Rental Industry

Dubai Rental Agency Expands Globally

Dubai-based Finalrentals is now available to tourists around the world for shoert-term and monthly car rentals, the company announced. Customers have access to more than 1.2 million cars worldwide available on Finalrentals website or mobile app. “We are committed to making car rentals very easy for the users and allow them freedom of choice, not just in a specific country but around the world,” Ammar Akhtar, founder and CEO of Finalrentals, said in a statement. “Our dream...

Enterprise Launches Annual Rewards Promotion Early

Enterprise has launched its annual Plus Your Points promotion earlier than usualy, in order to give registered Enterprise Plus members the chance to earn double points on qualifying rentals. The program is available now through Jan. 31, 2021 to customers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, and Germany. The early launch of the Plus Your Points promotion demonstrates Enterprise’s desire to provide flexibility to its...

GO Rentals Wins Customer Satisfaction Award

GO Rentals has recently presented the Canstar Blue Customer Satisfaction Award in the car hire category for 2020. This is the company’s second win in three years, both times achieving a perfect score of five stars across every measurement rated, beating out all major brands. GO Rentals is the only independent car hire company to win the award. Canstar Blue researches compares, and rates products and services according to customer satisfaction across categories including banking, telecommunications, appliances, electronics, utilities, travel, and FMCG. Results are freely available...

Hertz Reports $832M Revenue for Q2 2020

Hertz Global Holdings announced a revenue of $832 million for the second quarter of 2020. It reported a net loss of $847 million and adjusted corporate EBITDA of negative $587 million. Liquidity at the end of the second quarter was $1.4 billion. “In the second quarter, like so many companies whose revenues have sharply declined due to the pandemic’s significant impact on global travel, we had to make difficult but necessary decisions to strengthen and position...

Contactless Car Rental Firm Move Mee Expands to Greece

Move Mee, the contactless car rental platform, launched in Athens, Greece last week. Now, customers in Athens will be able to use the Move Mee app to preregister and validate their details, book, pay, and locate and open their vehicle utilising their phone as the key. Move Mee is working with Zotalis Group to open the service at Athens International Airport and a number of locations in downtown Athens. “I am really pleased to...

Advantage Lives to Rent Another Car

If a brand could talk, Advantage Rent a Car would have a few stories to tell after 57 years. Advantage was born in 1963 in San Antonio, to Kenneth and Helen Walker, humble, yet entrepreneurial parents, who rented cars to military families for $3.99 a day. Over the next 20 years, the company grew through various names and iterations in local retail and airport markets across the Southwestern U.S.,...

The 10 Best Sites For Cheap Last-Minute Online Car Rentals

Next time you’re trying to find a last-minute car rental, give the traditional companies a wide-berth. They might not have the car model you want and are likely to hike their prices to try and exploit your desperation. Instead, you’ll find better deals by using third-party car rental websites to see what’s available when you go looking online for a four-wheeler at the last minute. Here are some of the best car rental...