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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
Eagle County Regional Airport
Additional Travel Information
Avis Car Rental has a great selection of Vail airport car rentals at Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE), ranging from compact and luxury vehicles, to four-wheel-drive SUVs—perfect for winter driving in the high Rockies.
As the primary airport serving several of Colorado’s top ski areas, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone and Aspen, EGE does tend to get busy during the winter months. Avis’s airport car rentals counter is conveniently located in the airport’s main building, and the rental lot is right outside the terminal, so you’ll have your keys in hand and be on your way in no time. For even faster service, 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—perfect for the busy business traveler.
Plan on bringing your own skis along? Be sure to upgrade your rental vehicle to an SUV equipped with a roof rack, and consider a GPS navigation system for worry-free mountain driving.
The skier’s paradise that is Vail is just a 35-mile drive from the Eagle County Regional Airport rental cars lot. Nearby Eagle, CO, is just eight minutes east and the revitalizing waters of Glenwood Springs await you just 28 miles west. Famous Beaver Creek is 32 miles up Interstate 70, and at 1.5 hours from the airport in opposite directions, the perfectly powdered slopes of Breckenridge and Aspen are slightly further afield but still very much within reach.
Colorado’s Rockies are an exciting destination, and the right EGE car rental from Avis is bound to make any trip here that much better. For professional service and great deals on rental cars of all kinds, choose Avis for your next trip to Vail.
Additional Location Information
AFTER-HOURS RETURNS
- Park & lock the car. Place the completed contract & the keys in the key drop box located on the small shed in the return lot or on the rental counter in the terminal. Remember to take your personal belongings with you.
PREFERRED SERVICE
- Proceed to the Avis rental counter. Show your drivers license and identify yourself as a Preferred Renter to the Avis rental agent in order to receive your preprinted rental document and keys.
*GENERAL DIRECTIONS*
- FROM I-70 EAST, exit at Gypsum. Follow the airport signs.
FROM I-70 WEST, exit at Eagle. Follow airport signs.
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