Door to door from Bristol Airport to Southampton Airport, £165 fixed for the whole car, quoted upfront for your exact pickup time with every surcharge already inside the number. 87.3 miles, roughly 138-192 minutes. No meter, no demand surge, meet and greet and flight tracking included, 24/7.
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The journey from Bristol Airport to Southampton Airport is 87.3 miles, and most people price it twice: once when they guess, and once when the meter or the surge app finishes with them. We price it exactly once, at £165 for the whole car, agreed at the moment you book, with tolls and zone charges already inside and a driver who arrives with your name and handles the bags. Motorway traffic, diversions and slow miles are our risk, not a line on your bill, and that is the entire point of a fixed fare instead of a rented meter. A 3am departure and a 3pm departure cost precisely the same.
£165 fixed saloon, whole car · 87.3 miles, 138-192 min · door to door, name on booking · all charges inside the quote · meet and greet and flight tracking · returns 1.8x, save 10% · 24/7 · book online or 01474 554933
An airport transfer is really three deadlines wearing one coat: the bag-drop cut-off, the security queue at its slowest plausible, and the gate. Give us the flight number at booking and two things happen automatically. The terminal is matched to your airline, so a carrier moving between terminals never strands you at the wrong doors, and the pickup is computed backwards from the check-in deadline rather than guessed forwards from the sofa. Drop-off and forecourt charges, where the airport levies them, are already inside your fixed price, so you will not be fishing for a card at a barrier. For arrivals the machinery reverses: the driver tracks your flight to the stand, waits in the hall with a name board, and the free hour of waiting starts at actual touchdown, late landings and long border queues included, not invoiced. If a connection genuinely looks too tight, we say so before you are committed.
Before six in the morning the journey flows beautifully, with clear roads, quick times and the calm of a trip that began with a knock at the door rather than a queue. In the peaks we plan honestly, with the upper end of the window, a margin that leans your way, and a straight answer in advance if a connection looks tight. Whatever the clock says, one thing is bolted down before departure: the price. Roadworks, diversions and slow miles are our risk, not a line on your bill. One person, one small bag, the middle of the day, and the train can be the smarter buy, which we are happy to admit. The arithmetic flips at three familiar points: company, cargo and the clock. A black cab solves the comfort question at whatever the meter decides; an app solves it at a price set by demand the minute you are desperate; a pre-booked fixed fare is the only version of this journey where the number was agreed while you were still calm.
| Vehicle | Fixed price |
|---|---|
| Saloon (4) | £165 |
| Executive (3) | £210 |
| MPV (6) | £218 |
| 8-Seater (7) | £269 |
| 9-Seater (8) | £283 |
Per car, always. Split £165 across a group and the per-head cost beats trains, coaches and ride-apps alike, with the luggage in a boot instead of on your knees. Returns are 1.8x the single fare: book both legs together and the 10% saving is automatic. Child seats are fitted free with ages at booking, and oversized items such as bikes or instruments are welcome with a word in advance so the right boot turns up.
Per-mile rates by vehicle are Saloon £2.54, Executive £3.23, MPV £3.35, 8-Seater £4.39 and 9-Seater £4.62, with sensible minimum fares so short hops stay viable. Beyond 40 miles the marginal rate drops to 68%, which is why long-distance quotes undercut what straight multiplication would suggest. Zone charges are shown inside the quote and never added after: £51.98 where a journey touches inner London, £23.10 per outer-London endpoint, and £17.33 where Kent, Essex or Sussex is involved, all already inside the £165 you see. Bigger journeys earn automatic discounts, 10% off totals above £173.25 and 15% above £288.75 on the larger vehicles. Returns booked together are 1.8x the single fare, a built-in 10% round-trip saving. Late-night pickups between 7pm and 5am that involve inner London take £11.55 off, a discount where other firms add a surcharge, and there is no night premium at any other hour.
The connector, joining a flight, a train or a sailing at the far end, for whom the timing matters more than anything, and we work backwards from the departure that cannot be missed. The group, friends, families and colleagues who split one fixed price and ride together with the bags in the boot instead of negotiating racks and stairs. The early and the late, whose journey starts before the network wakes or after it sleeps, collected at the door at the agreed minute. The visitor, new to the area and happier with a name on a board and a settled price than with decoding local options off a phone in the rain. And the regular, for whom this run is simply part of the routine, booked in one message because the details are already on file.
Count suitcases before people. A couple with two large cases sits comfortably in the saloon; add a buggy, golf clubs or a full holiday set and the MPV earns its modest premium instantly. The Executive suits client pickups and meetings on wheels, with a quiet cabin, a charging cable and an unhurried driver. The 8-seater and 9-seater move whole groups and their luggage in one calm vehicle for less per head than almost any alternative. If you are unsure, tell us the cases and the people at booking and we will size the car for you rather than leaving you to guess at the kerb.
Tell us what the journey actually needs and the right car turns up. Child seats at every stage, infant, toddler and booster, are fitted free with ages given at booking. Assistance with luggage, a steady arm to the door and extra time at pickup for anyone who moves carefully are standard, not premium. Assistance dogs always travel, no notice needed, and foldable wheelchairs and walkers ride in the boot as a matter of course. The point of a pre-booked car is that the journey adapts to the passenger, never the reverse.
Every driver is TfL private-hire licensed and enhanced-DBS checked, and every vehicle carries full private-hire insurance for the work it does. Journeys are logged, receipts are emailed automatically, and lost property has a phone number that answers, 01474 554933, rather than a form that vanishes. If something is not right, a complaint reaches a human the same day. Payment is by card online or to the driver, with a receipt either way, and minimum notice is 120 minutes for standard journeys and just 30 for airport pickups. The 4.9-star score across 4,850 riders is not decoration; it is the running total of exactly these habits.
Online at rushxo.com, where every vehicle’s fixed price appears before you pay. By phone on 01474 554933, answered by people around the clock. On WhatsApp, where you send the pickup, destination and time and get the price back in minutes. Or by account, for businesses and frequent travellers who prefer one monthly invoice. The one habit that unlocks everything on a connection is to give us the departure you must make, the flight, the train or the sailing, and let us quote the pickup backwards from it with the margin already inside. Whichever way you book, the driver’s name, photo and registration reach your phone before pickup, and you are messaged the moment the car is in position, so at any hour you know exactly which car is yours.
A black cab solves the comfort question at whatever the meter decides; a ride app solves it at a price set by demand the minute you are most desperate; the train can genuinely be the smarter buy for a solo traveller with hand luggage at a quiet hour, and we will say so. A pre-booked fixed fare is simply the only version of Bristol Airport to Southampton Airport where the number was agreed while you were still calm, the car was guaranteed before you needed it, and a late-night inner-London pickup earns a discount instead of a surcharge. For most travellers carrying real luggage, travelling as a pair or group, or moving at an awkward hour, that is the version worth having.