The Big BOS Rental Car Shift this morning
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The Big BOS Rental Car Shift this morning
At 12:01 am, all the "on airport" rental car companies shifted to the brand new consolidated multi-story indoor facility -- the m.o. of BWI, SFO (but not SFO's "Tunerville Trolley"), LAS and several others, for example.
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Yup, but I'm not exactly sure where it's entered. Anyway, it's to be fed by airport buses instead of each company's from now on. That will be nice for all the convenience as well as responsible reasons. Will be interesting to hear from the first here to experience it. I will be sad not to be able to walk between the Airport Blue Line "T" station and the Dollar, Avis and Hertz lots, however. But obviously it's a grand improvement. BOS has come a long long way, thanks to all our fees.
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I'm actually quite nervous about this change. At every airport that has switched to a consolidated rental car lot, I have found the airport-provided transportation to be far inferior to the company-provided transportation.
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In my experience, the discount rental companies are often poor, especially at night, while the first tier, such as Avis and Hertz, have bus after bus after bus before National/Alamo and Dollar come around. IME, Dollar is clearly the worst, and all this is most obvious at LAX.
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And it seems to me that a 15 minute interval with the new system is an awfully long time. I'll bet the buses will be packed if each bus goes to all terminals, until they get it all figured out. If so, it shouldn't take long.
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Nice. I wonder if, at some point, they'll have buses that just go to A and B, and ones that just go to C and E, as is the case with the buses to the Blue Line "T" station during the day. But I suppose the OR has been tested at other airports by now.
And it seems to me that a 15 minute interval with the new system is an awfully long time. I'll bet the buses will be packed if each bus goes to all terminals, until they get it all figured out. If so, it shouldn't take long.
And it seems to me that a 15 minute interval with the new system is an awfully long time. I'll bet the buses will be packed if each bus goes to all terminals, until they get it all figured out. If so, it shouldn't take long.
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And it seems to me that a 15 minute interval with the new system is an awfully long time. I'll bet the buses will be packed if each bus goes to all terminals, until they get it all figured out. If so, it shouldn't take long.
Unlike sgw2124's experience, I found it all to be very nice. The buses weren't super packed on a Friday morning, although it was certainly full. On the way back to the terminals from the rental car facility, they had a bunch of people there directing passengers. That bus was even emptier than on Friday morning.
Didn't come across any kinks inside the rental car facility. I liked it better than PHX's, which is my only other experience with a dedicated rental car facility.
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#22: A, B, and the T
#33: C, E, and the T
#55: A, B, C, E, and the T (off-peak hours)
...Which is a variation from the plan that I remember at other airports with consolidated rental car facilities. Wonder if it's an experiment, and if it will hold.
Somewhat off-topic, has anyone heard what will go into the old lots?
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This is a big step in the right direction for BOS. I wonder if there's a plan to install a terminal-rentacar-subway people mover thing, much like at EWR and SFO. Consolidated rental car facility is a great concept as long as it's not too far (like at LAS) and the shuttle comes often.
I think 7-min interval is too spread apart. In the past, Hertz alone seemed to come around that often at BOS.
I think 7-min interval is too spread apart. In the past, Hertz alone seemed to come around that often at BOS.
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Will have to look the next few times to see if it's physically possible on our brave new airport.
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I experienced the new shuttle routes for the first time yesterday. Terminal B to the Blue Line in the morning and the reverse in the late afternoon. The morning trip obviously was fine as the Blue Line was the first stop after I boarded at B. But I almost missed my flight on the way back, as the rental car stop after the T station added a good 15 minutes to the trip. There were multiple buses backed up at the rental car center.
I hope they have a plan to have dedicated routes to serve just the rental car center, because the current routes are bad both for T passengers and car renters.
I hope they have a plan to have dedicated routes to serve just the rental car center, because the current routes are bad both for T passengers and car renters.