Medical Transport to Philadelphia Airport (PHL) from South Jersey
If you live in Camden, Gloucester, or Burlington County, Philadelphia International is your home airport — 20 to 45 minutes over the Walt Whitman or Ben Franklin Bridge, while Newark is a 1.5-to-2-hour Turnpike haul each way. Delta provides door-to-terminal wheelchair van and medical transport from all six South Jersey counties to PHL, and meets returning travelers at arrivals.
For South Jersey, PHL Is the Home Airport
Look at a map and the logic is obvious: Philadelphia International sits just across the Delaware River, a few minutes down I-95 from the Walt Whitman Bridge. From Cherry Hill, Woodbury, or Mount Laurel, a traveler can be at the terminal curb before a Newark-bound van has even reached Exit 7 of the Turnpike. For an elderly or disabled traveler, that difference isn't a convenience — it's the difference between a short, manageable ride and three to four round-trip hours of highway that leave them exhausted before the flight even boards.
Yet this exact trip falls into a service gap. The medical transport companies based around PHL are Pennsylvania operators — their vans work Philadelphia and its suburbs, and most simply don't cross the river for a New Jersey home pickup. Meanwhile, North Jersey providers treat everything below Trenton as an afterthought. Delta closes that gap: we're a New Jersey non-emergency medical transport company that picks up at the patient's own front door anywhere in South Jersey and delivers them to the correct departures-level curb at PHL in a wheelchair-accessible van with a lift and full securements.
At the curb, the handoff works the same way it does at any U.S. airport: under the Air Carrier Access Act, the airline provides free wheelchair assistance from the curb to the gate whenever you request it. What no airline provides is the ride from a Voorhees living room to that curb — help out of the house, a secured chair, luggage loaded, the right terminal. That first mile is precisely what we do, and it's a scheduled, non-emergency service: no ambulance, no sirens, just an accessible van and a trained driver on a planned flight day.
Door-to-Terminal from All Six South Jersey Counties
Camden County
Cherry Hill, Camden, Voorhees, Gloucester Township, Pennsauken
Via the Walt Whitman or Ben Franklin Bridge — roughly 20–30 minutes to PHL, traffic depending.
Gloucester County
Woodbury, Washington Township, Glassboro, Deptford
Via the Walt Whitman Bridge from the north, Commodore Barry from the south — roughly 20–35 minutes to PHL, traffic depending.
Burlington County
Mount Laurel, Moorestown, Willingboro, Burlington City
Via the I-295 south to the Walt Whitman Bridge — roughly 30–45 minutes to PHL, traffic depending.
Salem County
Pennsville, Salem, Woodstown, Carneys Point
Via the Commodore Barry Bridge via Route 322 — roughly 35–50 minutes to PHL, traffic depending.
Cumberland County
Vineland, Millville, Bridgeton
Via the Route 55 north to Route 42 and the Walt Whitman — roughly 50–65 minutes to PHL, traffic depending.
Atlantic County
Atlantic City, Egg Harbor Township, Hammonton, Galloway
Via the Atlantic City Expressway to Route 42 and the Walt Whitman — roughly 55–80 minutes to PHL, traffic depending.
A departure day runs on a simple, unhurried script. When you book, we take the airline and flight time and work backward: PHL recommends about two hours before a domestic flight, we add a cushion for the curbside handoff, and we add a realistic traffic buffer for the bridge and I-95 at that hour. On the day, the driver arrives at the door, helps the traveler out of the house, secures their wheelchair (or one of ours) in the van, and loads the luggage — including the seasonal kind, when someone is heading south with half a household.
At PHL, the terminal letter matters less than it does at other airports — Terminals A through F sit under one connected roof — but the departures-level curb zone differs by airline, so we confirm the airline in advance and pull up at the right doors. The driver unloads, brings the traveler and bags to the curb check-in area, and stays until the airline's wheelchair assistance has taken over. Nobody gets dropped and left scanning the sidewalk. Bridge tolls, by the way, are already inside the quote — DRPA bridges only charge westbound into Pennsylvania, and that toll is baked into the single all-in price we give you up front.
PHL Arrivals: Meeting Travelers Coming Home to New Jersey
Half of our PHL work runs in the other direction. A parent flying back from a daughter's home in Florida. A patient returning from out-of-state treatment. A snowbird landing in late March after a winter in Fort Myers, tired, with a walker and two heavy bags, and no realistic way for the family in Sicklerville to manage the airport run with a wheelchair in a sedan. We take the airline and flight number when you book and track the flight itself — if it lands forty minutes late, our timing moves with it, so nobody sits at the curb waiting.
