Six phone numbers, four parking rates and no fares: how DJT answers the way out
President Donald J. Trump International Airport, formerly Palm Beach International (PBI), publishes six telephone numbers for ground transportation and not one fare. The only dollar figures it prints for leaving are parking maxima of $34, $21, $14 and $8 per day, plus a cell phone lot that costs nothing.
DJT ground transportation is the set of modes Palm Beach County permits at its curbs, priced only in its four parking lots, from $8 to $34 a day. Every other way out arrives as a location and a phone number. Amtrak, Lyft, Metro Taxi, Palm Tran, Tri-Rail and Uber all appear on one airport page, each with a number to call, and the cost of all six is left to the companies.
Every airport figure below was read from flydjt.org on 15 September 2026, then read again the same day with a cache buster on the URL. The ground transportation index, the taxi and rideshare page, the public transportation page, the hotel shuttle list, the parking page, the directions page, the airport FAQ, the travel tips page and the name change FAQ returned identical extracted text across both readings, so nothing here rests on a single load. The county transit and commuter rail sites are not sources in this guide, so no claim about a county bus or a Tri-Rail timetable comes from them.
| Way out of DJT | Where the airport says it starts | What the Palm Beach County Department of Airports publishes for it | Page that carries it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi, sedan, SUV or van on demand | Ground Transportation desk outside the west end of Level 1 | No fare; reservations not required for arriving passengers; Metro Taxi at 561-444-9999 for complaints and 561-777-7777 to reserve | Taxis and rideshare page |
| Uber and Lyft | Outer curb of Level 3, the Departures level | No fare and no airport fee; Uber at 1-833-873-8237 and Lyft at 1-844-313-3667 | Ground transportation index and taxis page |
| Pre-arranged limousine, sedan or shared ride | Anywhere on airport property, by prior arrangement, with an Airport Vehicle Decal on the windshield | No fare; 454 permitted companies holding 1,579 decals in the linked report | Limousines page and its linked decal report |
| Palm Tran county bus | Bus stop on the outer curb, Level 1 | No route number, fare or hours; Palm Tran at 561-841-4200 | Public transportation page |
| Tri-Rail commuter train | West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station, placed at 203 South Tamarind Avenue | No fare, no frequency and no shuttle; a phone number at 1-800-874-7245 | Public transportation page |
| Amtrak long distance train | West Palm Beach Amtrak station, placed at 201 South Tamarind Avenue | A Palm Tran shuttle to and from the station, with no timetable and no fare | Public transportation page |
| Hotel courtesy shuttle | Outer curb of Level 1, at the signs for hotel courtesy shuttles | 10 permitted hotel entries with street address and phone; arrangements made with the hotel | Hotel courtesy shuttles page |
| Rental car from the terminal | Reservation desks in Baggage Claim, Level 1, then a complimentary shuttle to the lots | No fee published; 3 permitted non-concessionaire operators listed with phone numbers | Car rental page, airport FAQ and non-concessionaire page |
| Your own car, parked | Premium, Short-Term and Long-Term garages and the Economy Lot | $34, $21, $14 and $8 maximum daily rates; $3 or $2 per 20 minutes; no reservations taken | Parking page and airport FAQ |
| Someone meeting you in a car | Travel Plaza cell phone waiting lot, 2050 Belvedere Road | Free, with flight information inside the 7-11 store, free Wi-Fi and electric car charging | Airport FAQ and travel tips page |
Read the third column downward and one pattern holds. Where the county owns the asset, it prints a price. Where a company owns the vehicle, it prints a phone number. That is a defensible way to run an airport website, and it means the arithmetic of leaving DJT has to be built from the parking page and from whatever the driver quotes at the curb.
The four maxima are the only prices the Palm Beach County Department of Airports prints for leaving
Premium runs $34 maximum daily and $3 per 20 minutes or portion thereof, Short-Term $21 and $3 per 20 minutes, Long-Term $14 and $2 per 20 minutes, and the Economy Lot $8 and $2 per 20 minutes. Daily rates are calculated from the time of lot entry, and the airport takes no parking reservations at all.
Each lot carries a condition that matters more than its rate. Premium sits outside Baggage Claim and accepts self-payment by credit card or SunPass only, with a cashier at the Main Exit Plaza. Long-Term reaches the terminal directly on Level 2. Economy has no cashier between 1 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and is about a five-minute walk, with a complimentary shuttle that runs seven days and pauses on Friday between 1 and 3 a.m. and on Saturday between 1 and 4 a.m. Accessible spaces sit at bus stops 6 and 7, and the Economy rate with a blue hanging placard is $8 a day.
