I once rented from DAL (Dallas Love Field) and returned to DFW airport, and it was an additional $56 on a two day rental. I think they may be the only rental place that serves both airports that treats it as a standard one way rental even though the two locations are less than 20 miles apart. Since I haven't been flying Southwest quite as much, this hasn't been a major problem though, so I'm really just being nitpicky I guess.

Yeah hoping that comes back as well - I was renting cars on Saturday for about $20 and getting the 5500 miles every time!

You are a genius!
 

That's fantastic! 5 days of rental and about $100 then would get you a roundtrip Saver award ticket! Drat, I didn't even think of that; if they bring this back, it's worth it to rent a car just to get the mileage! Good thinking!

I just learnt of this promo. I read the first several & the last several pages of this thread. It's my first time trying to get frequent flyer miles on a car rental. I have several local [aka non-airport] Hertz rentals booked for next month. I didn't see the option to do local car rentals on United page. The airport is too far for me & doesn't work for my needs any way. What's the consensus on whether it's possible to get these bonus miles on a local rental. Has any one actually received them? Thanks.

I tried to book an LGA rental and change the location to a Manhattan-based location - it did not work. I think this is probably a YMMV situation, but I would not count on it working (or wasting the time with MPSC or Hertz afterwards if it never posts).

Thanks for your reply.

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You would not get the 1500 United.com booking bonus if you do it a non-airport location. you would only get 500 miles per rental and an additional 250 miles if you are a chase united credit card holder.

Not 100% true. You can't go from a local to an airport;

You can, however, book on UA.com from airport-airport and then change your reservation through Hertz.com to go Airport>Local. This does not change the booking number and keeps the extra miles intact. Changing a reservation to go local>airport or local>local does change the number and doesn't post the extra miles.

Interesting & very useful piece of information. Thank you.

I recall not being able to change it from Airport to local. I just tested it now as I have some reservations to book, and it changed the confirmation number when I did the edit on Hertz.com. At least in the past, I recall once the confirmation number was changed, I did not get the 1500 bonus points for a United.com reservation.

I experienced the problem noted above where the PC code is somehow deleted from the record and the 1500 miles don't post. Neither UA nor Hertz cared to do anything about it.

I checked 3 future reservations and one of them had the same problem.

Extended to July 31st now. The neverending 305023 PC code lives on! :D

This is for the net 2750 miles, right? (Not the 3000 extra miles 'summer' bonus, which I think had no promotional code? I had trouble figuring out what was happening with that.)

the promo works with one-way rentals from florida to more northern states (even ATL qualifies as being sufficiently north).

the major car rental companies generally waive one-way rental fees and offer discounted rates (around $9/day) to get cars out of florida after the winter. great for snowbirds!