Kochi · COK · T1 · T3
Private cars from Cochin airport (COK) to Ernakulam, Fort Kochi, Alappuzha or Munnar, with a named chauffeur, your flight tracked and a full quote before you pay.
Nothing is charged until you accept the quote.
At a glance
Cochin International Airport is at Nedumbassery, north-east of the city and roughly 30 km by road from Ernakulam, so every landing at Kochi is followed by a proper drive: commonly an hour into the city at busy times, and three hours or more up to Munnar. International flights use Terminal 3 and domestic flights Terminal 1. We arrange a private transfer with a named chauffeur, track your flight and send a full quote, usually within two hours, before you pay. The company’s India office is in Kochi, though every booking is made online.
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Every journey is quoted on its own rather than sold from a price list, so the figure you receive is for your booking. These are the things that move it. Nothing is charged until you accept the quote. Tolls, where they apply, are either included in it or shown in it as an additional charge, and heavy traffic does not change the quoted price.
When you land
Scheduled international flights use Terminal 3 and domestic flights Terminal 1, two separate buildings on the same airport. This is what happens between the aircraft door and the road south, including the small-hours arrivals from the Gulf.
Send your flight number, and the terminal printed on your ticket, when you request the quote. Your flight is then tracked live, so a late departure from Dubai or Doha moves the pickup with it.
Every international arrival clears immigration before the baggage hall. Indian nationals and OCI cardholders enrolled in the government’s Fast Track Immigration programme (FTI-TTP) can use the e-gates at Cochin; everyone else uses the counters, where queues can build when several Gulf flights land within the same hour.
Heavy checked baggage is normal on Gulf routes, and the belts are slowest when several flights unload together. If the belt or a customs check is holding you up, message the booking desk, which answers around the clock, and your chauffeur is told.
Your chauffeur is named before pickup, and the booking desk tells you where to meet. Keep your phone on once you land: a passenger who has not reached the meeting point within the waiting time and cannot be contacted is treated as a no-show.
The airport road meets NH 544 at Athani, and the highway runs south through Aluva and Kalamassery to Edappally. For Marine Drive the quicker line is often the tolled Container Road (NH 966A) from Kalamassery; for Kakkanad it is the Seaport–Airport Road. Whichever way the traffic sends you, it does not change the quoted price.
Check the terminal on your ticket before you travel, and tell the booking desk which one when you request the quote: Terminal 3 for international, Terminal 1 for domestic. If the airline retimes or moves your flight, send the new details straight away.
From the airport
The distances and drive times below are approximate road figures from the airport, checked in September 2026; city traffic and monsoon rain can stretch any of them. A run between two towns with no airport involved is booked point to point, with one quote per run, and a day of stops with a car held by the hour.
The commercial heart of Kochi, about 30 to 35 km south-west of the airport: allow around an hour when traffic is heavy, less late at night. MG Road runs through the centre, and Marine Drive is the promenade facing the backwaters, from the High Court junction to Rajendra Maidan.
Across the harbour from Ernakulam, roughly 37 to 45 km from the airport depending on the route, and often more than an hour in daytime traffic. The old streets, the Chinese fishing nets and Mattancherry’s heritage quarter suit an hourly booking, and the Water Metro links both with Ernakulam’s High Court jetty.
The IT district and the Ernakulam district headquarters, about 7 km east of the city centre and roughly 28 km from the airport, often an hour in evening traffic. The metro extension to Kakkanad and Infopark was still under construction in September 2026, with opening reported for 2027. For staff and visiting clients on regular runs there is a corporate account.
Alappuzha, the Alleppey of houseboat fame, is about 83 km south by NH 66, usually two to two and a half hours. Kumarakom, on the Kottayam side of Vembanad Lake, is about 75 to 80 km and usually takes just as long. Houseboats board from different jetties, so send the exact boarding point.
About 110 km and usually three to three and a half hours by NH 85 through Kothamangalam, Neriamangalam and Adimali, with the last stretch climbing through the Western Ghats to a town at about 1,600 m. Bends, mist and, in the monsoon, heavy rain slow the final hour.
The gateway to the Periyar Tiger Reserve, beside Kumily near the Tamil Nadu border: about 145 to 165 km from the airport depending on the road, and four and a half hours or more. From Munnar it is about 90 km and roughly three hours, booked as its own run.