Two rules reach beyond a normal trip. A vehicle using more than one space, such as a truck or anything towing a trailer, pays the stated rate for each space used, and no commercial vehicle or fifth wheel trailer is allowed. A vehicle left more than 30 days counts as abandoned and is towed at the owner’s expense. Neither figure changes in a storm: standard rates apply at all times, including hurricane and tropical storm weather, and SunPass customers pay them even when Turnpike tolls are suspended. Orlando splits its own ceilings by facility in a way this operator does not, as the ground transportation map at Orlando International shows.
Level 1 for a taxi, Level 3 for a rideshare, and the elevators Uber names that the airport does not
Ground transportation services sit on Level 1, Baggage Claim, and rideshare pickups sit on the outer curb of Level 3, Departures. Uber publishes the same curb for its own drivers and then adds the part the airport leaves out: take the elevators near baggage claim 1 or 6 up to level 3, exit the door and cross the street to the outer curb.
Two issuers agreeing on a curb is not the normal case in this region. Miami gives a ride app a level and no door number, which is the subject of the two levels MIA offers instead of a numbered door, and Tampa charges $5.00 to use three named curbsides. DJT charges nothing for the curb and names no zone letter, no door and no numbered space. Its Level 3 map, dated 05/13/2026, carries a legend entry for Rideshare Pickups and distinguishes an Inner Departures Curb from an Outer Departures Curb, which is the only place the two curbs are drawn apart.
The taxi side lives one floor below and one building-end away. Taxi, sedan, SUV and van services are available on demand or walk-up at the Ground Transportation desk outside the west end of Level 1, and the page states in capital letters that reservations are not required for arriving passengers. A traveler who wants a price before boarding has to ask the driver, because no airport page prints a meter rate, a flat rate, a waiting rate or a passenger cap. The contrast with the Miami-Dade rate card that MIA prints only half of is total: one county publishes a per-minute waiting rate and a vehicle surcharge, the other publishes a telephone number.
The list of who may drive you is a decal report dated 6-15-2012
The limousines page states that authorized for-hire providers displaying an Airport Vehicle Decal may operate on a pre-arranged basis, and links a list. That list is a six-page document titled Vehicle-For-Hire Companies Permitted to Operate on a Pre-Arranged Basis, and every page of it carries the footer Airport Decal Report 6-15-2012.
Its contents are worth reading anyway, because nothing else on the site names a single operator. The report lists 454 companies and 1,579 decalled vehicles, 216 of them companies with exactly one vehicle and 25 with ten or more. The largest entry is Go Airport Shuttle and Executive Car Service with 143 vehicles, followed by Park Limousine with 55, Boca Raton Transportation with 51 and Carey Limousine Florida with 37. Two rows carry no telephone number at all. Complaints about a licensed company go to Palm Beach County Consumer Affairs at 561-712-6600, which the document names and the live pages do not.
Address columns tell a traveler something the airport never states in prose. Companies permitted at DJT are spread across 106 Florida postal codes, from Stuart and Port St. Lucie in the north to North Miami, Plantation and Hallandale in the south, and the fleet leader is based in Fort Lauderdale rather than Palm Beach County. A pre-arranged pickup at DJT is frequently a vehicle driving up from Broward, a geography that also explains the fares travelers meet when they compare airports before a sailing, set out in the crossing between Fort Lauderdale’s airport and PortMiami.
One issuer, two answers about the on-demand service at the terminal
The live taxis page routes complaints to Metro Taxi at 561-444-9999 and gives 561-777-7777 to reserve a taxi. The linked decal report says on-demand taxi, sedan, van, limousine and shared-ride services are provided by Southeastern Florida Transportation Group, LLC, operating as Yellow Cab at 561-777-7777, GoTownecar at 561-684-9900, Go Airport Shuttle at 561-242-6444 and Imperial Transportation at 561-689-3663.
