Airport pickup calculator
Find out exactly when to leave for an airport pickup
Enter the flight and your starting point. This free calculator uses the drive, deplaning, baggage, immigration, and where you plan to meet to give you a specific leave time.
Picking up family, a friend, or a colleague?
Whether you are meeting your wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend, daughter, son, parent, cousin, another family member, a friend, or a colleague, the useful question is the same: when will they actually reach the pickup area, and when should you begin driving?
The relationship is optional because it does not change the timing. Choose it only if you want the saved calendar event to say who you are picking up. One strong calculator answers these closely related questions more completely than a collection of repetitive pages.
Why you should not leave when the flight lands
Scheduled landing is usually the gate arrival—not the moment your passenger reaches the curb. Getting off the plane and walking to arrivals takes time. Checked baggage and immigration can add considerably more. For curbside pickup, arriving a few minutes after they are ready is often better than circling while they are still inside.
Put the moment to leave where you will act on it
Add the calculated departure to your calendar. OnTimer can turn that event into an automatic calendar alarm, making the moment to start driving harder to miss.
Flying instead? Use the airport time-to-leave calculator to plan your own departure.
Popular airport pickup calculators
These airport-specific calculators keep the same leave-time workflow and add reviewed local pickup and waiting guidance.