Getting the departure time wrong is one of the most common ways a business trip starts badly. Leave too late and a colleague misses a flight; leave too early and they lose half a morning sitting in a terminal.
e-Wave Green Airport Transfers has published a free departure planner for Cambridge travellers. It is based on the airports' own arrival guidance and the drive times its drivers see every day. As a guide, for a 10:00 short-haul flight on a weekday:
- Stansted: leave Cambridge by about 07:05
- Heathrow: leave by about 05:45
- Gatwick: leave by about 05:00
For long-haul flights, leave an hour earlier. The M25 is where most delays happen, so the planner includes peak-time buffers, early-morning flight advice and adjustments for travellers leaving from Huntingdon, St Neots, St Ives and Cambourne.
e-Wave runs fully electric executive airport transfers for Cambridge organisations, with flight monitoring, fixed prices and corporate accounts. Every journey contributes to a tree planted through Ecologi, which supports companies reporting Scope 3 travel emissions.
Read the full departure planner: https://e-wave.co.uk/blog-what-time-to-leave-for-the-airport-cambridge/?utm_source=cambridge-network
