LCY's morning wave leaves early — the 06:30s and 07:00s that make a same-day European meeting possible — and its only railway, the DLR, starts around 5.30 on weekdays and later on Sundays. The gap between the first train and the first flight is where the pre-booked car lives.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup
Weekday first DLR services typically start around half past five — workable for a 07:00 with hand luggage and nerve, marginal for a 06:30, and later on Sundays when the early bank still flies. Check TfL live for your date. LCY's whole appeal is speed; a platform wait at 05:20 with a boarding clock running spends the advantage the airport was chosen for.
Twenty minutes from the Square Mile, fifteen from Canary Wharf, at 5am with empty Docklands roads. LCY's compact terminal does the rest — kerb to gate in minutes. The car is quoted fixed, timed to your bag-drop, and doesn't check TfL's opening hours.
LCY's local buses start early and cost pennies — and stop everywhere, from limited corridors. With a cabin bag and a 06:30 boarding, they're a spectator sport.
For 07:00+ departures on weekdays it can genuinely work. Verify the first service for your line and date, add margin, and have a fallback saved — a missed 06:30 from LCY usually means a missed meeting, which was the whole point.
West End, Kensington, Essex and Kent approaches are all fixed-quote runs — at 5am the roads cooperate everywhere. Tell us the postcode and flight; the quote is the price.
The 4am price is the 4pm price — locked at booking.
Flight number in — pickup time, route and fixed fare out. Sleep on the rest.