| Question a passenger asks | What one DJT page or document says | What another says | Which one to act on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the on-demand curb service | Metro Taxi, named for complaints, with 561-777-7777 given for reservations, on the taxis page | Southeastern Florida Transportation Group, LLC, trading as Yellow Cab, GoTownecar, Go Airport Shuttle and Imperial Transportation, in the decal report | The live taxis page; the 561-777-7777 line is the number both documents share |
| How many ground transportation desks exist | One desk, outside the west end of Level 1, on the taxis page | Desks at the East and West ends of the Terminal, Level One, Baggage Claim, in the decal report | The west end, which both documents name |
| Where the Amtrak platform is | 201 South Tamarind Avenue, on the public transportation page | 209 South Tamarind Avenue, on Amtrak’s own West Palm Beach station page | Amtrak’s page for its own platform, read twice on 15 September 2026 |
| Which site to check when a lot fills | flydjt.org, in the Premium, Short-Term and Economy blocks of the directions page | pbia.org, in the Long-Term block of the same page | Either address loads the same site, because the old domain redirects |
| Which three-letter code to type | DJT, required for airline searches since 18 August 2026, in the name change FAQ | PBI, still the code under which Uber files the airport and prints its averages | DJT or the words West Palm Beach in airline systems; expect PBI in third-party apps |
| How far the nearest seaport is | No page among the airport’s 347 sitemap addresses uses the word cruise, and none names Port of Palm Beach | Port of Palm Beach publishes no airport mileage on its cruise, directions or fact sheet pages, only a menu item linking the old airport domain | Neither issuer measures the gap, so plan that leg from a map rather than a published figure |
None of these six is a trap for a passenger with a phone. Each is a reminder that the site was written in layers, and that the older layer is still load bearing: the only roster of permitted drivers, the only named concessionaire and the only complaint line for a licensed company all live in the 2012 document rather than on the pages built to answer those questions.
Two rail stations two doors apart, and only one of them gets a shuttle sentence
Palm Tran, Tri-Rail and Amtrak share one public transportation page, and the asymmetry between them is the most useful thing on it. Tri-Rail gets an address, 203 South Tamarind Avenue, and a statement that the airport is accessible from that station. Amtrak gets 201 South Tamarind Avenue and one sentence more: a Palm Tran shuttle is available to carry passengers to and from the station.
Two platforms at consecutive street numbers, one connection described. Amtrak publishes its own West Palm Beach depot at 209 South Tamarind Avenue, a station building with a waiting room that opened for the arrival of the Orange Blossom Special in January 1925, and its page names no airport, no Palm Tran and no Tri-Rail. So a passenger reading both issuers gets three street numbers on one avenue and one shuttle that only the airport describes.
Brightline is absent from all of it. None of the nineteen airport pages read for this guide names Brightline, whose West Palm Beach station stands at 260 Quadrille Plaza Drive and opens Mon to Sun at 5:20 AM, and whose own cruise page pairs West Palm Beach with Port of Palm Beach. The county bus fares, the Tri-Rail timetable and the Brightline schedule all sit with their own issuers, which is why the gap between a Brightline platform and a cruise berth had to be measured from the railroad’s pages rather than from any airport’s.
What the hotel and rental lists at DJT actually name
Ten hotel entries hold shuttle permits from the Palm Beach County Department of Airports, each with a street address and a telephone number, and the page states that arrangements are made directly with the hotel rather than with the airport. Nine of the ten addresses are in West Palm Beach and one is in Palm Beach Gardens, at 4431 PGA Boulevard, the only permit on the list that sits outside the city, as the page stood on 15 September 2026. No airport page measures the distance from any of the ten to the terminal.
One of those addresses sits on the airport’s own entrance road: 2375 James L. Turnage Boulevard, the same street as the terminal at 1000 James L. Turnage Blvd. The first entry on the list covers two brands under one phone number, which is why the ten permits carry eleven hotel names. Hotel shuttles collect at the signs on the outer curb of Level 1, the same curb used by the Palm Tran bus stop and by rental car buses, and the Economy shuttle loads from the outer curb across from Domestic Baggage Claim carousels 4 and 5.
Rental cars are handled in two sentences and one list. Reservation desks sit in Baggage Claim on Level 1 and a short complimentary shuttle ride reaches the lots, so the answer to the airport’s own FAQ question about whether the companies are off-site is yes without the word being used. Three permitted non-concessionaire operators are named with numbers: Datura Auto Rentals, an affiliate of Ace Rent a Car, at 800-695-9995, Easirent at 561-210-9539 and Go Rentals at 561-701-2579. The page description names Budget, Enterprise and Hertz and adds “and more”, which is three brands more than the visible page carries, and far short of what the fourteen on-airport brands at Tampa get.
Eight 24-hour periods in Economy, and the three rides that cost the same
Take a seven night trip that crosses eight 24-hour periods, the unit the airport uses when it says the daily maximum applies to each 24 hours or any part thereof. At the published maxima that is $64 in the Economy Lot, $112 in Long-Term, $168 in Short-Term and $272 in Premium. The spread between the cheapest and the dearest lot is $208 for one car on one trip.
