Once your flight is set, reserve a Long Beach Airport transfer from Irvine to the one terminal

Timing the 29-minute run from Irvine

The pickup time on the form is when the car should stand at your door. From the center of Irvine the road run is 23.3 miles, about 29 minutes when traffic flows freely, so leave room for a slower road. Every company accepts in writing, before it receives rides, a free wait of 15 minutes at the pickup address.

With one terminal, the company's driver takes you straight to it. Before passing the booking on, the desk makes sure the company's state permit is active and in good standing and that it holds a permit for this airport. The company's fare already holds the drive, fuel, the airport's fee for the trip, tolls on the route it picks and any service charge; a tip is up to you.

Bags in hand, out to the median strip

The ride home is its own request with its own written fare, sent separately, and there the form asks when the flight lands. Pickup here is curbside, on the median strip in front of the terminal: you collect your bags, wheel them out, and the company's driver loads them at the car. The confirmation names that meeting point and a number for the company on the day.

The free wait counts from the moment the flight actually lands, 60 minutes after a domestic flight and 90 minutes after an international arrival; the flight number tells the company which. Waiting past that is charged only if you ask for it, at the rate the written fare names, as its own line, and the whole written fare still stays within $250 for the car. If the company cancels or its car does not come, you owe nothing.

Form fields that shape a Long Beach reply

The load comes first on the form, and a line under the counts works out the smallest car size to ask for. Each request goes to one car: a sedan for up to 3 riders, an SUV for up to 6, or up to 4 with the third row folded for long gear. A bodyboard bag or a dive bag goes on the suitcase slider. For surfboard bags the desk asks each company first, since not every company carries one.

Until you accept a fare, companies asked about a car see only the date, time, town, airport, riders, load and any child seats or extra stop you ask for. Your name, phone, email and note go to the one company you accept, so a note with each child's age and seat reaches the company that brings the seat. Seats have a page of their own: airport transfer with car seats in Orange County. At this airport these answers do the most work:

• Flight number, since the free wait starts when that flight lands
• Pickup time going out, or the landing time coming home
• Town, which picks your row in the town table on this page
• Child seats, so any charge for one shows in the written fare
• Mobile number, where the written fare arrives by text

The shortest run is from Seal Beach

By road, this airport is the nearest of the three to Seal Beach, 6.7 miles away, and about as near as John Wayne Airport to Westminster and Garden Grove. From the center of Irvine the run here is 23.3 miles, about 29 minutes, against 43.3 miles, about 54 minutes, to LAX, both in free-flowing traffic. Once your town is on the covered list, reserve the ride.

The town table on this page gives every covered town its miles, minutes and this airport's sedan and SUV figure, the most a company may charge through the desk for the ride itself; the SUV figure also covers an SUV with its third row folded. Across towns, figures run from $125 for the car, one way, by sedan from Seal Beach up to $190 for the car, one way, by SUV from Laguna Hills, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach. Extras you ask for come on their own lines, and the total stays within $250 for the car.

Fare figures set on September 27, 2026, from the fares that car companies in the area publish. A company's written fare for the ride itself, for the same town, airport and car size, is the same or lower; extras you ask for are listed on their own lines.