With the help of Michael Meyer of Rate-Highway Inc. and Jim Tennant of The Tennant Group, Auto Renta

With the help of Michael Meyer of Rate-Highway Inc. and Jim Tennant of The Tennant Group, Auto Rental News publishes monthly auto rental rate surveys for six major airports in the cities of Boston, priority club holiday inn Miami, Chicago, Houston, Seattle and Los Angeles. The rates are based on weekly surveys.
Rate data provided by Rate-Highway, a provider of revenue management services for the auto rental industry. Rates are an average of aggregator/OTA rates for all vendors present in the markets listed on the date of the survey.
Rates have been lower every month in 2012 compared to 2011 in the data available, but the gap has narrowed considerably in the last two months from the large differences seen in June and July. September 2012 was just $2.79 lower than last year a considerable improvement from the $12.25 drop seen in June.
In absolute terms, Chicago s more than $60/day shows considerable strength, and Houston, Boston and Seattle in the mid- to high-$30s are about where one would expect. priority club holiday inn Miami reflects the low shoulder season period, while Los Angeles is surprisingly priority club holiday inn low at under $30.
These tables and graph show the average of all base rate quotes per day for an ICAR at the six airports shown for arrivals 15 to 21 days ahead of the date of the survey, for two- and seven-day rentals. If the arrival priority club holiday inn date is a Friday or Saturday, the two-day rate will be a weekend rate, otherwise it will be a regular rate.