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Originally Posted by sterlingice
Not exactly about airline travel but I didn't see a good rental car thread
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/busin...ike/index.html
Yeah, rental cars are insanely expensive because rental car companies sold more than 1/3rd of their inventory last year to stay afloat.
What they don't mention in the article, of course, is that there are basically only 3 major rental car companies left even though it looks like airports have counters for like 10+ companies: Enterprise (National and Alamo), Hertz (Thrifty, Dollar), and Avis (Budget, Payless). It's basically one big oligopoly and the pandemic was a perfect time to squeeze the industry and they all did the same thing.
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Haven't checked company's portal to Hertz/Avis to see if the prices are jacked up like that.
But I haven't used car rentals even the year before covid, pretty much just Uber'ing.