Originally Posted by
Gynob001
Last week one way from MCO to ATl was around $20-48 for a compact for travel during the last week of December-It has jumped to over $150 now.
The low rate you saw probably had a negative (built-in) drop fee. It's not unusual for car rental companies that need cars moved from (for example) MCO to ATL to (approximately) pay for your gas if you take a car in that direction for them.
I once got $60 off a rental for picking up in town and dropping off at the airport. That kind of deal only lasts as long as the fleet needs repositioning, so if you see a drop fee <$0, act fast.
Originally Posted by
Gynob001
I noted recently at MCO car rental place, quite a few cars had georgia plates. I very much doubt that they were all one way rentals that the customers left behind!
Your first assumption was probably right: those Georgia plates were on left-behind one-way rentals.
Car rental companies occasionally offer scheduled drive-in and drive-out deals where you can get a car very cheaply if you go in the opposite direction of most one-way renters. (Seasons
between most of the US and Florida, or weekends
between EWR and Manhattan.)
In most other situations, the cost of one-way rentals on routes drivable in one day often (approximately) tracks one-way airfares. Those are about $150 MCO-ATL right now.