Can you choose if on a long distance one-way?
May 30, 2019, 6:01 pm
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May 31, 2019, 2:47 am
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If he's choosing from an Emerald Aisle location I don't see what they would do. Maybe the agent at the gate would give him trouble but I don't see that happening.
May 31, 2019, 1:59 pm
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May 31, 2019, 4:38 pm
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On a side note, I thought I was getting a deal with prepaid gas since it was about $1+ more per gallon at the drop off. Turns out all the rental taxes apply to the fuel charge too. I saved some money but not as much as I had imagined.
The cars are meant to be driven, whether it’s X miles back to the same place or X miles somewhere else. The only 2 times I was limited to a subset of cars was when I was trying to one-way from YVR to SEA (they wanted to move the US plated cars back) and years ago when I picked up from a franchise location (SLC) to go to LAX (they had a handful of corporate cars for this).
The only other thing I can think of is to try to find a vehicle with radar cruise control. Good luck on your road trip.
May 31, 2019, 11:14 pm
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Jun 1, 2019, 12:12 am
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If it’s a location with EA or ES, they don’t care what you take anymore for the most part. Only exceptions are cars in Prestige or something weird like a Cargo Van. I’ve even one-way’d a 15 passenger van with Georgia plates from Georgia to Florida before because that was all that was available on my full size SUV reservation.
Jun 1, 2019, 3:24 pm
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If it’s a location with EA or ES, they don’t care what you take anymore for the most part. Only exceptions are cars in Prestige or something weird like a Cargo Van. I’ve even one-way’d a 15 passenger van with Georgia plates from Georgia to Florida before because that was all that was available on my full size SUV reservation.
