Originally Posted by
jackal
That's a bit of a unique case. It's because the franchisee with rights to Alaska (Alaska Rent A Car, Inc., owned by the slightly-loony Halcro family, which has been involved in Alaska politics for many years) is operating under a franchise agreement that dates back to 1955 and which is very generous to the licensee and doesn't require them to participate in basically any of Avis's benefits and programs.
My understanding is that all of the rest of Avis's operations in the US are either corporately owned or "Avis Agency" operations, which are fully integrated into the corporate system.
Just to clarify (since that's what this thread is about), you know that are no other exceptions in
non-airport Avis locations anywhere in the US outside of Alaska?
ANC's situation is well known because so many travelers use that location. But not many travelers may use some random non-airport location in some random city in the US (it may be local people who don't travel widely much but just a temporary car who do most of the renting at such a location). So you can't use datapoints to prove things as easily about non-airport locations like you can about airport locations.