Airports & terminals
What is the Pearson airport pickup fee?
Answered by the Toronto Airport Limo team · Last reviewed July 6, 2026
The airport pickup fee is $15.27 per pickup for the Sedan, Premium Sedan, SUV and Premium SUV, and $35 for the Sprinter Van and Stretch Limousine. It applies only when a vehicle collects you at the airport — never on rides to the airport — and it's already baked into every quoted total, so you'll never see it added at the curb. The same fee structure applies at every airport we serve, not just Pearson.
The fee itself, vehicle by vehicle
Commercial vehicles picking up passengers at Pearson operate under the airport's pre-arranged pickup system, and a per-pickup fee comes with that. What you need to know is simple: for the four car classes — Sedan, Premium Sedan, SUV and Premium SUV — the fee is $15.27. For the two largest vehicles, the Sprinter Van and the Stretch Limousine, it's $35.
It's charged per pickup, not per passenger. A family of six in an SUV pays the same $15.27 within their fare as a solo traveller in a sedan — one vehicle, one pickup, one fee.
This is also why two quotes for the same route can differ by direction. The fee exists only on the airport-pickup side, which makes rides from the airport slightly dearer than the mirror-image ride to it.
- Sedan / Premium Sedan / SUV / Premium SUV: $15.27 per pickup
- Sprinter Van / Stretch Limousine: $35 per pickup
- Charged per vehicle pickup, never per passenger
- Applies to pickups only — drop-offs are exempt
Where it hides in your quote (in plain sight)
When you price an airport pickup at /ride/, the number you see is all-in: base fare, gratuity, fuel where applicable, 13% HST, card fee — and the airport pickup fee. There is no separate line waiting to surprise you at the terminal, and the chauffeur never collects it in cash.
That's a deliberate contrast with the à-la-carte style of billing where a low headline rate grows a service charge here and an airport fee there. A flat quote is only honest if it's complete, so ours is complete.
Practical consequence: comparing us with any quote that says 'plus airport fees' means adding those fees to the other quote first. Ours has nothing left to add.
Pickup vs drop-off: the one-way charge
The fee follows the pickup, so direction decides everything. Car collects you at Pearson arrivals: fee applies, inside the quote. Car delivers you to Pearson departures: no fee anywhere in the math, which is why the drop-off direction of any route quotes a little lower.
Round trips inherit the same logic. Book a drop-off now and a pickup when you return, and only the return leg carries the fee — you're not paying it twice for one holiday.
If you've ever wondered why the airport-to-home quote didn't match the home-to-airport one you booked last month, this is the whole answer — same distance, same vehicle, one $15.27 difference.
- Airport pickup: fee included in the quoted total
- Airport drop-off: no fee at all
- Round trip: the fee appears once, on the pickup leg only
Beyond Pearson: the fee at YTZ, YHM and BUF
The same structure applies at every airport on our board — Billy Bishop downtown, Hamilton's John C. Munro International, and Buffalo Niagara across the border. Car classes carry the $15.27 pickup fee, the Sprinter and Stretch carry $35, and drop-offs are always fee-free.
That consistency keeps quotes predictable across airports: a Billy Bishop pickup and a Pearson pickup are built from the same parts, and the difference between them is distance, not fee trickery.
Whichever airport you're flying through, the number to trust is the all-in quote — it has already done this arithmetic for you.
- Same fee structure at Pearson, Billy Bishop, Hamilton and Buffalo
- Drop-offs are fee-free at every airport
- The instant quote always shows the finished, all-in total
See your all-in pickup quote
Related questions
Is the $15.27 added on top of the price I'm quoted?
No — it's already inside the quote. The total you see at /ride/ for an airport pickup includes the fee along with gratuity, HST and everything else. Nothing gets added at the curb or on your card afterwards.
Why do the Sprinter Van and Stretch Limousine pay $35 instead?
The fee is set by vehicle class, and the two largest vehicles carry the higher $35 rate. As with the car classes, it's one fee per pickup regardless of how many passengers share the vehicle — split eleven ways in a Sprinter, it's pocket change per person.
Is meet & greet the same thing as the pickup fee?
No — they're unrelated. The pickup fee is a per-pickup airport charge that's automatically inside every pickup quote. Meet & greet is an optional $65 service where the chauffeur waits inside the arrivals hall with a name sign; you add it only if you want it.
Do I pay the fee twice on a round trip?
No. Only the leg where a vehicle picks you up at an airport carries the fee. A typical round trip — driven to Pearson, picked up on return — pays it once, on the return pickup.
Is there any fee when I'm dropped off at Pearson?
None. Rides to the airport have no airport fee of any kind, which is exactly why the drop-off direction of every route quotes lower than the pickup direction.
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