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Originally Posted by Jason F Potvin
(Post 24925486)
Here is the new Avis preferred structure.
Avis Preferred : 1 point per rental $ spent, 2 points per accessory $ spent. Avis Preferred Plus (level attained after 12 rentals or 5000$ spent) : 1.25 points per rental $ spent, 2.5 points per accessory $ spent. Avis President's Club (level attained after 25 rentals or 7000$ spent) : 1.5 point per rental $ spent, 3 points per accessory $ spent. https://uat.avis.com/car-rental/cont...isPref-Points# --- Finally, President's Club is attainable without actually being a President of a big company (or via other memberships) ! I'm hoping that Avis will allow status matching, as I'm stuck at Avis First while being a National Executive Elite member (after my 100 or so rental days this year). Qualifying Rentals: A qualifying rental for Service Level memberships and rewards is defined as a completed, paid rental at participating Avis worldwide locations that is checked out and checked in within the same calendar year ("Rental"). Credit will not be earned on rentals that are unpaid or "free" of time- and-mileage charges, rentals checked out at non-participating Avis locations, nor on rentals with the following discount rates, rate codes, rate categories or profile types: Corporate or government accounts that do not allow employees to participate in loyalty and rewards programs; Avis central billing profiles that can be used by more than one person (i.e. authorized rep card, global electronic billing account); ACTO (Avis Company Travel Orders) voucher or for instances in which a third-party award was redeemed for the rental; and employee and friends-and-family rates for Avis or any affiliated company or licensee, travel industry, tour, wholesale and meeting and convention affiliations. |
Originally Posted by IAHtraveler
(Post 24925827)
And so begins the countdown until either:
1. Avis devalues the PC membership, or 2. More locations start claiming the 2-class upgrades "aren't available", thus making PC useless I myself would gladly return to Avis if I was afforded better recognition than First/Preferred Plus (obtained over a period of two months last year), which means Avis would receive more revenue. As it is now, I made all of this year's rentals with National, because their Executive Elite tier allowed me to have some very nice cars/SUVs (Cadillac, Mustang Convertible/GT, etc.) at the intermediate rate, even though National has less locations from which to rent, thus a smaller number of cars in the regional fleet. |
So, it seems that:
1 - the redemption pricing is dynamic (i.e. like redeeming DL miles or WN RR points?) as there is no fixed award chart? 2 - rentals that receive miles/hotel points still won't get points 3 - there is no "consecutive check in and check out counts as 1 rental" rule as the hotels count stays? 4 - 5-year rule is shelf-life for the points earbed (not to renew all the points), right? (Like what AC had.) Any prediction on if they will promote to PC and award the tier bonus to those who already qualified based on last year's rentals? Thanks. |
no more "rental days" option for earning status!
Originally Posted by Jason F Potvin
(Post 24925486)
Avis Preferred Plus (level attained after 12 rentals or 5000$ spent)
Though not that (as someone who always earns partner miles/points and bonuses on same, on every single rental) I get that much out of Avis First. Avis First doesn't seem to upgrade me (from lower-class cars) much more than Avis Preferred (which still upgrades me quite often) does. |
Hi guys,
I guess this change is only for US, right? At the moment in Europe we are already on a rental-based model similar as what is described a few posts above: Avis Preferred Plus: reach that level with 5 rentals and €1000 spend Avis Presidents club Reach that level with 10 rentals and min €2000 spend No Avis first that I know of. The PDF doc for loyalty is here. http://www.avis.co.uk/dms/avis/PDF/a...ts-summary.pdf |
If PC upgrade become as rare as First upgrades, this will not be any better for me. Back when I was PC through the Chase card they would bring me nice cars from the airport when I reserved at the neighborhood location. Not only do they not bother now that I am a lowly First (I wouldn't expect them to anyway), they decline to give me a premium on a full size reservation even when they have one sitting there.
The only upgrade I've gotten in 10 rentals so far this year was when I used an upgrade coupon. It's a bit infuriating, TBH. Why bother to have the benefit if it is never actually given? (I'm particularly annoyed today because they had an MKZ on hand, which would have been a single class upgrade, it's been sitting there unrented for days and the car I have will be up for an oil change before the end of the week so it would have made everyone's life easier to just give me the damn upgrade) |
I just started using Avis in the past week - it' s the preferred provider for my firm, and now need to rent cars regularly
I have th AMEX PLAT card and have had the old Avis Preferred status through that - it looks like that no longer has any special value Has anyone heard if the AMEX PLAT will now give us Preferred Plus status? I'm at 2 rentals in the past 10 days, will have my 3rd next week |
Originally Posted by 4aks
(Post 24933697)
I have th AMEX PLAT card and have had the old Avis Preferred status through that - it looks like that no longer has any special value
Has anyone heard if the AMEX PLAT will now give us Preferred Plus status? No one knows that Avis Preferred Plus program will be like - the T&C we found here seems to be from the Beta site. It probably IS the real one but the T&Cs do not seem to have been officially announced. At the end of the day, as you see in how they handled the program change, Avis really does not care much about loyalty. |
I'll apologize up front for this very basic, and possibly unanswerable, question. What benefit, then, is there in having the American Express Platinum card or the Citi Prestige card, which I believe are supposed to get you Avis First, which in turn appears to be vaporizing?
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It may well be definitively unanswerable at the moment, but a guess might be that it will change to provide the new Preferred Plus status instead.
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I'm on track to meet the "12 rentals or 35 days" criteria by mid July
Is Avis FIRST a dead program at this point? or should I expect an invite into it? Nothing in my current avis account mentions points earned etc |
So, we are two days from the end of the program and 3 days from the new program. Has anyone found any details other than the Beta site?
Thanks. |
I just called Avis to ask, was transferred to the PC desk. They confirmed the details mentioned above, and the rental count and spend count starts as of July 1st, no credit for YTD spend/rentals
The agent said the website will report what your count is, everyone starts at Preferred, then at 12r/$5k will be auto-elevated to Preferred Plus, and at 25r/$7k will be auto-elevated to President's Club I have a rental beginning tomorrow, returning Thurs July 2nd, unclear if that'll be counted |
Originally Posted by 4aks
(Post 25039316)
I just called Avis to ask, was transferred to the PC desk. They confirmed the details mentioned above, and the rental count and spend count starts as of July 1st, no credit for YTD spend/rentals
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Originally Posted by 4aks
(Post 25039316)
I just called Avis to ask, was transferred to the PC desk. They confirmed the details mentioned above, and the rental count and spend count starts as of July 1st, no credit for YTD spend/rentals
Of course, if MasterCard World Elite updates giving Avis First status to giving Avis Preferred Plus status, that just might the easier route. |
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