Budget/Delta 3K for 1-day rental until Dec 31, 2009 - MUAZ002
Dec 7, 2009, 7:26 pm
#151
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Katy, TX
Programs: AA - PLT(2MM); DL - PM(2MM); Hilton - Gold; Marriott Bonvoy- Titanium; Hyatt - Platinum
Posts: 1,718
Dec 18, 2009, 7:45 pm
#155
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: DL ♦M MM|HH♦|Marr Slvr|CO UA AA US|Pri Cub Plat|SPG|Avis 1st|Htz 5*
Posts: 5,044
Weird postings.
The base miles for three rentals posted today - 50, 100, and 150. However the bonuses of 3K each posted on Nov 25, Dec 3, and Dec 3. All rentals occurred from 11/14 through 11/28. Oh well. Postings are coming much faster than I thought they would after DL merged their systems with NW. The oldest rental I have due to me right now ended Dec 13. Not too shabby
What are we gonna do on Dec 31 when this promo ends?
The base miles for three rentals posted today - 50, 100, and 150. However the bonuses of 3K each posted on Nov 25, Dec 3, and Dec 3. All rentals occurred from 11/14 through 11/28. Oh well. Postings are coming much faster than I thought they would after DL merged their systems with NW. The oldest rental I have due to me right now ended Dec 13. Not too shabby
What are we gonna do on Dec 31 when this promo ends?
Dec 18, 2009, 8:24 pm
#156
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: West Hollywood, U.S.A.
Programs: Dl PM-MMX2, AA Gold, UA Priemier, Hyatt D, Hilton D, Marriott Plat, Avis President's
Posts: 368
Mine posted much the same way yours did... here is another promo code I found after logging on to my company's "SkyBonus" account:
AVIS
2,500 Bonus Miles for Delta SkyBonus Customers!
Delta SkyBonus Members can start saving today with Avis Corporate Awards. Use your AWD number to access low corporate rates and earn 2,500 miles on rentals of three consecutive days or more at participating Avis airport locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Provide coupon number MUAA004 when making a reservation. Save more when you use your AWD #. When you pick up your car at the rental location give them your SkyMiles number to receive your bonus miles. These miles are in addition to the base miles you receive every time you rent with Avis. If your company does not have a AWD number,click here
Does not seem to have a expiry date.
Budget
Get 2 bucks back for every day you rent!
Join the Budget Business Program to save your company money — and get money back! In today’s competitive environment, a Budget business account gives you an edge and helps keep your company productive and profitable.
We’ll even give you a Budget Corporate Discount (BCD) number to share with all your traveling employees.
Use the BCD number, and your company will receive these valuable services and savings:
•Low corporate rates and discounts.
•$2 rebates for each completed rental day.
•Complimentary FastBreak membership that lets you skip the lines and go straight to your car.
•Discounts on truck rentals with Budget Truck Rental.
•Dedicated account services.
•Helpful corporate Billing services.
It’s smart. It’s easy. And it pays. Enroll Now
Get more details on the Budget Business Program.
Budget Rewards Delta SkyBonus® Members with Triple Miles!
Delta SkyBonus® Members can start saving today with the Budget Business Program. Use your BCD number to access low corporate rates and earn triple miles on rentals of three consecutive days or more at participating Budget airport locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Provide coupon number MUAZ003 when making a reservation. Save more when you use your BCD number. At the time of car pickup at the rental location, SkyMiles number must be specified to receive bonus miles. If your company does not have a BCD number, click here to enroll.
AVIS
2,500 Bonus Miles for Delta SkyBonus Customers!
Delta SkyBonus Members can start saving today with Avis Corporate Awards. Use your AWD number to access low corporate rates and earn 2,500 miles on rentals of three consecutive days or more at participating Avis airport locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Provide coupon number MUAA004 when making a reservation. Save more when you use your AWD #. When you pick up your car at the rental location give them your SkyMiles number to receive your bonus miles. These miles are in addition to the base miles you receive every time you rent with Avis. If your company does not have a AWD number,click here
Does not seem to have a expiry date.
