Avis Now Delivers Your Rental Automotive Proper to the Airport Terminal With New VIP Service

Avis Funds Group launched a brand-new luxurious service this week, permitting prospects to skip the time-consuming airport shuttle and rental automotive counter.

The brand new curbside service, referred to as Avis First, will convey rental automobiles on to prospects on the airport terminal, in keeping with the corporate. At the moment, the brand new service is accessible at main airports in Denver; Honolulu; and Palm Seaside, Florida.

“I keep in mind the times of hauling strollers, automotive seats, and baggage via an airport tram, and that may be powerful,” Avis CEO Brian Choi advised Journey + Leisure. “We predict this makes an enormous distinction.”

Choi mentioned he views the Avis First service as a brand-new class within the rental automotive market, providing premium, concierge-level customer support.

When vacationers enroll on the airport, they’re assigned a private concierge and their chosen car is introduced proper to the terminal. Prospects additionally don’t must take care of the pesky process of refilling the tank or prepaying for fuel as Avis simply prices the market value for no matter was used.

All the automobiles used for the Avis First program are 2025 fashions with low mileage. 

Past airports, the service is obtainable in choose areas throughout the New York Metropolis-area, together with in Manhattan, Hoboken, and Jersey Metropolis; in addition to in Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Orlando, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. 

For neighborhood renters—usually households or folks touring for a road-trip—selecting up a rental automotive might be troublesome. However with Avis First, the corporate mentioned it goals to simplify that have and supply new choices for time-conscious vacationers in search of a personalised expertise.

Whereas the perks are vital, vacationers can anticipate to pay the next value for the expertise. 

An Avis First rental from Sept. 8 to Sept. 12 at Denver Worldwide Airport (DEN), for instance, will set vacationers again $547 for a Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 SUV, in keeping with a search by T+L on the time of writing. Compared, renting a Jeep Grand Cherokee within the firm’s “Normal Elite SUV” class will solely price vacationers $435 for a similar time interval.

Vacationers hoping to get monetary savings on a automotive rental can examine their very own airline loyalty packages for reductions, search third-party low cost websites, preserve their eyes peeled for junk charges, set a delegated driver, and even preserve an eye fixed out for obtainable coupons. Typically (although not all the time), renting on the airport can price so vacationers who hope to avoid wasting ought to as a substitute go for an off-airport location.