Fees to earn points and points not earned off site from airports on BUDGET?
Hi, sorry, I NEVER rent cars and checked this page for a sticky or a newbie questions page, didn't see one...
Looking to book a car and earn AA points (5x per dollar due to my AA status), ideally from central Melbourne Australia rather than airport, and saw two interesting things on Budget's website:
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Can't speak for Australia specifically, but in the US:
1. Why is there a fee? Because they can. It's charged on earning airline miles, but not hotel points. 2. The fees should be listed in your reservation if you add your airline # to the rental at time of booking. For Avis in the US, it's ~$1.25/day. |
Fees for each of Budget's airline partners can be found here:
https://www.budget.com/en/programs/m...tners/airlines For AAdvantage, it's $1.00/day, but that fee will be subject to tax in some locations. Someone posted on FT a while back about earning miles at an off-airport Avis or Budget location in Las Vegas, NV, but that seems to be very much the exception. |
Supposedly the fees are to offset the amount that the rental car company pays to the airline to buy the miles.
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