Budget
Get 2 bucks back for every day you rent!
Join the Budget Business Program to save your company money — and get money back! In today’s competitive environment, a Budget business account gives you an edge and helps keep your company productive and profitable.
We’ll even give you a Budget Corporate Discount (BCD) number to share with all your traveling employees.
Use the BCD number, and your company will receive these valuable services and savings:
•Low corporate rates and discounts.
•$2 rebates for each completed rental day.
•Complimentary FastBreak membership that lets you skip the lines and go straight to your car.
•Discounts on truck rentals with Budget Truck Rental.
•Dedicated account services.
•Helpful corporate Billing services.
It’s smart. It’s easy. And it pays. Enroll Now
Get more details on the Budget Business Program.
Budget Rewards Delta SkyBonus® Members with Triple Miles!
Delta SkyBonus® Members can start saving today with the Budget Business Program. Use your BCD number to access low corporate rates and earn triple miles on rentals of three consecutive days or more at participating Budget airport locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Provide coupon number MUAZ003 when making a reservation. Save more when you use your BCD number. At the time of car pickup at the rental location, SkyMiles number must be specified to receive bonus miles. If your company does not have a BCD number, click here to enroll.
Dec 18, 2009, 9:25 pm
#157
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 8
SAT (San Antonio) does NOT participate in this promo. Both DCA and RIC do. However, a word to the wise, ALWAYS VERIFY ON YOUR TURN-IN RECEIPT THAT YOU HAVE THE FULL 3000 + DAILY MILES!
I made a reservation online and entered the coupon code. I printed a hard copy of my e-mail confirmation which showed the MUAZ002 code. However, when I turned in my car there was no record of the coupon and I only got 350 miles. Been through this before, I went directly to the counter to get the extra miles.
They looked in the reservation and they had NO RECORD of the coupon code, despite it being on my confirmation. After a call to my originating rental location, they added the coupon and my receipt listed the additional 3,000 miles. The lady told me since I was fast break that I should always verify the coupons on the paperwork they give me when I rent the car.
Apparently either Budget's IT system is total crap, or the person issuing the orginal paperwork was an idiot and didn't capture the coupon code.
NEVER leave the rental counter when you turn in your car if you don't have the FULL bonus miles on your receipt. If you try and collect them later they will likely deny it because the reservation may have NO record of the code despite what you see in your confirmation.
I made a reservation online and entered the coupon code. I printed a hard copy of my e-mail confirmation which showed the MUAZ002 code. However, when I turned in my car there was no record of the coupon and I only got 350 miles. Been through this before, I went directly to the counter to get the extra miles.
They looked in the reservation and they had NO RECORD of the coupon code, despite it being on my confirmation. After a call to my originating rental location, they added the coupon and my receipt listed the additional 3,000 miles. The lady told me since I was fast break that I should always verify the coupons on the paperwork they give me when I rent the car.
Apparently either Budget's IT system is total crap, or the person issuing the orginal paperwork was an idiot and didn't capture the coupon code.
NEVER leave the rental counter when you turn in your car if you don't have the FULL bonus miles on your receipt. If you try and collect them later they will likely deny it because the reservation may have NO record of the code despite what you see in your confirmation.
Last edited by kodok; Dec 18, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Dec 19, 2009, 4:33 am
#158
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: DL ♦M MM|HH♦|Marr Slvr|CO UA AA US|Pri Cub Plat|SPG|Avis 1st|Htz 5*
Posts: 5,044
Where is the originating location? Your rental was one-way rental? Is the promo applicable to one-way rental also? I have a plan to check out at IAH (Houston) and check in at SAT. When I made the reservation through the Budget web site, the coupon code "MUAZ002" was accepted.
You might want to call Budget and see if the agent can tell you if the coupon will work. SAT has been confirmed as participating but IAH has not IIRC. One FTer confirmed picking up at MIA and returning to FLL got him/her the bonus. But these two locations are so close to one another they could be considered the same market and thus not a one-way rental. Now sure how cozy SAT and IAH are.
