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These days, unless you want to pay big bucks, there are very few flexible airfares. And hotels are routinely moving their cancellation deadlines to 24 or 48 hours in advance to avoid billing.

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Times are hard for car rental companies. No one knows that better than Robert Barton, president of the American Car Rental Association. Times are also hard for car rental customers with new fees, surcharges and higher prices. Chris Elliott interviews Barton to see what the industry plans to do.

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National and Alamo are under the same ownership, in fact, they are actually owned by Enterprise Rent-A-Car. And lately, while National’s rates are usually at least a little more expensive, sometimes a lot more expensive, the experience seems about the same.

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In a year when car rental companies are downsizing fleets, many airports are nearly sold out of cars during peak periods, and many travelers will get unpleasant surprises when trying to rent cars during the holidays.

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For years, car rental companies assumed that the cars they rent will affect the cars that ultimately their customers will buy. Heck, it is one of the reasons car manufacturers owned most of the rental firms. A new Avis survey taken in Britain has confirmed those assumptions.

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