How we make money

The arrangement, plainly

TransferSelect does not sell transfers. We are not a taxi firm, a transfer operator or a booking agent, and no money changes hands on this site. When an option is bookable through a commercial partner, we link you to that partner, and if you go on to book, the partner may pay us a commission on that sale.

You pay the provider's normal price. We do not add anything to it, and we have no mechanism to: the link we send you to is the provider's own, with their tracking attached. We also do not control what providers charge, so we will not claim their price is always the best available — only that following our link is not what makes it higher.

Who actually pays us

At the time of writing, one provider has an active affiliate relationship with TransferSelect: Viator, which supplies private airport transfer products. That is the whole list. If a route page shows a bookable private transfer, that is where the link goes and that is who might pay us.

Other partners appear in our systems as planned rather than active, and they earn us nothing today. We would rather say this plainly than describe a partner network we do not have. Coverage may grow, and this page will say so when it does.

Everything else on a route page — the coach, the taxi, the official tariffs, the walking distance from a bus stop — earns us nothing at all.

Why commission cannot pick the recommendation

This is the claim that matters, so here is why it holds rather than just an assurance that it does.

The comparison includes options that pay us nothing, on equal terms.Scheduled buses, official taxi tariffs and other public transport appear in the same table with the same detail as the bookable option. On the one route we have published, the cheapest option is the coach — which earns us nothing — and it carries the "cheapest" label accordingly.

Recommendations are computed from route facts, not from who pays.Which option is cheapest comes from the recorded fares. Which suits families or a late arrival comes from recorded characteristics of each option. The commercial layer is not an input to any of it. Where the facts do not support a single overall winner, no winner is shown, even though a bookable option is sitting right there and naming it would earn more. How we compare covers this in detail.

We decline to publish a provider price when it would mislead. A provider figure that would have flattered the paid option was withheld precisely because it was not comparable with the coach fare next to it. Seeprice methodology.

Where commercial offers can appear

A commercial offer has to be the right kind of product for the place it appears. Only genuine airport-transfer inventory can enter a transfer comparison or a transfer method section; an accommodation or activities partner structurally cannot, whatever it might pay.

Offers are also subordinate to the comparison in the layout. The decision comes first and the booking option sits inside the relevant section beneath it, rather than interrupting the page. We do not use countdowns, fake scarcity, invented discounts or repeated banners, and we do not pad transfer pages with unrelated travel products because they happen to be monetisable.

How you can tell

Commercial links are marked as sponsored for search engines, open in a new tab, and carry a short disclosure next to the first offer on a page as well as in the footer. If a link earns us money, we say so where you are deciding whether to click it, not only in the small print.

Why we are telling you this

An airport transfer comparison is worth reading only if the recommendation survives contact with the commercial incentive. The most valuable thing we have is that our answer would be the same if nobody paid us — which is why the cheapest option on our launch route is one we earn nothing from, and why we say so on the page rather than burying it here.