Brandywine Hundred
Reserving from 19803: an airport transfer from Brandywine Hundred to PHL
From ZIP 19803, in northern New Castle County, the drive to Philadelphia International Airport runs 18.8 miles by road. The office arranges an airport transfer from Brandywine Hundred to PHL, and the ride back home after landing, by finding a local car company with a car free for your date and sending you that company's own price in writing. Your yes, also in writing, sends the booking on to that company, which confirms the ride itself and is the one you pay.
19803
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 19.6 mi, about 34 min
- Roads DE-261, DE-92, I-95
Next door in 19810, around Arden and Talleys Corner, the drive out is 15.9 miles and the from-figures are $130 and $175, so 19803 runs 2.9 miles longer and $5 higher.
Fairfax, Talleyville, Blue Ball and Carrcroft
Letters to 19803 say Wilmington, the same word the post office prints for nine other ZIPs. Those ten run from 15.9 to 30.6 road miles from the terminals, so the town on the envelope says little about the length of the drive, and the office lists its from-figures by ZIP instead.
People here tend to name home by its neighborhood: Fairfax, Talleyville, Blue Ball, Carrcroft, Concord Manor, Rockwood Hills, Shipley Ridge or Edenridge, which together make up the heart of Brandywine Hundred. Write the street address as you know it and let the ZIP set the figure. In northeast Wilmington, around Brandywine Village and Price's Run, the ZIP changes to 19802, which has its own page on airport car service from northeast Wilmington, DE to PHL.
DE-261 and DE-92 before I-95
From 19803 the drive to the departures curb is 18.8 miles, about 32 minutes when the roads are quiet. The car takes DE-261 first, then DE-92, then I-95 North over the state line into Pennsylvania. It leaves the highway at exit 10 for PA-291 East and comes onto Departures Road, where the terminals stand in this order: A-West, A-East, B, C, D, E, F. Your flight booking shows your terminal; write it on the request, and the car stops at that curb only to unload.
Those 32 minutes are a floor. Rush hours on I-95 between Wilmington and the airport add time, so a pickup time that falls inside a weekday rush needs a margin of its own. Set it earlier than the quiet-hour figure alone would suggest, and the extra minutes are spent at the curb instead of in traffic.
Back from the commercial roadway
The return to Brandywine Hundred covers 19.6 miles, roughly 34 minutes in easy traffic, the last part on DE-92 and DE-261. Zone 6 is where the arranged car meets you; the doors to it open off baggage claim. With your flight number on the request, the company can see an early or late arrival. A fuller walk-through lives on the page for airport pickup at PHL for New Castle County.
Sedan or SUV, priced for 18.8 miles
For 19803 the figures are $135 for a sedan and $180 for an SUV, per car, each way. You see the car company's fixed rate in writing before saying yes, and the possible additions are the ones printed beside the figure at the top. All twenty-two ZIPs are side by side on airport transfer rates to PHL by ZIP code.