COK
Run by Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), it was the first airport in India built as a public-private partnership, and in 2015 it became the world’s first fully solar-powered airport. It lies about 500 m from the Periyar river and 5 km from the NH 544 junction at Athani, with Angamaly railway station about 5 km away and the nearest metro station at Aluva.
Terminals Terminal 1 for every domestic flight, Terminal 3 for international flights and Terminal 2 for business jets, all on the one airport site at Nedumbassery
Get a COK quoteServices
From Terminal 3 or Terminal 1 to a home in Ernakulam, a hotel in Fort Kochi or a resort on the backwaters, timed to your flight as it is tracked live.
From your door to COK, with the pickup timed back from your check-in cut-off and the traffic on NH 544 and the terminal drop-off built in.
Between Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 when a domestic flight on a separate ticket meets an international one. Send the onward departure with your request.
A car and chauffeur held by the hour for a day of stops, such as Fort Kochi, Mattancherry and the city, with the car staying with you between them.
One run between two addresses, quoted on its own, with no airport involved, such as Ernakulam to Alappuzha or Munnar to Thekkady, one-way or return.
How it works
Your flight, pickup and drop-off, passengers and bags, using the form below.
Usually within two hours, with any late-night, public holiday or short-notice charges shown. Nothing is charged until you accept it.
By secure payment link or bank transfer. Card details never reach this website.
Confirmed once paid, and the booking desk shares your voucher.
Questions
Terminal 3 if you are on an international flight, Terminal 1 if you are flying within India; Terminal 2 is used by business jets. Look at the terminal shown on your ticket, tell us which one when you request the quote, and send the new details if your airline changes anything.
By road, in most cases: Ernakulam is about 30 to 35 km south-west, commonly around an hour when traffic is heavy. A prepaid taxi service, run through a cooperative society controlled by the airport operator, has counters at both terminals and is a sensible choice if you have not booked ahead, and by day a KMRL feeder bus connects with the metro at Aluva, which suits travellers with light bags. A pre-booked transfer is the calmer option after a night flight or with family luggage: a named chauffeur, your flight tracked and a full quote before you pay.
Cochin International (COK) is the nearest airport to Munnar, about 110 km away by road. The drive usually takes three to three and a half hours on NH 85, more in heavy rain, and it is quoted as a single arrival transfer from the terminal to your address in the hills.
By road, about 83 km on NH 66, usually two to two and a half hours depending on traffic through Kochi and any roadworks. If you are boarding a houseboat the same day, give us the boarding point and the time the boat expects you, so the drop-off is the right jetty and you can judge whether the boat’s time leaves enough margin after your flight’s arrival.
Yes. Kochi sees a run of Gulf arrivals between about 1am and 6am, and a small-hours landing is booked and timed to the flight like any other, with any late-night charge named in the quote before you pay. If immigration or the belt is slow, message the booking desk, which answers 24 hours a day; waiting beyond the included time can carry an extra charge.
Yes, as an hourly booking for a day of stops, or as separate point-to-point runs between towns rather than a tour. The hourly chauffeur keeps a car and chauffeur with you for a block of hours, which suits Fort Kochi and Mattancherry. Munnar to Thekkady is one run, quoted on its own, with its own pickup time and address.
It can. The south-west monsoon usually reaches Kerala around the start of June, and about two-thirds of the year’s rain falls between June and August: city roads slow down, and stretches of the hill roads to Munnar and Thekkady can close after heavy rain or a landslip. In August 2018 floodwater closed the airport itself for about two weeks. For a departure in the rains, ask for an earlier pickup to allow for slow roads.
Yes, up to 48 hours before your flight under the standard policy, less any costs already incurred; a few airports and services differ. Inside 48 hours the full charge applies under the standard policy, so if your airline retimes a Gulf flight, tell the booking desk as soon as you know. A delay on the day itself is handled by flight tracking: the pickup moves with the actual arrival.
Waiting time, changes, cancellations and refunds are set out in full in our Terms & Conditions.
Request a transfer
Under five minutes to complete. We come back with a full quote, usually within two hours. Nothing is charged until you accept the quote.