Dec 20, 2009, 8:25 am
#160
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: DL ♦M MM|HH♦|Marr Slvr|CO UA AA US|Pri Cub Plat|SPG|Avis 1st|Htz 5*
Posts: 5,044
It's funny. I have only been using this Budget coupon for rentals at home that are 3 days or less (for 4+ I use the 5K Avis coupon). Each time I have rented I have disliked Budget more and more. Their people at FLL never seem to have their act together, the lines are long, there is nothing fast about Fastbreak, the printer jams, the printer prints a totally white page because there is (again) no ink on the ribbon, there is no car in the slot they gave me, etc.
So I would stand in line and remind myself "3K 3K 3K, Evan!, 3K just remember the miles".
Yesterday I picked up my last Budget rental for the year at FLL. There were 3 people working the counter instead of one. "Where am I", I thought. Then I get called over to the Fastbreak counter by a trainee named Barry. Barry was polite, efficient, knowledgeable, un-robotic and I got the fastest Fastbreak service I have ever seen at any Budget location.
Kudos to Barry at FLL. I don't know if this is just how Barry is or whether the trainee tag made him try harder but I'm happy either way.
Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in. - to quote Michael Corleone
So I would stand in line and remind myself "3K 3K 3K, Evan!, 3K just remember the miles".
Yesterday I picked up my last Budget rental for the year at FLL. There were 3 people working the counter instead of one. "Where am I", I thought. Then I get called over to the Fastbreak counter by a trainee named Barry. Barry was polite, efficient, knowledgeable, un-robotic and I got the fastest Fastbreak service I have ever seen at any Budget location.
Kudos to Barry at FLL. I don't know if this is just how Barry is or whether the trainee tag made him try harder but I'm happy either way.
Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in. - to quote Michael Corleone
Dec 21, 2009, 7:52 am
#161
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 75
Called two weeks ago to inquire about my two 1 day rentals and the 3k missing bonus miles from the 1st week in Nov. The CSR said I had to wait up to 90 days. The miles FINALLY did post on 12/17. So it took about 6-7 weeks. Strangely, another rental on 11/3 posted on 11/7 -- no lag time there.
Be patient, I guess, the miles will come.
Be patient, I guess, the miles will come.
Dec 21, 2009, 8:06 am
#162
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: DL ♦M MM|HH♦|Marr Slvr|CO UA AA US|Pri Cub Plat|SPG|Avis 1st|Htz 5*
Posts: 5,044
Called two weeks ago to inquire about my two 1 day rentals and the 3k missing bonus miles from the 1st week in Nov. The CSR said I had to wait up to 90 days. The miles FINALLY did post on 12/17. So it took about 6-7 weeks. Strangely, another rental on 11/3 posted on 11/7 -- no lag time there.
Be patient, I guess, the miles will come.
Be patient, I guess, the miles will come.
Edit: In the meantime, through March 31, 2010 one can get 200 miles per day from Budget with MUAA006. Rentals must be 2 days or longer. It certainly isn't 3K for one day but it will do until Budget sweetens the deal. Here. I'm spoiled now. If I do rent from Budget for a 2-day rental I will probably credit whatever miles I get to another airline as this is my way of re-starting the clock on expiration rules.
Edit again: Through January 31 one can get 500 miles per day with MUAZ040. Here. Again, 2-day rental required.
Last edited by Evan!; Dec 21, 2009 at 8:14 am Reason: More caveats.
Dec 28, 2009, 7:04 pm
#163
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: San Diego
Programs: UA LTP, AA LTG, DL Plat, Marriott LTT, HH Diamond
Posts: 865
Somewhat to my surprise, all my Budget rentals (multiple EWR, STL, a couple PHX) credited eventually - in fact, they started posting pretty fast by the end of the year. I think I ended up with 10 of them, plus a bunch of longer Avis-es. All told, a success.
But I have to add full agreement to all the cautionary notes. No matter what I try on the phone they can get the coupon in (added to my rental initiated on a company system), but never ever has the FF # "stuck." Staff aren't very interested in adding without arm-wrestling. Systems are down and it has to be added later. Sometimes I get the documents after adding in person and it's not there anyway. I'm afraid to get a fastbreak account because I figure it'll never be in there if I don't do it in person.
