Ealing Minicabs cover the W5 and W13 postcodes around Ealing Broadway, Walpole Park and out towards West Ealing. Being one of the closest of our coverage areas to Heathrow shapes almost everything about how we run bookings here, from pricing to how tight a pickup window we're willing to offer.
Heathrow from Ealing is genuinely quick — usually 15 to 20 minutes off-peak via the A40 and the A312, or the A4 if traffic on the Uxbridge Road is heavy. Because the run is so short, Ealing is one of the few areas where we can comfortably offer a pickup as late as 90 minutes before a short-haul flight and still expect you to make it through security in good time.
Gatwick is a longer trip at 50 to 60 minutes, usually via the A406 North Circular or A4 to the M4, then across to the M25 and down to the M23. It's not a route we can shortcut given Ealing's position on the west side of London, so we always quote it as a proper cross-town journey rather than downplaying the time. Drivers generally prefer the M4 approach over the North Circular during the day, switching to the North Circular only when the M4 itself is reporting delays.
Luton is a reasonable run via the A40 and M25, comparable in time to Gatwick. Stansted and London City both mean crossing London more fully, so we treat those as flight-tracked fixed-price bookings rather than estimating a specific window.
Because Heathrow is so close, a quote for the Heathrow run tends to be one of our lower fixed prices — we don't inflate it just because the area has strong demand for airport runs. The same fixed-price principle applies to the longer Gatwick and Luton journeys, so there's no penalty for booking the less convenient airport.
For arrivals into Heathrow specifically, we can usually get a driver to you faster than areas further out, since the return leg from the airport back into Ealing is short.
The fleet includes saloons for quick solo Heathrow runs plus estates and MPVs for families or group travel, popular with the longer Gatwick and Luton bookings where extra luggage space matters more. Business travellers doing a regular Heathrow commute often stick with the same saloon option each time, since the short journey rarely needs anything larger.
This makes the most sense if Heathrow is your regular airport — the proximity means shorter fixed prices, more flexible pickup times, and drivers who know the A312/A40 junction well enough to route around it when it's blocked. That local knowledge carries over to the longer Gatwick and Luton runs too.
Very close — most transfers take 15 to 20 minutes off-peak, one of the shortest airport runs we offer.
Yes, given how short the run is, we can often accommodate later pickups than areas further from the airport.
Yes, though it's a longer cross-town journey of 50 to 60 minutes rather than a quick local run.
Yes, our W5 and W13 coverage includes both.
Yes, Luton is quoted as a fixed price via the A40 and M25.
Yes, it's one of our most frequent pickup and drop-off points in the area.
We also run fixed-price minicabs from Acton, Hanwell, Greenford, Northolt, and cover all five London airports — Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport, Luton Airport, Stansted Airport, London City Airport — plus central London stations including Paddington Station, Waterloo Station, Victoria Station. See our full list of areas covered for the complete picture.