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Company Overview
Avis Car Rental and its subsidiaries operate one of the world’s best-known car rental brands with approximately 5,500 locations in more than 165 countries. Avis has a long history of innovation in the car rental industry and is one of the world’s top brands for customer loyalty. Avis is owned by Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR), which operates and licenses the brand throughout the world.
Quick History
Founded in 1946 by Warren Avis (who sold his interest in 1954), Avis was the first company to rent cars from airport locations. The company grew rapidly during the 1950’s through franchised and corporate-owned expansion. In 1963, Avis introduced the award-winning “We try harder®” campaign and the tagline remains the company’s rallying cry even today. Ten years later, Avis launched its innovative Wizard system, the company’s proprietary reservation technology. Avis changed ownership multiple times in the 70’s and 80’s, becoming employee-owned in 1987. That same year, Avis introduced the Roving Rapid Return, a handheld computer terminal allowing customers to bypass the Avis counter. Two years later, the company launched Avis Cares® a program aimed at promoting renter and employee safety. In 1996, HFS Incorporated acquired Avis, which was then spun off as a separate public company, all but the franchising rights, Wizard system, and reservation operations. In 2000, the company introduced Avis Interactive, the first Internet-based reporting system for commercial accounts in the car rental industry, which was significantly enhanced and re-launched in 2006. In March 2001, Cendant Corporation purchased all of the outstanding shares of Avis Group Holdings and later that year moved its world headquarters to Parsippany, NJ. In 2006, Cendant Corp. separated into four independent companies: Realogy, Wyndham Worldwide, Travelport and Avis Budget Group, Inc., which is now the parent company of Avis Car Rental. In 2011, Avis Budget Group acquires Avis Europe plc. The transaction re-unites Avis Budget Group with its licensee for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Location
Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Intl Airport
Additional Travel Information
Atlanta isn’t a walking city. If you’re coming here on business, you’ll need a car to get around. You’ll find what you want to drive at Avis Car Rental, just 2.2 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Our ATL car rental location offers a range of compact, luxury, SUV and hybrid vehicles, as well as quality upgrades like a GPS navigation system to make being on time easier. You’ll also find some of the best offers on Atlanta airport car rentals for both short- and long-term leases, and you can accelerate your travel experience with Avis Preferred, a complimentary membership which allows you to skip the line and go straight to your car.
If you’re staying and/or working in College Park near the airport, put your rental car to good use and take the nine-mile journey into the city to visit the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. You’ll gain an interesting perspective of the city, the South and the US as a whole. For inspiration of a more corporate nature, take an afternoon to check out the global headquarters of Coca-Cola, CNN and the many other international conglomerates that call Atlanta, Georgia home.
Avis makes it easy to book airport car rentals. Look through the fleet of our Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport rental cars and find the one that suits you best.
Additional Location Information
PREFERRED SERVICE
- Follow signs to the Consolidated Rental Car facility (CONRAC). Proceed out the west end of the terminal under the covered walkway. Take the escalator up to the station & board the ATL SkyTrain (adjacent to the MARTA station) for the 5-minute ride to the CONRAC facility (about 1.5 miles from the terminal).
- Upon arrival at the rental facility, check your email on your smartphone or the Preferred board for the space number of your preassigned vehicle.
You have the option to accept the preassigned car or exchange it for a similar car from the Select & Go Exchange Area or upgrade the car to a specialty vehicle from the Select & Go Upgrade Area. Cars in the Select & Go Upgrade Area have the additional daily cost posted on the hangtag.
Once you have selected your vehicle, drive the vehicle to the exit booth and present your driver’s license to the Avis representative who will quickly complete the transaction and get you on your way.
*GENERAL DIRECTIONS*
- COUNTER: **Airline Passengers** Follow signs to the Consolidated Rental Car facility (CONRAC). Proceed out of the west end of the terminal under the covered walkway. Take the escalator up to the station & board the ATL SkyTrain (adjacent to the MARTA station) for the 5-minute ride to the CONRAC facility (about 1.5 miles from the terminal).
**Local Renters** Follow the directions in the RETURNS section below.
VEHICLES: Located at the CONRAC facility.
RETURNS: TRAVELING 85 SOUTH: Take Airport Blvd./Camp Creek Pkwy exit (exit 72). Travel south on Airport Blvd to Jet Rd and turn right. Travel through traffic signal and across Rental Car Center bridge.
TRAVELING 85 NORTH: Take Airport/Riverdale Rd exit (exit 71). Proceed in the right lane to access Airport. From South Terminal Pkwy, turn right onto Crosswind Rd. From Crosswind Rd, turn right at traffic signal across Rental Car Center bridge.
AFTER-HOURS RETURNS: Open 24 hours.
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