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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
Bradley Intl Airport
Additional Travel Information
Bradley International Airport serves the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and the surrounding areas known as Hartford County. It’s located about 20 minutes north of the city on I91, and Avis’s line-up of quality Bradley International Airport rental cars will make the drive easy. It includes compacts and convertibles for students, midsize airport car rentals and SUVs for the business crowd, and minivans for families. You can pick up the Avis Car Rental shuttle just outside each of the airport’s terminals. From there, it’s a quick ride to the Avis Hartford airport car rentals facility.
Hartford has been nicknamed “Insurance Capital of the World” because of the number of insurance companies headquartered here. It’s common for people to fly here for the day from New York, Boston and Philadelphia for meetings. Add to this that Bradley airport is mixed use, civilian and military, which brings in a whole other set of visitors, and BDL Car Rental companies are often busier than you might expect it to be for a city of Hartford’s size. That’s never a problem at Avis, where you can accelerate your travel experience with Avis Preferred, a complimentary membership that allows you to skip the line and go straight to your car.
Additional Location Information
PREFERRED SERVICE
- Follow signs to the baggage claim area. Proceed outside to the Avis courtesy bus, identify yourself as a Preferred Renter, and the bus driver will take you to the rental car facility.
- 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: Proceed outside the terminal at the lower level by baggage claim to the roadway. Customers arriving at Terminal A (New); will need to proceed outside to the 1st roadway. Customers arriving at Terminal B (Old); will need to proceed outside to the second roadway. Take the Avis shuttle bus to the Car Rental Facility.
VEHICLES: Located on the ready line outside the Car Rental Facility.
RETURNS: Same as pickup.
AFTER-HOURS RETURNS: Available. Park & leave the KEY in the vehicle. Take the completed contract & leave a copy with the Security Guard on the way out. **NOTE: between the hours of 0100 & approximately 0330, NO Avis shuttle buses are running to the Terminals. Terminals are approximately 1 mile away. **
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