Driving and leaving the car wins for two adults on a week long trip, on one criterion: $64 is a published number and no ride out of DJT has one. The nuance is the walk and the wait, because Economy is a five-minute walk with a shuttle the airport says typically arrives within 10 to 15 minutes after the call button is pressed.
Being dropped off and collected wins for anyone travelling light from inside the county. Uber’s page for DJT, filed under the PBI code, prints a historical average of $20 for a trip from West Palm Beach, over an average distance of 6 miles and an average travel time of 18 minutes, with 6,043 driver ratings behind it, and the company labels those figures as historical averages rather than quotes. An arrival at the $16 average on Uber’s pickup page and a departure at the $20 average on its airport page come to $36 against $64 of Economy parking, and a second round trip takes the pair past it at $72, so the crossover sits between one and two round trips. A party arriving on separate flights, or one that needs a car during the stay, loses that margin immediately.
Read the same Uber page for a longer leg and the caution becomes concrete. Six ride options carry averages from $72 to $151, including $127 for the option Uber describes as affordable rides for groups up to 6, and the footnote under them states that those averages are for trips from FLL to PBI, not from West Palm Beach. Uber’s pickup page for the same airport carries the series a departing passenger needs, labelled from PBI to West Palm Beach: $16 for UberX, $21 for Priority, $22 for Comfort, $24 for UberXL, $29 for Premier and $38 for Premier SUV, all averages over the past month rather than quotes, read on 15 September 2026. One page, two pairs of endpoints, and the higher numbers belong to a trip from Fort Lauderdale’s airport in the next county rather than to the city outside the terminal.
Hours, curbs and codes that decide an arrival at DJT
- The terminal itself has a closed window: the travel tips page states the airport is closed from 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. A 1 a.m. landing, a 2 a.m. drive-up or a long layover on the benches is not an option, and the Economy cashier is also away between 1 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
- Waiting at the curb is prohibited outright. Vehicles are strictly prohibited from stopping or being unattended at curbside departure and arrival areas, and the sanctioned wait is the free Travel Plaza lot at 2050 Belvedere Road, at the southwest corner of Belvedere and Florida Mango Roads, with a Dunkin’, a Mobil station, a car wash and flight information inside the 7-11 store.
- No lot takes a reservation, and the four of them close temporarily when they fill, which the airport asks drivers to check on its site before setting out. A traveler who plans on Premium because it is closest can arrive to find it shut and be routed past it.
- Exit numbers read backwards to many drivers: coming from the north, meaning southbound on Interstate 95, the airport gives Exit 69B and a direct overpass to the entrance, and from the south it gives Exit 69 for Belvedere Road. From the Florida Turnpike the pair is Exit 99 at Okeechobee Boulevard northbound and Exit 97 at Southern Boulevard southbound.
- Three concourses hold twelve airlines, and the curb you want depends on which: Bahamasair sits alone on Concourse A, Concourse B holds Allegiant, American, Avelo, Southwest and United, and Concourse C holds Air Canada, Breeze, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue and Porter. A post-security connector between Concourses A and B and Concourse C is in conceptual design, with expanded checkpoints announced and no date or cost published.
- There is no luggage storage and no locker at the airport, by its own FAQ, which points instead to the Escape Lounge in Concourse B for ticketed passengers and to Drive Shack next door for complimentary bag check. Anyone with a late flight and an early checkout is choosing between those two, as travelers at an airport that prints a number for every curb also discover.
- Free parking exists only for Florida disabled veteran plates, vehicles with specialized equipment such as ramps, lifts or hand controls, and holders of the State of Florida Toll Exemption Permit. Everyone else with a placard pays the stated rate, including the $8 Economy rate at bus stops 6 and 7.
What goes wrong when an old code, an old list and a closed terminal meet
The first failure is typing three letters. Airlines and passenger systems moved from PBI to DJT on 18 August 2026 at IATA’s initiative, requested by several airlines at the airport, so a booking search on the old code now depends on whichever third party still maps it. The airport’s own instruction is to search DJT or the words West Palm Beach.
The second is treating the decal report as a current roster. A list whose footer reads 6-15-2012 tells a reader which companies once held decals, not which answer the phone in 2026, and the two rows with no telephone number are the visible edge of that age. Calling before relying on any single name is the only check the document supports.
Third is expecting a number at the curb. No airport page prints a taxi meter rate, a flat rate to downtown or a rideshare fee, so a passenger who budgets from the airport’s site has budgeted the parking and nothing else. Fourth is planning a bus or rail leg from the airport’s page: a bus stop with no route number, a station with no timetable and a shuttle with no hours are placeholders, and the fares live with Palm Tran, Tri-Rail and Amtrak.
