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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For 20 years, Richard Schwarz busy cars at affordable ante on weekends at Philadelphia International Airport.
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Sports Car Center Airport, airport, SCC Airport | sports car center airportBy accumulation airline promotions, frequent-flier miles, and deals offered by the rental companies, the Centermost Burghal citizen said he could snag a weekend arrangement starting at $15 or $16 a day.
No longer.
It aloof got $8 a day added big-ticket to hire a car at Philadelphia airport.
The Pennsylvania assembly approved, and Gov. Corbett active into law in November, a busline allotment bill that included an $8-a-day “customer ability charge” to pay for the design, construction, and closing operation of a circumscribed car-rental facility.
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The center, in the planning stage, will consolidate operations of seven or added rental companies beneath one roof - in the aforementioned area area the companies are now, beyond from the parking garages on the airport arrivals road.
The $8 circadian fee on airport car rentals took aftereffect May 1. For Schwarz, it was a deal-breaker - an added $24 amount for a three-day weekend, and $56 added for a week.
“It’s outrageous,” he said. “I will no best be able to hire cars at Philadelphia airport.”
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Sports Car Center Airport avajaistarjoukset | sports car center airportRental-car centers are acceptable accepted at beyond airports. Boston Logan International has one of the newest, a $310 actor account centermost and four-level garage.
To bottom the cost, added than 125 U.S. airports accept a customer-facility charge, sometimes alleged a busline fee, said James Branda, an airport administering adviser in Chicago.
The fees ambit from $2 a day at Liberty airport in Newark, New Jersey, to $8 a day at Chicago O’Hare and $10 per day at six California airports, including Los Angeles. San Francisco has a collapsed $20 per rental transaction fee. The ability allegation at Boston Logan is $6 a day.
At Philadelphia airport, the new fee is projected to accomplish about $28 actor annually. Plans accommodate a unified shuttle bus system, and eventually an automatic “people-mover” to go amid terminals, the rental center, and airport parking lots.
“The rental car companies, on their accepted site, are a bit accountable in acceding of space,” said Chellie Cameron, Philadelphia agent aerodynamics administrator of accounts and administration. “This new ability will accord them a abundant added operationally able place. It will be acceptable for the customers, and acceptable for the rental car companies.”
For consumers, the ability allegation is accession add-on that with added taxes and surcharges about doubles the abject cost.
The weekend amount to hire a Dodge Charger from Enterprise Leasing Co. at the airport from June 13 to 15 was $65.94. After taxes and fees, the absolute was $103.85.
In accession to the new ability charge, renters pay an airport “concession recovery,” or “airport admission fee,” which amounts to 10 percent of the abject rental. Rental companies pay 10 percent of their gross acquirement to the airport to accomplish there.
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Jaguar Land Rover avaa lippulaivaliikkeen Helsinkiin - ePressi | sports car center airportOther taxes and surcharges can include: a 2 percent commuter car rental tax, 6 percent Pennsylvania accompaniment sales tax, 2 percent Philadelphia burghal sales tax, a collapsed $2-per-day accessible busline abetment tax, and a 2 percent agent rental tax, according to one rental contract.
“A lot of renters don’t accept what these fees are,” said Neil Abrams, admiral of Abrams Consulting Group, a car-rental consulting and biking bazaar analysis aggregation in New York.
“Rental car companies are absolutely accumulating agents. They don’t authority on to this money. It absolutely drives up the amount of the rental essentially - as abundant as 30 or 40 percent.”
A $2-per-day fee is administered by the Pennsylvania Administration of Acquirement to abutment accumulation alteration in the state, said administration columnist secretary Elizabeth Brassell.
The 2 percent commuter car-rental tax is calm alone in Philadelphia, and acclimated to advice pay for sports stadiums, said burghal accounts administrator Rob Dubow.
Another $2-per-day assessment applies to car rentals in Allegheny County, and was accustomed by bounded legislators about bristles years ago to armamentarium a accessible alternation busline system, said Laura Bryant, backer for Enterprise Holdings, which owns Alamo, Enterprise, and National car brands.
Enterprise afresh accurate legislation in Philadelphia to add the $8-a-day chump ability allegation at the airport for a proposed consumer-friendly rental center. “The aboriginal proposals absolutely alleged for $12 a day, but we formed with bounded authorities to advice accumulate costs down,” Bryant said.
As annoyed as some travelers are, abounding renters don’t pay absorption to the fees.
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Sports Car Center Airport - Sports Car Center Airport | sports car center airport“I biking a lot. I never noticed it,” said Michael Bosha, a chief artefact administrator who afresh flew to Philadelphia and busy a car to drive to Allentown. “I’m not activity to lie. I get a rental-car bill. I put it on an amount report. I don’t accept to catalog the report. I aloof bandy it in.”
Lee Beyton flew to Philadelphia from Orlando, Fla., and busy a car to drive to Wilmington. “It’s apparently not article I would notice. It’s a necessity,” he said of renting a car. “My aggregation would pay.”
The rental-car industry has adamantly against levies to pay for sports stadiums and borough projects that accept annihilation to do with biking or renting a car.
“The chump can alone booty so abundant on every rental agreement. It becomes difficult for us,” said Sharon Faulkner, controlling administrator of the American Car Rental Association. “I would advance the bounded chump acquisition an off-airport area to abstain some of these accuse and fees, and accomplish a allegory with the amount at the airport.”
Nationwide, 53 percent of car rentals are at airports, with the actual 47 percent by bounded residents.
Has the admeasurement of taxes and fees aching airport rentals? Not yet.
“We accept apparent no evidence,” said Branda, whose firm, Ricondo & Associates, does band achievability studies for airports.
“Every airport is actual anxious that the combination” of fees and taxes “at some point is activity to drive the chump away,” Branda said. “Common faculty tells you at some point that’s activity to be reached, but it hasn’t been accomplished yet - that anybody has been able to prove.”
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