There's Hertz / Carzonrent as you saw. There's another one called Akbar Travels, which also seems to have a prepaid taxi stand at the airport in most Indian cities.
http://www.akbartravelsonline.com/ca...pages/car.aspx
I've not used them for corporate travel, only as a prepaid taxi to get home from the airport, but from stuff I've heard from drivers (and seen) they seem to have contracts with several airlines for pickup / drop for aircrew based or laying over in MAA.
They mostly have Tata Indica subcompacts and Indigo sedans at MAA airport
Originally Posted by
yosithezet
I and others from my company travel to India quite often. We take car service from the hotel travel desks and it is quite expensive. Some examples:
- Le Meridien morning - DEL - Le Meridien evening - INR 2480
- Le Meridien - Gurgaon - waiting around to take from meeting to meeting - DEL - INR 4405
We've been told by our local partners that they rent cars w/drivers from Hertz considerably cheaper. They do have the advantage of massive volume and they are also invoiced directly. We don't have a local office so we can't be invoiced directly. I've checked the prices on the website of the Hertz India representative
Carzonrent and they don't seem much cheaper assuming a similar class of car for a similar number of hours/kms.
Assuming the lack of a local office, what are others doing for ground transportation which is reliable (going to show up on time), trustworthy (want to feel comfortable leaving my laptop in the trunk if I want to go into a mall for lunch), redundant (can't depend upon a one-man show since if he's sick we still have meeting to attend) and available in various major cities in India (DEL, BOM, MAA, BLR, CCU, etc)?