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The largest general use car rental company in the world, Hertz, today unveiled a new partnership with respected airline Oman Air.
In a move tailored towards loyalty club members that belong to Oman Air’s Sindbad Frequent Flyer Programme, Hertz will introduce a range of discounted rates and access to special offers in the key market destinations of the carrier.
Beginning on June 1st, 2010, Sindbad Frequent Flyer members that are travelling on Oman Air are entitled to accrue 500 Sindbad Miles per each standard car rental on the range of eligible vehicles. Members can also earn up 1,000 Sindbad miles when they [...]

Car rental giant, Enterprise Holdings, has decided to combine the shuttle bus service offered by its brands at San Antonio International Airport. Enterprise runs Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental at the airport, and said that by merging its shuttle services, it would help the airport to reduce traffic congestion.
The move [...]

AVIS UK, one of the leaders in British car rental, has today launched its all new home Delivery service.
Keeping to their motto of trying harder, the rental experience just became far easier thanks to the convenience of door-to-door drop offs of your favourite vehicle. The customer can also choose to have the vehicle collected from their chosen residence at the end of the hire period – avoiding costly and time consuming delays.
With many UK holiday drivers, a common gripe is over the pick-up and delivery process in any hire car deal. From lengthy journeys to the rental centre for collection, [...]

A study by one of the country’s leading department stores has revealed that modesty prevails for women planning to holiday at home this year. In an attempt to understand its customers differing beach wear preferences, depending on where they were holidaying, Debenhams found that less revealing options were favoured by those who planned to hit British beaches this summer.
Although 91 per cent of the women surveyed said that they wore bikinis when they holidayed abroad, 80 per cent that they would never dream of doing so in the UK. Debenhams said that sales of more modest swimwear, like skirted swimsuits, [...]

New technology being used by officials trying to locate the whereabouts of an Air France jet which crashed into the sea last year, killing everyone on board, suggests that the aircraft may have performed a u-turn before the accident. New analysis of the pinging signals given off by the jet’s black-box flight recorders indicates that the airplane may have doubled back on itself.
The tentative conclusion has been reached because the plane is in a different location to the one which was last reported to air traffic controllers. Jean-Paul Troadec, head of BEA, the French accident investigation agency, said that sonar [...]