If someone asks me in PM, I will give em any information they want to know, unless it is already available via my posts and I will tell them where to find it, but dont waste a thread.

When I started providing info to people in this forum, I got hundreds of "what is this number, what is that number" questions in my PM. I answered bunches of them, then got annoyed when those who asked didnt even contribute to the forum or even bother to look em up on their own. I mean, how many times can I answer a108300 questions?. I resorted to cutting and pasting. After a certain amount of time, I stopped answering those messages, choosing only to answer them in the appropriate forum thread. When I stopped answering people individually, they started posting and starting their own threads, too lazy to look in the appropriate thread that is 32 or so pages long. Cant blame em, but I sure as heck am not going to make it easy for them.

in regards to your AWD code, it appears to be, from what I can tell, a burn AWD. Use once, for a specific conference, and thats it. If the conference has multiple years, often they are included as well, but the sheer lack of any information in any search engine on this leads me to believe its either a very small business or a single use conference code. to me the most telling part of it is the end of the code. 77. Whenever a AWD code ends in 00, that means that is a big account and that is the main number. Seeing 77 means that either this is a particular department for a large company (one that has 77 different AWD's for billing purposes and accounting, each number indicates which Billing code it belongs to) or its an open AWD series. That just means that the 00 doesnt belong to anyone, so 01-99 is broken up and given to really small business accounts or to conferences or special events. For example, American Medical Association may have its own AWD for its staffers and for conference employees, but participants may be given a specific AWD for promotional reasons. If the AMA got 500 people to rent cars from a specific event, AMA may get free rentals for the event itself, or free coupons for future events. Also in exchange for promotional consideration, avis may, in exchange for a booth where they sign up dozens and dozens of new businesses, give a special AWD good for a specific weekend or specific week for businesses to bring their famlies on the next conference.

Also, some AWD's are simply triggers for discounts on other businesses. American airlines routinely uses AWD codes to flag customers who use their service to target them for bonus miles or promotional consideration. But, once again, the sheer lack of any info leads me to believe its a small acct or part of a conference that has since gone, or perhaps not even assigned.

Generally, there is no way to tell what is safe to use and what isnt. for the most part, most codes are okay for anyone. However, a select few codes are monitored. Abbot labs, Lockheed Martin, Avis Employee, Citi Employee, Microsoft exec, U.S. government rates, any code that allows underage drivers will likely draw some sort of proof that you are with the company in question.