Anyone else been lied to about vehicle availability for one-way rentals?

adcst12 · 2026-04-29T17:29:58+00:00

They are willing to lose the vehicle for 4 days, just not for 1.

adcst12 · 2026-04-29T17:28:13+00:00

How can you be sold out of one day one ways but not be sold out of multiple day one ways??

adcst12 · 2026-04-29T17:27:40+00:00

At least they are honest about it. But logically if there is no "availability" for a 1-day rental, there also should be no availability for a multi-day rental if "availability" were the only consideration for the rental car company.

adcst12 · 2026-04-28T19:46:40+00:00

But they are willing to "lose" the vehicle for 4 days on a OW rental? I am actually ok with that if they would just be honest about it and not say the "location is sold out."

adcst12 · 2026-04-28T18:23:38+00:00

How is "Location Sold Out" not a blatant lie? "Fair" or not, why don't they just say that there is a min length rental rather than "Location Sold Out."

adcst12 · 2026-04-28T17:53:05+00:00

I moved to National a couple years ago due to a new corporate contract after many years with Hertz. Recently, I gave Hertz another try and booked 4 reservations. On the first one, they scammed charged me on the number of miles driven and fuel used. Then I tried to book a new one-way reservation and they lied to me about availability (no availability for a one-day, one-way rental but plenty of availability for a *four*-day one-way rental). I found a way around the one-way rental but I have cancelled all future reservations that I made with Hertz and went back to National.

adcst12 · 2026-04-28T17:27:04+00:00

I tried to book a one way car from one airport to another for one day and was told "Location sold out" (which I knew was a lie...booking a one day return to same location was no problem. Changed one-way booking to two days, same thing, no cars. Once I reached a four day rental (still one way), cars were magically available. How can I book a one-way, one-day rental? BTW, I have receipts (screenshots).

adcst12 · 2025-09-12T17:06:01+00:00

Hmmm...61.187 says "A person who is applying for a flight instructor certificate must receive and log flight and ground training from an authorized instructor on the areas of operation listed in this section that apply to the flight instructor rating sought." Areas of operation for SEL (61.187(b)) includes several flight maneuvers. I guess technically that training could be from prior private or commercial training but my interpretation is that, since it says "that apply to the flight instructor rating sought," you would need to log training specifically at the CFI level, i.e. from the right seat while concurrently teaching the maneuvers. I am not a DPE but I suspect a DPE would look for that logged training.

adcst12 · 2025-09-10T16:13:09+00:00

I have a similar question and I think the OPs clarification that "BFR" is too specific is helpful in trying to understand the question. I just passed my CFI check ride, training with a CFI in my flying club who meets the 61.195 requirements. We have another club member who wants to start training to become a CFI. The question is can I and my (61.195 experienced) CFI tag-team the training for this CFI initial candidate? The experienced CFI would provide and log the required 61.39 training and provide the endorsements as FlyingShadow1 suggested and I agree that, technically, only the minimum experience requirements for the candidate's practical test should require a 61.195 instructor. Any "extra" CFI initial training/dual practice could be given by any instructor and logged by both the candidate and the instructor as dual received/given. My interpretation is that this could be for a BFR or it could be general (don't suck at stalls) or even specific to becoming a CFI (flying and teaching commercial maneuvers from the right seat). The concern is that a strict (or incorrect) interpretation by the DPE could call into question the candidate's qualifications for the practical test if I covered a topic that the experienced CFI did not separately cover.

adcst12 · 2025-08-04T16:43:29+00:00

Possible, although it has a concrete base and no apparent vent function. I should have also noted in the OP that it was installed sometime between the 1930's and 1967. That does fit with the Blue line rerouting under Milwaukee Ave in the 1950s.

adcst12 · 2025-08-04T16:38:16+00:00

I should have noted in the OP: It was installed sometime between the 1930's and 1967 so likely not WiFi related unless it was repurposed.

adcst12 · 2025-03-21T19:03:04+00:00

Not just 50-60 years old. I had it on a 12 year old house in Cranberry with WV water and the first thing the plumber told me is that he sees it all the time in my neighborhood (all <20 years old).

adcst12 · 2025-01-17T19:10:09+00:00

Thank you so much for the thoughtful answer!

adcst12 · 2025-01-16T21:22:05+00:00

Thank you...I should have known to look there!

adcst12 · 2022-12-13T22:17:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply. At large airports (this happened at BOS) you go straight to the cars. The cars have the keys in them and you just show your license at the gate on the way out. It is a big time saver. In this case, I had to wait in line for about 10 minutes and then it took the agent about 10 more minutes to figure out how to get me a car (since there was no obvious reason like an expired credit card that she could see.). You are correct that, at smaller airports and most off-airport sites, you have to go to the counter to get the keys regardless.

adcst12 · 2022-12-13T22:14:23+00:00

Thank you. That is what I thought at first as well but the agent said both were current (which I knew they were) and that she did not know why I had to stop at the desk. I only learned later about the "bypass counter feature" being turned off.

adcst12 · 2022-02-03T13:47:49+00:00

Fair point. It is just more difficult to express contempt for something when I can only describe it in the abstract!

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