NEW 20 Euro charge at Airports ?

[kenbowns]

I am reliably informed by someone working in Car Rental that as from Dec 8th Car Rental Companies will be charging an additional 20 euros 'pick up' charge at the Airports, has anyone else heard of this ?

[John50]

I am reliably informed by someone working in Car Rental that as from Dec 8th Car Rental Companies will be charging an additional 20 euros 'pick up' charge at the Airports, has anyone else heard of this ?

Yes, I also have been told this. You know it makes sense to put these charges on during an economic downturn !! Sometimes, I really wonder about these companies, I really do. Of course, 20 euros equals about £17 at the moment and that on top of the other fiddles, fuel charge, wheels insurance, glass insurance etc etc will all add to the reasons why people quite simply vote with their feet and go elsewhere.

[daveym]

Ive just had an email from Econorent:

From 8th December anyone booking a car with the major rental companies ie Goldcar, Solmar, Centauro, Aurigacrown etc. will all be applying a €20 Euro charge (paid locally) for picking cars up from the airport. They have informed us that this is:

"Due to the difficult economic situation, we all are suffering from in general, combined with the fact that the car rental industry is forced by a continuous “price war” to reduce their rental rates again and again, we now, unfortunately, have reached a level, which obliges us to charge certain costs directly to the client, as we cannot longer afford to support these costs by our own by including them in the rental prices" (Aurigacrown)

This does not affect any bookings already made or any bookings reserved before the 8th December, so if you reserve your cars with us through Goldcar or Aurigacrown please book as soon as possible to avoid these airport charges.

For those customers that reserve with Econorent then no need to worry as they are not putting any charges for airport collections, although booking early with Econorent means you get the group of car you require and 2008 rates.



With kind regards



Martin

[benimar_col]

Yes, I also have been told this. You know it makes sense to put these charges on during an economic downturn ! !

100% correct, typical response to push it onto the consumor, everyone has to tighten the purse strings.

Gordon Brown has said he needs to borrow £100,000,000,000 to put the ecomony straight and back on track, oops tax increases on the way over here

the worlds going broke

[Quirkey]

Is this charge going to be collected by the booking company or at the desk when they try to flog extra insurance?