Other Car Rental Programs (ie. Alamo, Enterprise) - What's the charge for earning miles on your rental in CA?




srodr
Oct 14, 11, 5:50 pm
I just read the following on Alamo's website:

When a renter chooses to receive miles in the American Airlines AAdvantage program or the Delta Air Lines SkyMiles program, the Frequent Traveler Service Charge will be calculated based only on the Federal Excise Tax (7.5%) expense incurred by Alamo when it purchases miles from those airlines. Under the tax relief act of 1997, all companies that purchase frequent flyer miles from airlines must pay a 7.5 percent excise tax on the cost of those miles (approximately 6 cents per rental day). The 7.5% FTP tax applies to all US states except Arizona, California, Missouri, Oregon and Wyoming.

So if you rent in California or another of the states listed above and ask for Delta miles, do you pay the normal $.75/day or the 'approximately 6 cents per rental day'?


srodr
Oct 18, 11, 7:39 pm
Does anyone know the answer to this? I've got an 8 day rental coming up and I'll be happy to pay $.06 for the measly 50 miles per day, but its definitely not worth $.75/day.

srodr
Oct 22, 11, 10:42 am
OK, well since I don't know the answer, I'm not going to add my FF#. Six bucks for 400 miles isn't worth it.




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