When to leave to collect someone

We take the flight's latest arrival estimate, add a realistic allowance for the passenger to get off the plane and reach the kerbside, then subtract your traffic-aware driving time and a few minutes to get into the airport pickup area. What's left is the time you should set off.

Yes. We use the estimated arrival time rather than the scheduled one, and the recommendation updates while the page is open if that estimate moves.

Yes. Drive times come from a traffic-aware routing service using your starting point and the arrival airport. If that service is briefly unavailable we fall back to a standard estimate and say so on screen.

No. You can type something like “Ibiza to Manchester around 11:15 tonight” and we'll show you the real matching flights to pick from. The flight number is faster if you have it.

Your device’s location is sent to work out your drive time and is not saved to any database. A postcode or address you type is sent the same way, and your own browser keeps it with the flight you’re meeting. Forget on the card removes it, and so does coming back to the pick-up planner more than six hours after it lands. Analytics never gets your device’s location. If you accepted Google Analytics cookies, it can see a postcode or address you type, because that is in your result’s web address.

Yes, PlanMyFlight is free to use. There's no account.