Like Evan! says, all I can do is stand there muttering "3K bonus miles" to myself. So no way are they displacing Avis as my preferred rental company, but I did manage to pry the miles loose from them so I expect to be there again next year.
Thanks to everyone and especially to Evan! who has really led the charge on these bonuses. ^:-: Happy New Year to all.
But I have to add full agreement to all the cautionary notes. No matter what I try on the phone they can get the coupon in (added to my rental initiated on a company system), but never ever has the FF # "stuck." Staff aren't very interested in adding without arm-wrestling. Systems are down and it has to be added later. Sometimes I get the documents after adding in person and it's not there anyway. I'm afraid to get a fastbreak account because I figure it'll never be in there if I don't do it in person.
Like Evan! says, all I can do is stand there muttering "3K bonus miles" to myself. So no way are they displacing Avis as my preferred rental company, but I did manage to pry the miles loose from them so I expect to be there again next year.
Thanks to everyone and especially to Evan! who has really led the charge on these bonuses. ^:-: Happy New Year to all.
Dec 29, 2009, 5:12 am
#164
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: LAX
Posts: 26
^
+1 I had to go inside each time after the rental and have them add it to the reservation again, even though each time I had a print out showing it was already there. All my miles finally posted too! Thanks Evan!
Somewhat to my surprise, all my Budget rentals (multiple EWR, STL, a couple PHX) credited eventually - in fact, they started posting pretty fast by the end of the year. I think I ended up with 10 of them, plus a bunch of longer Avis-es. All told, a success.
But I have to add full agreement to all the cautionary notes. No matter what I try on the phone they can get the coupon in (added to my rental initiated on a company system), but never ever has the FF # "stuck." Staff aren't very interested in adding without arm-wrestling. Systems are down and it has to be added later. Sometimes I get the documents after adding in person and it's not there anyway. I'm afraid to get a fastbreak account because I figure it'll never be in there if I don't do it in person.
Like Evan! says, all I can do is stand there muttering "3K bonus miles" to myself. So no way are they displacing Avis as my preferred rental company, but I did manage to pry the miles loose from them so I expect to be there again next year.
Thanks to everyone and especially to Evan! who has really led the charge on these bonuses. ^:-: Happy New Year to all.
But I have to add full agreement to all the cautionary notes. No matter what I try on the phone they can get the coupon in (added to my rental initiated on a company system), but never ever has the FF # "stuck." Staff aren't very interested in adding without arm-wrestling. Systems are down and it has to be added later. Sometimes I get the documents after adding in person and it's not there anyway. I'm afraid to get a fastbreak account because I figure it'll never be in there if I don't do it in person.
Like Evan! says, all I can do is stand there muttering "3K bonus miles" to myself. So no way are they displacing Avis as my preferred rental company, but I did manage to pry the miles loose from them so I expect to be there again next year.
Thanks to everyone and especially to Evan! who has really led the charge on these bonuses. ^:-: Happy New Year to all.
Jan 11, 2010, 12:37 pm
#165
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 8
I have had coupon codes accepted on line and still not gotten the miles. If the BCD is a corp code that does not allow for FF accrual this will not be caught on line from my experience. I have to conclude that other reasons such as one-ways and non-participating locations could also slip through the cracks.
You might want to call Budget and see if the agent can tell you if the coupon will work. SAT has been confirmed as participating but IAH has not IIRC. One FTer confirmed picking up at MIA and returning to FLL got him/her the bonus. But these two locations are so close to one another they could be considered the same market and thus not a one-way rental. Now sure how cozy SAT and IAH are.
You might want to call Budget and see if the agent can tell you if the coupon will work. SAT has been confirmed as participating but IAH has not IIRC. One FTer confirmed picking up at MIA and returning to FLL got him/her the bonus. But these two locations are so close to one another they could be considered the same market and thus not a one-way rental. Now sure how cozy SAT and IAH are.