Originally Posted by
arlflyer
Now that, taken at face value, makes a lot of sense. For a second. But then it begs the question of why these franchisees or local branches or whatever can't get some sort of stock-sharing agreement or such. Taxes? Is that it? Is doing business in multiple jurisdictions prohibitive from an accounting perspective?
Overall, one would think that given the nature of Europe and its being naturally conducive to one-way trips for business or pleasure, the rental car companies would figure out that they're scaring off a lot of potential business here and come up with some clever solution.
Judging from license plates of cars in rental lots sharing cars across the border seems to work in Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) but being small countries they may very well be served under single franchise. No idea about one way fees over there as I've only taken rental car twice in Riga airport and returned it to same place both times. And both times it was Latvian registered car but there were plenty of Estonian and Lithuanian registered cars in the lot.