Originally Posted by
jackal
Well, you had specifically said: "So don't assume you always get miles for airport locations!" Avis AK is the only place I know that to be universally true where renting at an airport doesn't qualify you to earn miles. My point is that aside from AK (ANC/FAI/JNU/etc.), normal Avis policies regarding crediting miles generally apply, whether that means you do or don't get credit off-airport or whatever.
Avis AK might be the only such airport place in the 50+DC US states. But there are plenty of f
oreign Avis and Hertz airport locations which don't give airline miles.
You didn't notice that I said not to assume you always get miles for airport locations
as a lead-up to saying why assume you never get miles for non-airport locations. Ie, there can be exceptions to typically getting airline miles at airport locations, and there can be exceptions to not getting airline miles at non-airport locations. I was just trying to make a points that no simple "rule" about where you do or don't get airline miles (based on whether it's an airport or non-airport location) applies
absolutely.
You only need
one example to disprove that something is
always the case. So we have one example of not getting airline miles at US airports, and we have a few examples of getting miles at US non-airport locations. And that's all it took to prove that neither of these are absolutes.
Now that that's proven, this thread should return to focusing on non-airport locations, which is what this thread is about. (I brought up airport locations
only to prove that nothing's
absolute about what kind of location it is proving you do or don't get miles.)