Thrifty Car Rental in the United Arab Emirates has developed a new digital solution to its car hire process. New Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) will replace the old system whereby a customers’ information was manually documented. It is hoped that the new technology will greatly reduce the time and administration aspects of getting a customer [...]

Germany’s second largest airline and Europe’s leading car hire provider have announced that they will be joining forces to create a new Premium Partnership which will result in customers of Air Berlin being given the best deals available with Europcar. Since 2008, Europcar has been a topbonus partner with Air Berlin. Now that it has [...]

Budget car hire brand, Dollar Thrifty, is now offering its customer-choice service to visitors at San Jose International Airport. The operation is the twelfth of its kind to be opened in the US. Dollar Thrifty said that it aims to open at least another 10 customer-choice outlets in cities across the country by the end [...]

The largest car hire company in the US, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, has been told by a jury that it must pay $15 million to the parents of Jacqueline and Raechel Houck. The sisters were traveling in a vehicle rented from the firm when they died in a car crash in 2004. The damages were awarded by [...]

Hertz has teamed up with used car sales experts AutoTrader.com in order to boost the audience for their used car program, Hertz Rent2Buy. The partnership will mean that the 15 million people who visit AutoTrader’s website every month will now be offered a range of used vehicles from the Hertz rental fleet. Hertz claims that [...]

The car rental industry in South Africa is facing some uncertainty over the next month as predictions over the number of foreign travellers entering the country for the World Cup are dramatically cut. Some industry experts are also saying that elevated room rates and flight prices are keeping the business traveller away. In the first [...]

Car hire price comparison experts, carrentals.co.uk, recently asked holidaymakers in the UK to talk about the nasty surprises that pop up whenever they go away on holiday. At the top of the list came poor standards of accommodation and the nasty surprise of hidden costs. 40 per cent of respondents listed additional, unexpected costs as [...]

The second and third largest car hire firms in the US have raised the stakes in their fight to secure control over the fourth largest brand, Dollar Thrifty. Third largest rental firm, Hertz, has already put in a bid of $1.2 billion, and the nation’s second largest, Avis, is gearing up to put in a [...]

Car hire price comparison experts, carrentals.co.uk, has launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging the British public to get out and enjoy the summer by offering cheap deals on numerous attractions across the UK. The Get Out More campaign is targeted at families who may still be feeling the pinch of the recent recession. The [...]

Customers renting vehicles at O’Hare International Airport may soon face additional charges, as airport administrators look for ways in which to cover the costs of major redevelopment plans. Mayor Richard Daley has asked the city aldermen to place an additional charge on rental vehicles of between $6 and $8. The revenue would be used to [...]