Northeast of the Brandywine
Reserve airport car service from northeast Wilmington, DE to PHL, ZIP 19802
By road, ZIP 19802 lies 18.8 miles from the departures curb at Philadelphia International Airport, and the office arranges private rides between this corner of New Castle County and the terminals, in either direction. You send one request with your address, date and flight. The office asks the local car companies for one with a car open at your hour and passes its own fare to you in writing. This is airport car service from northeast Wilmington, DE to PHL, priced per car, each way, with nothing owed until you say yes in writing.
19802
Mail reads Wilmington, DE
Sedan from $135 SUV from $180
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 18.8 mi, about 32 min at a quiet hour
- Back from Zone 6 19.7 mi, about 33 min
- Roads I-95
For comparison, airport car service from Trolley Square to PHL covers 20.9 miles and starts at $140 for a sedan and $190 for an SUV, against 18.8 miles, $135 and $180 here.
Brandywine Village, Riverside and Price's Run
Every letter to 19802 says Wilmington, yet neighbors here are more likely to name a smaller patch of the city: Brandywine Village, Brandywine Hills, Riverside, Eastlake, Price's Run, Harlan or Penn Rose. All seven sit inside this ZIP, in the northeast part of the city. On a ride request the street, house number and ZIP are what count, so give the address as the post office knows it and add the neighborhood name if it helps at the door.
The label tells the post office where to sort a letter; it says little about distance. Ten ZIPs carry Wilmington, and by road they run from 15.9 to 30.6 miles from the terminals, so the office prints its from-figures by ZIP rather than by city name. For 19802 the figure rests on 18.8 miles out and 19.7 miles back.
A short climb onto I-95
Flying out, the car company's driver heads up I-95 North from northeast Wilmington into Pennsylvania. At a quiet hour that is 18.8 miles and 32 minutes. The car leaves at exit 10 for PA-291 East and follows Departures Road, where the terminals stand in order: A-West, A-East, B, C, D, E, F. It stops at your terminal's curb only to unload, so check your flight details for the terminal and write it on the request.
Treat those 32 minutes as the least the drive takes, never as a promise. Rush hours on I-95 between Wilmington and the airport add time, so when your departure falls near a rush, choose a pickup time with a wider margin and note on the request when your flight leaves.
Collecting you after the flight
Northeast Wilmington is 19.7 miles back, about 33 minutes at a quiet hour, nearly all of it on I-95. Outside each baggage claim building there is a Zone 6, and that is where your car pulls in. Write the flight number into the request; it is how the company learns that a flight came in late. For the doors used at each terminal, see the page for airport pickup at PHL for New Castle County.
From-figures: $135 and $180
In 19802 the sedan starts at $135 and the SUV at $180, per car and each way. The car company answers with a fixed rate in writing; the extras it may add are listed in the box near the top of this page. Figures for the whole county are on airport transfer rates to PHL by ZIP code.