Enterprise tops rankings in rental car customer survey Nov 18, 2009
National Car Rental ranks No. 2 and Hertz No. 3 in the annual survey of nearly 13,000 renters. The survey, which polled consumers who rented cars at airports during the past 13 months, looks at six factors to measure overall customer satisfaction: costs and fees; pick-up process; rental car; return process; reservation process; and shuttle bus/van. (USA Today -- Travel)
Lambert to lose Dollar Rent A Car counter Oct 8, 2009
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New Orleans, air/3 nights, from $348 Oct 7, 2009
Get 20 percent off the cost of an Alamo or National car rental if you book it with your package. Additional nights at the Hilton Riverside start at $116 per person. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Budget, Avis ban smoking in cars Sep 14, 2009
and National Car Rental do not have an "across-the-board" smoking ban but many of their locations restrict smoking, says Laura Bryant, spokeswoman of parent company Enterprise Holdings. Anti-smoking groups hailed Avis Budget Group's ban. (USA Today -- Money)
Top 100 parking violators Jul 28, 2009
National Car Rental, $1,063, Dulles Va. 4. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Allan MuirNHL POWER RANKINGS Mar 25, 2009
(35-27-10)To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld (and entirely apropos to the National Car Rental Center), the struggling Panthers know how to take the lead; they just don't know how to hold the lead. They've lost five of their last six, and had the edge in three of those defeats. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
I recently tried to rent a vehicle from Enterprise only to find out that I couldn’t use my Sun Community Federal Credit Union debit (Visa)/check card. I called SCFCU and was told that they do not allow rentals on their cards from any car rental agency, unless the car is being rented at G&G. I asked the person on the other side of the SCFCU phone why, only to get a short answer of that’s the way it is, and has been for some time. Not rude in nature, but not really answering my question. So my question to you is, why? Luckily for me I also bank at Bank of America and had that debit card on hand. Almost Stranded in El Centro'>What’s the deal with debit/check cards from Sun Community? Feb 24, 2009
A number of years ago several members who were renting cars with their Sun Community check cards experienced forced back charges by at least one reputable, national car rental company for what they claimed were damages to the rental vehicle, he said. Walk described the forced back charges as substantial; one of at least 10,000. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
NACDA Promotes Vecchione to Deputy Executive Director Feb 8, 2009
He also had an 11-year career at National Car Rental and, during that time span, became one of the original NCAA corporate partners. Vecchione attended Missouri Western State University on a baseball scholarship and recently was recognized by the University as a Silver Anniversary Award Recipient. (Nacda.com)