The arithmetic, published.

$60.00 base + $3.30 per kilometre + $1.32 NSW Passenger Service Levy.

The base covers what does not vary with distance: the car being somewhere at a specific minute, the driver's time either side, the airport access and parking, and the dead running to and from the pickup. The per-kilometre rate covers the driving. The levy is set by the NSW Point to Point Transport Commissioner and applies to every booked point-to-point trip in the state.

Tolls, GST and airport fees are inside that figure, not added to it. There is no time component, no vehicle-class uplift, no peak multiplier and no booking fee.

$120. No journey is quoted below it, however short.

Sydney Airport to the CBD is the case where this bites: eleven kilometres works out to $97.62, and the minimum applies instead. It is the only route on this site where the published fare is above what the formula alone produces, and the receipt shows a line called Minimum fare rather than folding the difference into the rounding.

A short run still means the car, the chauffeur, the airport access and an hour of somebody's day.

This is the part most operators would not publish.

Distance stops being a fair basis somewhere past about a hundred kilometres. Priced strictly at $3.30 a kilometre, Orange at 250 km would be $886.32 and Bathurst at 200 km would be $721.32 — numbers nobody would book. The published fares are $799 and $699.

So the formula is the ceiling, not the floor. Published corridor fares sit at or below it, and the receipt records the difference as a line item rather than presenting the lower figure as though the formula had produced it.

It never runs the other way. A build test on this website refuses to publish any fare above what the formula would charge, because a receipt showing a positive adjustment reads as a surcharge — and a surcharge is the thing this business does not have.

One way doubled, then 10 percent off, rounded to the nearest $5. The same chauffeur drives both legs.

Wollongong at $341 each way is $615 return. Kiama at $408 is $735. Nowra at $510 is $920.

Ten percent rather than something larger because a return is not twice the work — but it is close. The car makes the same round trip either way; what the return booking removes is the risk of it sitting idle between two separate jobs.

The rule is arithmetic rather than a negotiation, which is exactly why it can be printed. Toggle any fare on this site to a return and the receipt shows the subtraction.

Every address in New South Wales gets a fixed number immediately. The formula runs on the road distance and the result locks at booking in exactly the way a published fare does.

There is no version of this where you are told the price will be confirmed later, and no suburb that gets a shrug instead of a figure.

The published ladder exists because fifty-seven destinations are booked often enough to be worth listing, not because the rest are outside the area.

Three things, all of them agreed before travel rather than discovered afterwards.

Waiting beyond the free allowance. Two hours are free on international arrivals at T1 and one hour on domestic at T2 and T3, measured from when the aircraft actually lands. Beyond that, an hourly rate agreed at booking.

A stop that was not named at booking. Adding one changes the journey, so it changes the quote — before it happens, not on the invoice.

A venue that charges for its own drop-off. Rare, and passed through at cost rather than marked up.

That is the complete list. Nothing else can move the figure, because nothing else exists to move it.

Because the alternative is asking to be trusted, and this business has three Google reviews. Trust is not available in the quantities required.

A published formula, a published ladder and an itemised receipt let a first-time visitor verify the claim in about thirty seconds without knowing anything about us. That is a better foundation than a badge.