Originally Posted by
IAHtraveler
However, Avis (per the above link) only charges for some airlines. They don't charge for AA or DL (and possibly others)... I'm not sure why they don't hit for all US based airlines.
Look again at the last paragraph - Avis does charge for AA and DL, but in a different manner (just the excise tax, not the cost of the miles or the program). Interestingly, you can use the $.06 approximate daily cost to calculate an estimate of what they're supposedly paying for miles - $.06/7.5%/50 miles per day = ~1.6 cpm. Must have gotten kind of expensive for them when they ran the 3K/5K AA miles promo last summer.
And they did charge the 7.5% excise tax on the promo miles in most states.
