You land, we are there. Private fixed-fare transfers from Sydney Airport out to Couridjah — a scattering of houses on the ridge between Thirlmere Lakes and the Bargo bushland, about as quiet as the shire gets — with your flight watched from wheels-down and nothing to pay until you are home.
Wollondilly Airport Shuttle meets arriving passengers at Sydney Airport and drives them home to Couridjah (NSW 2571) — a fixed-fare private transfer, not a shared shuttle. The driver waits in the P7 Rideshare Pickup Area at T1, or in the priority pickup area at T2 and T3, and the fare is $235 one way for one or two passengers, rising to $385 for eleven in one vehicle. It is 88 km from the terminal to the Couridjah Road turnoff, about 1 hr 19 min. Your flight number does the work: the pickup moves with the aircraft, and the Couridjah fare covers an hour of waiting at T1 or forty minutes at T2 and T3 from the moment the wheels touch. Nothing is payable in advance. Book both legs together and the return is done before you have packed. Quote on 0427 143 612.
Fixed price, each direction
One published number in each direction. $235 covers one or two arriving passengers, and only the vehicle size moves it.
| Passengers | Vehicle | Fixed fare (one way) | Typical booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Sedan | $235 | couples and solo travellers landing together |
| 3 | Kia Carnival | $265 | a family of three with checked bags |
| 4 | Kia Carnival | $265 | four adults and their luggage |
| 5 | People Mover | $295 | families home from a holiday |
| 6 | People Mover | $295 | two households on the same flight |
| 7 | Minibus | $335 | extended family arrivals |
| 8 | Minibus | $335 | cruise passengers off the ship |
| 9 | Minibus | $385 | wedding guests flying in |
| 10 | Minibus | $385 | teams and work groups |
| 11 | Minibus | $385 | the maximum in a single vehicle |
The fare is set when you book and does not move for the date or the length of the queue at immigration. Nothing is charged at booking and no card is held; the fare is paid on the day. Fares reviewed August 2026.
Arrivals are where transfers earn their keep. Getting to the airport is a solvable problem. Getting out of it at midnight with three cases is the part worth paying to remove.
What meets your flight
Passengers and luggage decide the class at the time of booking, so the right vehicle is already on its way when you land.
01
1–2 passengers
Toyota Camry, Lexus or similar
02
3–4 passengers
Kia Carnival or similar
03
5–6 passengers
LDV G10 or similar
04
7–11 passengers
Toyota HiAce or similar
The difference is space, not service. Every vehicle on this page comes with tolls and GST in the fare, restraints fitted at no cost, flight-number tracking and payment on the day you travel to Couridjah.
Terminal to door
Allow about 1 hr 19 min for the 88 km from the terminal to the Couridjah Road turnoff. The drive back is motorway until Pheasants Nest, then progressively smaller roads: Remembrance Driveway, the Thirlmere turn, and finally the ridge road to Couridjah. It is a beautiful run in daylight and an entirely black one after dark.
Heading out of the city is the kinder leg. The heavy traffic on the M5 East runs the other way in the morning peak, so an evening arrival usually clears the tunnel and keeps moving.
If you are flying out rather than in, the leave-by times and departure fares are on the Couridjah to Sydney Airport page.
When the flight moves
Nobody plans for the flight to slip three hours, so we plan for it instead: the pickup tracks the aircraft, not the timetable. What follows is what happens in each case.
An hour of free waiting at T1, counted from the moment the aircraft is on the ground. However far the flight slips, the pickup slips with it at no cost.
Domestic arrivals get forty minutes of free waiting, timed from the real landing rather than the printed one.
Diverted, cancelled or rebooked onto tomorrow? Call or message and we move the booking with no cancellation charge — there is nothing paid in advance to lose.
One flight number does all the work here: it sets the pickup, absorbs the delay and tells the driver when to leave for the terminal.
Finding your driver
You clear customs, walk through the barrier, and there is your name. The driver takes the trolley from there and walks you out to the car.
Domestic arrivals are simpler: message the driver when you clear the belt and the vehicle pulls into the priority zone as you walk out.
Then it is one run to your door with nobody else in the vehicle and nothing else on the itinerary. Couridjah addresses often go by property name rather than number and several driveways look identical from the road. Give us both the number and any name on the gate.
The second airport
Our arrival service starts the same day, at its own published fare.
about 1 hr 3 min · toll-free on our route
Home from WSI is The Northern Road, Camden, Picton, then the ridge road. It is a long way from anywhere on a map and a surprisingly quick run in practice once the roads are empty. Route detail on the Couridjah to WSI page.
about 1 hr 19 min · Hume, M5 and tunnel
Where the long-haul arrivals land today, and where most of our arrival work still happens — T1 meet and greet, T2 and T3 kerbside.
$235 either way. We do not price by terminal or by hour, and there is no $18.61 station charge to add, because the vehicle goes from the arrivals door to your address.
Get Free QuoteYour options at the kerb
Nobody makes a good decision about transport while queuing with luggage, so the comparison is set out here.
| Option | Typical cost (2 adults) | Door to terminal | What it actually involves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private transfer (us) | $235 fixed | ~1 hr 19 min, door to door | met inside the terminal, luggage carried, a fixed published fare, straight to your door |
| Train from the airport | Opal fares plus $18.61 station access fee each | 2 hrs or more, if it is running | rail gets you as far as Tahmoor or Thirlmere at best, with an $18.61 access fee each and somebody still needing to collect you from the platform at the other end |
| Rideshare or taxi | metered, and surge-dependent | ~1 hr 19 min if a car accepts | there is effectively no way home to Couridjah at night that does not involve a pre-booked car |
| Drive and park | fuel and tolls plus from about $190 a week in budget long-stay parking | ~1 hr 19 min plus the car park shuttle | only works if you drove yourself out and left the car there — and it means finding the car park shuttle after a long flight before you can start driving |
The station access fee is Transport for NSW's published charge for entering or leaving an airport rail station — check the current figure before you rely on it. The honest summary for an arrival into Couridjah: rail can work in daylight with hand luggage, and stops working entirely once the flight is late, the bags are checked, or the last service has gone.
