OSPIPO
The service · not the route
A chauffeur is a person, not a category.
Every booking here is driven by Parag Sharma, under NSW Booking Service Provider authorisation BSP-462516, at a published fixed fare — $120 to the CBD, $341 to Wollongong, $510 to Nowra. Not whoever is nearest, not a partner operator, not a name you learn 5 minutes before pickup.
- Fixed fare
- $120
- both directions, all-inclusive
- Distance
- 11 km
- by road, Sydney and the South Coast
- Typical drive
- 25m
- 25 minutes outside peak
Your fixed fare
Available- Base fare $60.00
- Distance11 km at $3.30/km $36.30
- NSW Passenger Service Levy $1.32
- Motorway tolls included
- Airport pickup and parking included
- Meet and greet inside the terminal included
- GST (10%) included
- Minimum fareno journey is quoted below this $22.38
Booking lodged
The arithmetic
What the word is worth.
A chauffeur booking and a rideshare booking are different products. The receipt is one of the places you can see it.
- Base fare $60.00
- Distance11 km at $3.30/km $36.30
- NSW Passenger Service Levy $1.32
- Motorway tolls included
- Airport pickup and parking included
- Meet and greet inside the terminal included
- GST (10%) included
- Minimum fareno journey is quoted below this $22.38
- Base fare $60.00
- Distance11 km at $3.30/km $36.30
- NSW Passenger Service Levy $1.32
- Motorway tolls included
- Airport pickup and parking included
- Meet and greet inside the terminal included
- GST (10%) included
- Minimum fareno journey is quoted below this $22.38
- One-way fixed total $120.00
- Return legsame chauffeur, same car $120.00
- Return discount10% off the doubled fare −$24.00
- Rounded to the nearest $5 −$1.00
Everything in this receipt was agreed before the car moved. There is no meter, no surge multiplier, no airport surcharge appended at the kerb, and no field anywhere in the system capable of adding one.
What the fare covers
Included, and not.
Inside the published fare
- Every motorway toll on the route
- GST
- The NSW Passenger Service Levy
- Airport access and parking
- Meet and greet inside the terminal with a name sign
- Help with your bags at both ends
- Flight tracking, with the pickup moved to the actual landing time
- Two hours of waiting on international arrivals, one hour on domestic
- Child seats, fitted and checked, on request
- Bottled water and a phone charger at every seat
Not included, and never quietly added
- Meals, and any stop long enough to eat one
- Extra waiting beyond the free allowance, charged at the hourly rate agreed at booking
- Additional stops not named at booking
- Parking or entry fees at a private venue that charges them
- Anything the car physically cannot carry — see the capacity note
Departure timing
When the car has to be at your door.
Worked backwards from the flight, not forwards from a guess. Every row uses the same 25-minute drive time published at the top of this page.
| Flight departs | Terminal | Be at the airport | Pick-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 domestic | T2 / T3 | 04:00 | 03:25 |
| 07:00 international | T1 | 04:00 | 03:25 |
| 08:00 domestic | T2 / T3 | 06:00 | 05:25 |
| 09:30 international | T1 | 06:30 | 05:35 |
| 13:00 domestic | T2 / T3 | 11:00 | 10:25 |
| 17:00 international | T1 | 14:00 | 13:25 |
| 21:00 domestic | T2 / T3 | 19:00 | 18:25 |
Worked from 25 minutes of driving, plus 10 minutes to load at the kerb, plus 3 hours inside the terminal for an international departure and 2 hours for a domestic one. A 20-minute allowance is added where the drive runs through the morning peak. Arriving instead of departing? Then none of this applies: give the flight number and the pickup moves to the actual landing time, with 2 hours free at T1 and 1 hour at T2 and T3.
The corridor
What a fleet does, and what this does not.
A large operator sells availability. Hundreds of vehicles, dozens of subcontracted drivers, three anonymous vehicle classes, and a price that firms up once you commit. That is a perfectly reasonable business, and it is the right answer when you need a car in an unfamiliar city in twenty minutes.
It is the wrong answer for a Tuesday morning you have booked a fortnight ahead. What you are buying then is not availability but recurrence: the same person, who knows the route, the preferred terminal, the coffee stop and the quiet.
So this is the inverse of a fleet, on purpose. One car. One chauffeur. One published price. The cost of that is honest and stated everywhere on this site: there is a diary, and sometimes the answer is that the car is already somewhere else.
The rest is what the word has always meant. A suit. The door, at both ends. The bags carried rather than pointed at. The cabin already at temperature. Meet and greet inside the terminal at the arrivals gate with a name sign, included rather than upsold. Eight years of doing it, under a NSW Booking Service Provider licence you can look up.
You want a car in twenty minutes
Use a rideshare. Three hours is the minimum notice this system takes, and under that it needs a phone call and some luck about where the car currently is.
You need four seats or three large cases
This is the wrong vehicle and you will be told so rather than sold a booking that does not fit.
You fly the same route monthly
This is what the business is built for. Connect the MCP connector once and every future booking is one sentence.
Your company needs an audit trail
One named driver, no subcontracting, a GST tax invoice per trip, and a compliance one-pager for the procurement file.
Nearby
Where the car goes.
Also collected from
This route
About the service.
Yes. Parag Sharma has driven every OSPIPO job for 8 years and drives yours, under NSW Booking Service Provider authorisation BSP-462516. There is no rotating pool, no partner operator and nothing subcontracted, so the name given when you book is the name at the kerb. Book 3 times in a year and the same person and the same car turn up 3 times.
Often not, and hearing it here beats working it out afterwards. For the 11 km into the city in daylight with hand luggage, the train takes about 13 minutes and costs a fraction of a chauffeur fare. A car earns its place at a 04:00 departure, with 2 large checked suitcases, on a night arrival, or when the traveller would rather be met at the gate than find a platform.
Yes. NSW Point to Point Transport Booking Service Provider authorisation BSP-462516, issued by the Point to Point Transport Commissioner, operating a Class 1 Authorised Booking Vehicle. ABN 87 148 128 771.
Certificates of currency and check numbers are supplied on request, and there is a one-page compliance pack on the corporate page for procurement files.
Yes, and it happens most weeks. An assistant, an office manager, a family member or a ward coordinator gives the traveller's name, a mobile answered on the day, the 2 addresses and the time. Confirmation comes back personally, usually inside 30 minutes, and goes to whoever is actually travelling. No card details are taken from either of you and the trip is cancellable, free, right up to pickup.
Message or call +61 435 162 311 and it is changed, at no cost. A different date, a later hour, another address or a corrected flight number are all re-confirmed personally, usually inside 30 minutes, and the published fare for the new route applies unchanged. Cancelling is free at any point before pickup, because no card was taken and no money has moved. A moved pickup still needs 3 hours of notice, so send the change as soon as the plan shifts.
No question matches that. Try a shorter word, or ask the concierge.
Book it
One person. One car.
Two addresses, a date and a time. You see the whole number before you give a name.
Your fixed fare
Available- Base fare $60.00
- Distance11 km at $3.30/km $36.30
- NSW Passenger Service Levy $1.32
- Motorway tolls included
- Airport pickup and parking included
- Meet and greet inside the terminal included
- GST (10%) included
- Minimum fareno journey is quoted below this $22.38
Booking lodged