Fifth is arriving to be met in the small hours. With the building closed from 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m., the Economy shuttle paused at 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights and curbside waiting prohibited, a 1:30 a.m. pickup has no waiting room, no shuttle and no legal place to idle except the cell phone lot at 2050 Belvedere Road, which sits off airport property. The same trap in reverse catches drivers who assume a garage is always open, which is why the free waiting lot at Orlando International is worth knowing before a night landing anywhere in Florida.
Which DJT page each figure came from, and when it was read
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
Airport figures came from flydjt.org: the ground transportation index for the six phone numbers and the two curbs, the taxis and rideshare page for the desk and the reservation lines, the public transportation page for the three rail and bus entries and their addresses, the hotel courtesy shuttles page for the ten permits, the car rental and non-concessionaire pages for the desks and the three named operators, the parking page for the four maxima and the shuttle hours, the directions page for the exits and the lot routing, the airport FAQ for the cell phone lot and the absence of reservations and lockers, the travel tips page for the closed window and the curb prohibition, and the name change FAQ, updated 20 August 2026, for the codes and the law. The roster of 454 permitted companies and 1,579 decals came from the airport’s linked decal report, downloaded twice with the same checksum, and dated 6-15-2012 on all six pages. Ride app figures are Uber’s own historical averages for DJT, published under the PBI code, read twice on 15 September 2026. Brightline station details are the railroad’s September 2026 pages, and the Amtrak address is Amtrak’s West Palm Beach station page, read twice the same day. County transit pages and the commuter railroad’s own site are not sources here.
DJT ground transportation, answered from the airport’s own pages
Six answers follow, built from the 15 September 2026 readings above. Where an issuer publishes no figure, the answer says so rather than filling the gap from a third party.
Yes. Palm Beach International became President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 9, 2026, as required by Chapter 2026-15, Laws of Florida. The FAA identifier changed to DJT and the ICAO identifier to KDJT that day, and the IATA code passengers use changed from PBI to DJT on August 18, 2026.
DJT. The airport states that passengers searching for flights, checking baggage information or viewing airline schedules should use its three-letter IATA code, DJT, and that searching West Palm Beach also works. Third-party apps still file the airport under PBI, so expect to meet both codes for a while.
On the outer curb of Level 3, the Departures level. The airport and Uber agree on that curb, and Uber adds the route: take the elevators near baggage claim 1 or 6 up to level 3, then exit and cross the street. Neither issuer publishes a fare or an airport fee.
Maximum daily rates are $34 in Premium, $21 in Short-Term, $14 in Long-Term and $8 in the Economy Lot, with $3 per 20 minutes in the first two and $2 per 20 minutes in the others. No parking reservations are taken, and the day is counted from lot entry.
Three bus and rail issuers appear on the airport’s page with no fare and no timetable: a Palm Tran bus stop on the outer curb of Level 1, Tri-Rail from the station it places at 203 South Tamarind Avenue, and Amtrak from 201 South Tamarind Avenue, reached by a Palm Tran shuttle.
Pre-arranged operators must display an Airport Vehicle Decal, and the list the airport links names 454 companies holding 1,579 decals. Its footer reads Airport Decal Report 6-15-2012, so it is a permit snapshot rather than a current roster, and a phone call is the only way to confirm a company.
An airport that changed its name and its code, and not its price list
Palm Beach County renamed the airport on 9 July 2026 and moved the passenger code on 18 August 2026, and the county’s own documents show how long a naming layer takes to settle. A press note from 9 July said the website would remain pbia.org during the initial transition; today that address and its www form both redirect to flydjt.org, while the Long-Term Parking block of the airport’s directions page still sends readers to the old one. The neighbouring seaport still labels its airport link with the old domain, and Uber still files the airport under PBI.
Underneath the name, the ground transportation offer has not moved at all. Ten hotel permits, three named non-concessionaire rental operators, one on-demand desk, two curbs, four parking maxima and a 2012 roster of 454 companies is the whole published picture, and the only figures in it that belong to the county are the ones attached to its own asphalt.
That makes DJT an easy airport to leave and a hard one to budget. A traveler who lands here with $64 of Economy parking booked knows the cost of the week to the dollar; one who lands expecting a published cab fare to downtown will find a telephone number where Tampa prints a formula and Miami-Dade prints a rate card. The name on the terminal changed in a day. The price list did not change at all, because there is almost nothing in it to change.