Arriving together
Eleven arriving passengers are met by one vehicle for $385 — about $35 a seat, against three separate taxis from the rank at whatever the meter says. Sports teams, extended families and disembarking cruise passengers use it most.
Flight number, passengers, bags. If the party is arriving on two different aircraft, that is not a problem, but tell us which you want for the Couridjah run: one vehicle waiting for the second flight, or two separate pickups.
Compared with the rank
Taxi queues at Sydney Airport build exactly when the big arrivals land together. A booked driver is already waiting and does not join a queue.
Metered and surge pricing on a run this long is decided by the traffic and the hour. Yours was agreed before you left home.
A long run out of the city late at night is one plenty of drivers decline. Booked in advance, that is not a conversation you have to have.
Reasons to book ahead
One message before you leave home covers the whole return leg, which is the part travellers most often leave to chance.
The difference between a good arrival and a bad one is whether a person is standing there when the doors open.
Free waiting is measured from touchdown, so a slow bag belt or a long immigration queue costs nothing.
Nothing is charged when you book and no card is held. You pay the driver at your door on the day of travel, by card, cash or PayID, with a tax invoice emailed if you want one.
Ages at booking mean capsules and boosters are in the vehicle before it heads for the terminal, at no charge.
Public holidays are charged at the ordinary fare; set fees apply for pickups before 6am or after 8pm.
The way we drive it
From the airport tunnel to your street: the usual run home to Couridjah, leg by leg.
Suburbs around here
Every surrounding suburb carries its own arrivals page rather than sharing this one's pricing.
Not on this list, but still in Wollondilly, Macarthur or the Highlands? The full suburb list.
Who you are booking with
An owner-operated transfer service based in Wollondilly Shire — the driver meeting you is one of ours, not a booking sold on to another operator.
ABN: 51 939 227 384
P2P service provider no: BSP-439561
Seventy-five localities through Wollondilly Shire, the Macarthur district and the Southern Highlands.
Sedan, Kia Carnival, people mover and eleven-seat minibus — the class is set from your headcount at booking.
All hours, all year: the 1am arrival and Christmas morning are both ordinary shifts.
A published price per suburb for each destination, with tolls and GST inside it. Nothing payable in advance.
Questions about arrivals
A fixed $235 one way for one or two passengers, up to $385 for eleven in one vehicle. It is the outbound fare plus the $10 airport pickup fee — set fees apply for pickups before 6am or after 8pm, and there is no public-holiday surcharge.
International arrivals are a terminal pickup: your name on a card inside the T1 hall, just past the customs doors, and help with the luggage from there. Domestic is a text from the baggage belt and the vehicle in the priority pickup zone as you reach the door.
88 km, normally about 1 hr 19 min. You are driving away from Sydney's peak rather than into it, which is why the homeward leg tends to beat the outbound one on the same road.
No charge and no action needed from you. We watch the flight, the pickup shifts with it, and the free waiting allowance — an hour at T1, forty minutes at T2 and T3 — only starts once the wheels are actually down.
One message rebooks it. Since no money has changed hands and no card is held, there is nothing to refund and no fee to argue about.
Nothing is payable in advance and no card is stored. The fare is settled with the driver when you get home — card, cash or PayID — with an emailed invoice on request.
Yes, that is the whole point of it. Couridjah addresses often go by property name rather than number and several driveways look identical from the road. Give us both the number and any name on the gate.
Only partway. Tahmoor or Thirlmere is the practical limit, the airport station access fee is $18.61 a head on top of the Opal fare, and the remaining distance is a pickup you would have to arrange anyway.
Two things: certainty of price on a 88 km run, and certainty that a car exists at all. Both disappear at the rank on a busy night, which is generally the night you are landing.
Yes. Nothing about the booking changes: $235, free waiting from touchdown, and no advance payment.
Yes — eleven arriving passengers and their luggage in one minibus for $385, about $35 a seat. If the group is split across two flights, tell us and we will either hold the vehicle or run two pickups.
Yes and no charge. Capsules, forward-facing seats and boosters are fitted before departure for the airport, which is why the ages matter at booking rather than on the day.
Yes — pickups from 8pm to 10pm add $10, and after 10pm $20. There is effectively no way home to Couridjah at night that does not involve a pre-booked car.
Anything from twenty-four hours ahead is usually fine, though peak holiday periods fill earlier. Booking the arrival alongside the departure saves thinking about it twice.
Just message. The driver will either be nearby already or will tell you precisely how long — we would rather give you an honest fifteen minutes than an optimistic five.
Thirlmere, Pheasants Nest, Tahmoor, Bargo, plus the whole of the surrounding district. All 75 localities have their own arrivals page and their own fixed fare.
All Couridjah transfer pages
Every route we run for Couridjah has its own page, with its own distances, timings and pickup notes.
Fixed $235 from the terminal to your door, the flight tracked, the waiting free and no advance payment. Send the form with your flight number and we confirm the same day.
Private, fixed-fare airport and cruise transfers from 75 suburbs across Wollondilly Shire, Macarthur and the Southern Highlands. A published fare per suburb for each destination, tolls and GST inside it, no deposit and no weekend loading — you pay the driver on the day of travel.
Sister services run by the same local team.