Hertz - Hertz LAX started charging airport concession recovery fee

Hertz LAX started to charge 11.10% the concession recovery fee starting this year, and they also started charging $0.7 per day or so for license fee. What's up with that? Hertz LAX is like 2 miles away from the airport! :mad: Their effective rate just went up about 12-13%.

Is any other LAX car rental places charging this? Any way to avoid this fee? I'm thinking maybe I can take the Hilton LAX shuttle to Hilton, and rent from there. Does Hilton LAX Hertz counter charge the concession recovery fee?

If it's an airport location, no doubt it is subject to airport taxes. So since the great state of California assess those fees for airport rentals, Hertz collects them on their behalf.

Hertz LAX is like 2 miles away from the airport!

Is any other LAX car rental places charging this?

Ten rental car companies are permitted to pick-up and drop-off their customers directly from the airline terminals using courtesy shuttles. These are:

Advantage
Alamo
Avis
Budget
Dollar
Enterprise
Hertz
Fox/Payless
National
Thrifty

There are about thirty other rental companies that service LAX. However, in order to use these you have to take a shuttle bus to reach the Off-Airport Rental Car Terminal to meet their rental car courtesy shuttle (a shuttle to reach the shuttle).

All of this means that the airport authority (LAWA) can enforce the concession fee. :(

Sorry I can't help with your questions, but that is sad to hear. LAX Hertz was always the cheapest of only 8.25% tax assessed!

We need you car renters to help balance our budget.

The city of Los Angeles, owner of LAX through Los Angeles World Aiports and which also owns ONT, Palmdale and Van Nuys airports, is planning on building the worlds largest unified car rental garage in phase 1 (green phase) of a $10 Billion (or probably much more) remake of LAX. These fees are long overdue vs. burdening us taxpayers of the city of Los Angeles. Considering what I have to pay in other cities such as DFW, IAH, LAS, FLL, MIA etc. where the fees are 50% to more than 100% of the daily rental rate, this is cheap. And in those cites the fees go to building things like sports staduims, unlike what the LAX fee will be helping to pay for - kickbacks to Mayor James Hahn's union buddies for their endorsements for his reelection this year (and plenty of union contracts to rebuild LAX.)