Well, if you're not interested in collecting miles or points with a
partner of Avis (toward flights or hotel stays), and you want to earn something with the rental company itself for one-day rentals, then I guess Avis is not your kind of program.
To me, rental awards (at least as they're structured at Avis) are not a priority. I mean, I would love to be able to have had my entire recent 12-day $1000+ Avis rental in Norway (1/3 of which was "super CDW", because I couldn't decline the CDW completely, and thus my charge card wouldn't have covered it), paid for with points. But free weekends don't help with week-plus rentals a single bit (because the rate for the weekdays alone is not going to be any better than for the whole week!!!).
And most of my weekend-only rentals end up being reasonably cheap, so little incentive to give up airline miles or hotel points to slowly earn a "free" weekend rental (on which I may still have to pay taxes and fees and such?!?).
So I myself see little point for me in the Avis First program (which I am in, but never earn any free rentals in because I always earn miles on my rentals, usually thousands of miles due to promos). And so I can't explain to you what the benefits would be, because I don't see any (for a collector of airline miles and/or hotel points).