The sequence mirrors the departure in reverse. The airline's assistance staff bring the traveler off the plane, through baggage claim, and out to the arrivals-level curb. Our driver is waiting there with the accessible van, loads the traveler, their chair, and their luggage, and drives them back over the bridge — all the way to the front door, with help getting inside. For a traveler landing after a long flight, that last step matters as much as any: the trip isn't over at the curb, it's over when they're home.
Seasonal travelers are the rhythm of this route. PHL carries heavy nonstop service to Florida and the Southeast, which makes it the natural flight path for South Jersey snowbirds — and we book both legs at once: the October departure and the spring arrival, repeating each year as a standing arrangement. And for a snowbird who can't fly at all — too frail for the airport, oxygen-dependent, or unable to sit upright for hours in an airline seat — the alternative isn't giving up the winter; it's our snowbird medical transport service, which drives the whole journey door to door instead.
When Newark (EWR) Still Makes Sense for a South Jersey Traveler
We'd rather route you honestly than sell you the longer ride. For most South Jersey itineraries — Florida, the Carolinas, anywhere American Airlines flies nonstop from its PHL hub — Philadelphia wins on every count: shorter ride, calmer terminal transfer, less fatigue for the traveler. But there are real cases where Newark is still the right call. United's hub at EWR offers nonstops that simply don't exist from PHL, and on some international itineraries the routing or the fare difference is large enough to justify the extra ground time. A family member waiting at the other end near a particular airport can settle the question too.
The honest math for a Cherry Hill household: EWR is roughly 90 miles and 1.5 to 2 hours up the Turnpike each way, against 25 minutes to PHL. From northern Burlington County the gap narrows, and by Trenton it's close to a coin flip. Atlantic County travelers have a third option worth checking — Atlantic City International (ACY) is the closest airport of all for many shore-area residents, with limited but useful nonstop service to Florida, and we run that trip as well.
The point is that the airport should be chosen around the traveler, not around which transport company happens to answer the phone. We drive to both every week: this page covers the PHL run, and our Newark Airport (EWR) medical transport page covers the northern one. Call with the itinerary — flight options, traveler's stamina, who's meeting them — and we'll tell you plainly which airport makes the day easier, even when it's the shorter, cheaper ride for us to skip.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which South Jersey counties do you cover for PHL trips?
All six counties that naturally look to Philadelphia International as their airport: Camden, Gloucester, Burlington, Salem, Cumberland, and Atlantic. We pick up at private homes, senior communities, rehab centers, and hospitals anywhere in those counties and take travelers door to terminal at PHL. We serve the rest of New Jersey too — but for most of the rest of the state, Newark (EWR) is the closer airport, and we'll tell you so.
Are the Delaware River bridge tolls included in the quote?
Yes. Every PHL run from South Jersey crosses a Delaware River bridge — the Walt Whitman, Ben Franklin, or Commodore Barry — and those bridges charge a toll only in the westbound direction, into Pennsylvania. We fold that toll into the single all-in quote we give you before the trip. There is no toll surcharge added afterward and nothing to settle with the driver.
How early should we get to PHL for a domestic flight?
PHL and most airlines recommend arriving about two hours before a domestic departure. For a traveler who uses a wheelchair, we suggest adding an extra half hour so the curbside handoff to the airline's assistance staff, check-in, and security all happen without rushing. Give us the flight time when you book and we work the pickup time backward from that — including a realistic buffer for bridge and I-95 traffic at that hour.
My wheelchair gets checked at the ticket counter — is there a chair for the ride?
Yes. If the traveler's personal wheelchair will be checked as baggage, or they don't own a chair but can't manage the long terminal distances, tell us when you book and we'll have a transport wheelchair on the van. The traveler rides safely secured, we wheel them to the curb at departures, and the airline's complimentary wheelchair service takes over from there through security to the gate.
How do you coordinate an arrivals pickup if the flight is delayed?
Give us the airline and flight number when you book and we track the flight, not the clock. If the flight lands early or late, our driver's timing moves with it. Once the airline's assistance staff bring the traveler out to the arrivals-level curb, our driver is there with the accessible van — no circling, no calling around the family to figure out who's where.
Can we set up recurring seasonal bookings for a snowbird?
Absolutely — this is one of the most common PHL trips we run. Book the fall departure and the spring return at the same time and the arrangement repeats year after year: same door-to-terminal service southbound in October or November, same arrivals pickup when they land back at PHL in March or April. One call each season confirms the dates.
We're in North Jersey — should we still book PHL?
Usually not. From Bergen, Passaic, Essex, or Hudson County, Newark Liberty is dramatically closer, and our Newark Airport service covers it the same way. PHL makes sense from North Jersey only in unusual cases — a fare or nonstop that only exists at PHL. Call us with the itinerary and we'll route you honestly; we drive to both airports every week.
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