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NewsOctober 5, 2005

Advantage Extends Online Network with Metasearch

SAN ANTONIO, Texas --- Advantage Rent-A-Car has partnered with online metasearch sites Sidestep, Mobissimo and Kayak. The travel-booking Web sites offer customer pricing by searching for pricing directly from a vendor's site.

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NewsOctober 5, 2005

Enterprise Sets Record with Revenue, Fleet Size

ST. LOUIS --- Enterprise Rent-A-Car set a company record, tallying $8.23 billion in worldwide revenue, up from $7.4 billion the previous year.

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NewsOctober 5, 2005

Advantage Site Becomes Hurricane Relief Center

SAN ANTONIO --- Advantage Rent-A-Car in El Paso, Texas, opened its doors last month as a donation relief station for the community, offering aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina

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NewsOctober 5, 2005

Cincinnati Airport Considering Rental Fee to Pay for Facility

HEBRON, Ky. --- Rental companies at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport could be pinning a $3.75 daily surcharge to the cost of renting a car if the airport moves forward with a payment plan for a consolidated facility at the Hebron complex, the Kentucky Post reported.

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NewsOctober 4, 2005

$3 Rental Surcharge to Fund Grand Rapids Consolidated Facility

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --- The Kent County (Mich.) Aeronautics Board tacked a $3 daily surcharge onto car rentals at Gerald R. Ford International Airport to help pay for new car rental facilities and a $120 million parking structure, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

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NewsOctober 4, 2005

R.I. Airport Car-Rental Site Clash Likely Headed to Court

WARWICK, R.I. --- The Rhode Island Airport Corporation, after having been issued a notice of violation in September, is disputing the city of Warwick's claim that T.F. Green Airport's commercial rental companies were illegally using residential land for business, likely sending the matter to court, the Providence Journal reported.

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NewsOctober 4, 2005

GE Commercial Finance Fleet Services Partners with Walden Leasing

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – GE Commercial Finance Fleet Services is partnering with Walden/Rosedale Leasing to provide leasing and loan products to the rental car industry. The new business arrangement will give rent-a-car companies access to lease and finance products from GE Commercial Finance, the business-to-business finance arm of General Electric.

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NewsSeptember 30, 2005

Dollar Thrifty to Offer Navigation Units

OLATHE, Kan. -- Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group will begin offering portable Garmin GPS navigation devices at 287 Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, Garmin International Inc. said.

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NewsSeptember 29, 2005

Hertz Offers Weekly Discount in Canada

PARK RIDGE, N.J. -- Hertz this month began offering discounted weekly rates to customers renting economy-class vehicles and above in Canada.

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NewsSeptember 29, 2005

Thrifty Opens Southwest Florida Airport Location

TULSA, Okla. -- Thrifty Car Rental has opened a new location at Southwest Florida International Airport's (RSW) new consolidated car rental facility.

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