with a number. They say Quaker Hill, Trinity Vicinity, West Center City, Midtown Brandywine, the Riverfront, Southbridge or just Downtown. The post office prints one word over all of these: Wilmington. It prints the same word for nine more ZIPs, 19802 through 19810, and by road those ten run from 15.9 to 30.6 miles from the terminals.
So the city name on an envelope tells the office very little about the drive, and the figure is set by ZIP instead. Put the street address and 19801 on the request and the numbers beside this text are the ones that apply. Homes out past the city line to the northwest have a page of their own, for a private car to PHL from Greenville, DE, with their own miles and roads.
Downtown streets to I-495
Flying out of 19801, the car covers 22.1 miles to the terminals, about 32 minutes at a quiet hour. It takes I-495 first, then I-95 North over the line into Pennsylvania, and leaves at exit 10, PA-291 East. From there it follows Departures Road, where the terminals stand in a row: A-West, A-East, B, C, D, E and F. Your flight booking names your terminal, so write it on the request; the car pulls in at that curb only to unload.
Those 32 minutes are what a quiet road gives. Rush hours on I-95 between Wilmington and the airport add time, so choose a pickup time by working back from the hour you want to stand at the curb, and leave room for the traffic of that part of the day.
From the carousel back downtown
Back downtown is 22.6 miles, roughly 33 minutes at a quiet hour, the last stretch on I-495. After the carousel, walk out to Zone 6, where cars booked in advance pull in. The flight number belongs on the request, because it tells the company when you actually land. Each terminal's exit is mapped out on the page for airport pickup at PHL for New Castle County.
$145 and $195 from 19801
Downtown figures are $145 for a sedan and $195 for an SUV, per car and in one direction. What you agree to is the car company's fixed rate, sent in writing, which names any of the additions listed near the top of this page. Compare all twenty-two ZIPs on airport transfer rates to PHL by ZIP code.