SFO · Oakland · San José · San Carlos
Black car service in San Francisco
A meeting in the Financial District and one in Palo Alto are not the same day’s work.
| Route | Off-peak | Peak | Sedan | SUV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO → Financial District | 25–35 min | 45–65 min | $175.33 | $200.33 |
| Oakland → Financial District | 30–40 min | 55–75 min | Quoted | Quoted |
| SFO → SoMa | 20–30 min | 40–60 min | Quoted | Quoted |
| By the hour | 3-hour minimum | from $114/hr | Quoted | |
Weekday afternoon examples from our quote engine, Oct 2026, including the 20% chauffeur gratuity, tolls, parking, airport fees, surcharges and taxes. Your quote is confirmed in writing and held for 72 hours.
The airport access fee is shown on its own line and already in the total.
Sedan: up to 3 passengers and 3 bags. SUV: up to 6 passengers and 6 bags.
Booking in San Francisco
A meeting in the Financial District and one in Palo Alto are not the same day’s work. The vehicle is held between them rather than re-dispatched. Chauffeured sedans and SUVs across San Francisco and the wider Bay Area — three commercial airports serving three different parts of the region, and a corporate map that runs forty miles down the Peninsula rather than sitting in one downtown. Booked and managed by Executive Black Car, driven by vetted local operators who work these roads every day.
- Gratuity and airport fees included
- Rate agreed in writing, no surge pricing
- Free cancellation up to 2 hours before pickup
- Free waiting: 60 minutes at airports, 15 minutes elsewhere
Booking for someone else
- With a corporate account, confirmation and chauffeur details go to you and, if you want, the traveller
- Cost centre or PO on the invoice, with a corporate account
- One monthly invoice across all 27 cities — open a corporate account
Travelling yourself
- Meet-and-greet at arrivals; your flight is tracked, so early and late landings are handled
- One number, answered 24/7: 1-866-EXEC230
Every operator must hold
- Licensed and permitted for the city and its airports
- $1M combined single limit, certificate on file naming Karfis Enterprises LLC
- Background and driving-record checks, attested
- Two vehicle classes, the same in every city
Choose your trip
Airport transfers
SFO, Oakland and San Jose — and which one fits your day
Corporate & roadshows
Investor roadshows, Sand Hill Road and the valley campuses
Private aviation
SFO, Oakland, San Jose and the peninsula fields
Hotel transfers
Nob Hill, Union Square, SoMa and the peninsula
Events & venues
Moscone, Chase Center, Oracle Park and the valley venues
Universities & campuses
Stanford, Berkeley, UCSF and the peninsula campuses
Airport guide
SFO vs Oakland vs San Jose: The Financial District, SoMa, the Peninsula, Silicon Valley and the East Bay.
San Francisco airports
San Francisco International (SFO)
Four terminals with the international terminal sitting between the domestic ones, and an arrivals level that works well provided the terminal is right. SFO’s particular hazard is its runways: the two parallel runways are only 750 feet apart, so arrivals are restricted, and low cloud slows them further. Delays can run to hours rather than minutes without the departure board necessarily admitting it early. We watch the inbound aircraft, not the schedule.
Terminals 1, 2 & 3 · International Terminal · Fog-aware scheduling
Oakland (OAK)
Across the bay and frequently quicker than SFO for anyone staying in the East Bay or the northern part of the region. The bridge is the variable — an Oakland run to downtown San Francisco is straightforward at most hours and genuinely slow at the wrong one. Oakland’s compact arrivals area is among the easiest pickups in the Bay Area.
East Bay advantage · Bridge-aware timing · Simple arrivals
San José Mineta (SJC)
The right airport for anyone actually working in Silicon Valley, and consistently underused by visitors who book into SFO out of habit. From SJC to Palo Alto, Mountain View or Cupertino is a short and predictable drive, where the same destinations from SFO mean committing to the 101. We will tell you when SJC is the better arrival point, because it usually is if your meetings are south of Redwood City.
Silicon Valley · Shorter transfers · Predictable timing
Private aviation
Bay Area private traffic is well distributed — San Carlos and Palo Alto serve the mid-Peninsula, San José handles larger aircraft for the south bay, and Oakland and Hayward cover the east. Which field suits you depends almost entirely on where the meetings are. For private arrivals we work from the tail number and coordinate with the FBO directly. Tell us the field and the FBO when you book and we will confirm coverage before you travel.
FBO ramp pickups · Crew coordination
Where we work in San Francisco
Financial District & SoMa
Most city work here is airport runs and the Peninsula. The city’s corporate core, with SoMa now carrying as much of the technology work as the Financial District carries of the finance. Both are compact and walkable, which means most of our city work is not intra-city travel but airport transfers and runs down the Peninsula.
The Peninsula corridor
The 280 is often faster in practice. Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City and Mountain View form a continuous corporate corridor along the 101 and the 280, and a great deal of Bay Area executive travel never touches San Francisco at all. The 280 is slower on paper and frequently faster in practice.
The South Bay
San José Mineta is usually the better arrival. Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and San José sit far enough south that SFO stops being the obvious airport and San José Mineta usually becomes the better arrival. We cover the whole of the valley, and the South Bay has its own page with the airport comparison, the campus-access detail and its own journey times: black car service in San José.
The East Bay
Oakland often saves crossing the bay twice. Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, plus the corporate presence along the 680 corridor. For East Bay work we will often recommend Oakland rather than SFO simply to avoid making the crossing twice in a day.
Napa, Sonoma & long-distance
Wine country is a day booking, not a transfer. Wine country runs are a steady part of Bay Area work, usually as a full day rather than a transfer, and hourly hire is the sensible structure for them. Sacramento, Monterey and Lake Tahoe are quoted per trip.
Typical journey times across the Bay Area
The Peninsula commute is the defining constraint here.
| From | Approx. distance | Off-peak | Allow in peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| Financial District to SFO | 14 miles | 25–35 min | 45–65 min |
| SoMa to SFO | 13 miles | 20–30 min | 40–60 min |
| Financial District to Oakland | 19 miles | 30–40 min | 55–75 min |
| Palo Alto to SFO | 22 miles | 30–40 min | 55–75 min |
| Mountain View to SFO | 28 miles | 35–45 min | 65–85 min |
| San Francisco to San Jose | 48 miles | 60–75 min | 95–125 min |
Hotels, venues and campuses we run to
Hotel transfers in San Francisco
Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park is where a great deal of venture business actually happens, and it is an hour from the city in traffic — worth knowing before a day is scheduled across both. Nob Hill’s approaches are steep and narrow; we use the level entrance where one exists.
Events & venues in San Francisco
Levi’s Stadium and Shoreline are both down the Peninsula rather than in the city, so an event there is a forty-mile round trip from a San Francisco hotel. We say so at booking rather than after.
Wine country days run long and rarely to plan, which is exactly why hourly hire suits them and a fixed transfer does not. The bridge crossing northbound on a Friday afternoon is the part that catches people out.
- Moscone Center
- Chase Center
- Oracle Park
- Davies Symphony Hall
- War Memorial Opera House
- SFMOMA
- Levi’s Stadium
- Shoreline Amphitheatre
Wine country, the coast and the region
- Muir Woods
- Napa Valley
- Sonoma
- Half Moon Bay
- Monterey & Carmel
- Lake Tahoe
- Sacramento
Universities & campuses in San Francisco
Stanford’s campus is closed to through traffic in places and the visitor entrances are not where a mapping application sends you. Commencement and reunion weekends change the roads around Palo Alto entirely and are worth booking well ahead.
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