THE TRANSFER BRIEF | Issue 03 | September 2026 | from My London Transfer
September flips London from holiday mode to work mode almost overnight. ExCeL and Olympia fill up the London Conference season , delegates fly in from everywhere, and the cars that move them get booked out first. A little forward planning is the difference between a smooth arrival and a session that starts late.
Why Does September Get So Tight So Fast?
Because everyone’s diary refills at the same time. Summer empties the city, then the first full week back stacks conferences, client visits and board travel into the same handful of days. The dependable vehicles and drivers go early, so leaving it late means paying more for less. Book the week you know is coming, not the morning it arrives.
What Actually Goes Wrong With Delegate Travel?
It is rarely the flight. It is the last mile. A speaker lands at Heathrow on time, then burns 40 minutes hunting for a random cab. A group of eight arrives and finds a five-seater waiting, so now it is two cars and two fares. Multiply that across a delegation and the schedule slips before anyone reaches the venue. One booking, one point of contact and a vehicle sized to the group quietly removes all of it.
How Do You Keep Airport-to-Venue Runs Predictable?
Book the whole leg, not just the airport when travelling for the London Conference season. A fixed fare from the terminal to ExCeL or Olympia, a meet-and-greet inside arrivals, and a driver who tracks the flight so a delay never becomes a missed pickup. For several trips across the month, a corporate account folds every run into one invoice instead of a drawer full of receipts.
Disruption Watch
East London around ExCeL gets heavy on big event days, and the approaches to Olympia back up fast at drop-off and pickup peaks. Add the usual autumn weekend rail engineering on the airport links. Build slack into anything that is venue-timed, and give arriving guests a set meeting point rather than a kerbside guess.
Date For The Diary
The middle of the month is the real crunch. London Design Festival runs 12 to 20 September and London Fashion Week 17 to 21, both landing on the same few days across central and west London. If you have client or airport travel that week, the next issue is worth a read before you book.
The Takeaway
The London Conference season rewards the organised and punishes the last-minute. Size the vehicle to the group, book the airport-to-venue leg as one fixed fare, and let the driver watch the flight. Get a quote for your September runs before the calendar fills up.
Moving delegates or execs all month? A corporate account keeps every transfer on one simple invoice, with priority when the diary gets tight.
