Rent a car in France

The FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa kicks off in just seven days, and First Car Rental is on hand with some handy travel advice.
With thousands of soccer fans from across the globe descending, their handy reference guide is a must for any traveller – not just those looking to rent vehicles. The rental provider, which recently signed a new agreement to protect children from sexual exploitation in the republic, answers some of the most common, and leftfield queries on its website.
Safety concerns, as with any country, come down to common sense. Don’t go wandering dimly lit streets at [...]

The Hertz Corporation has announced it has teamed up with North America’s largest collision repair centre group, CARSTAR.
The leading car rental organisation will join with CARSTAR to promote this year’s edition of the Super’Stang Muscle Tour, and to celebrate Hertz will donate an ultra-rare 2007 limited edition Shelby GT-H Mustang convertible, made especially for the group by Carroll Shelby. The GT-H will travel alongside the symbolic CARSTAR 1967 Super’Stang for the season, with one lucky prize-winner eventually being able to take it home.
Hertz Senior Vice President for Global Sales, Robert Stuart, said that the CARSTAR partnership enabled Hertz to connect [...]

Europcar has launched its new WeDeliver service, aimed at providing customers with the option of booking a vehicle and having it delivered to as well as collected from their front door. Europcar’s marketing director, Catriona Lougher, said that the new service was perfect for customers living in cities, especially those who own a car, but [...]

British Airways has apologised for the publication of a photograph in one of its staff magazines depicting a boarding pass on a mobile phone apparently belonging to a Mr Osama Bin Laden. In a prepared statement, BA said that it had not produced the image, that it had been taken from an internet image gallery and that unfortunately the details of the photograph had not been analysed very thoroughly.
The image was used in an edition of LHR News and accompanied a piece about how British Airways planned to allow passengers to use boarding passes which have been sent to their [...]

British Airways has announced that passenger numbers in May fell by 11.5 per cent compared to a year ago. The airline is mainly blaming strikes by cabin crew for the fall in performance. BA has also reported a drop in business and first-class travel of 6.5 per cent. The premium sector is the most profitable part of the carrier’s passenger business.
Meanwhile, rival airline Air France-KLM has announced that its year-on-year passenger numbers for May were up by 4.3 per cent. The airline also said that traffic was increasing and that an overall improvement in economic conditions was the main reason.
Even [...]