Thrifty Car Rental Opens In-Terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
26 July 2000
Thrifty Car Rental Opens In-Terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International AirportTULSA, Okla. - Thrifty Car Rental announced today that it will open a new location inside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on August 1, 2000. With the addition, the company has 85 in-terminal airport locations throughout the U.S. Thrifty will operate a rental counter in each of the airport's three concourses with a fourth concourse and location scheduled to open in November. The fourth fastest-growing airport in the U.S. is in the midst of a $1 billion overhaul and expansion in anticipation of its passenger load doubling from 11 million in 1996 to more than 25 million by 2015. The Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood area is one of the most popular travel destinations in Florida. Thrifty anticipates its customer base will be a mix of 80 percent leisure and 20 percent business travelers. Currently, Thrifty operates 29 locations in Florida including locations serving the Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Melbourne, Jacksonville, Patrick AFB, West Palm Beach, Pensacola, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Fort Myers and Naples airports. Thrifty Car Rental, with its affiliate Thrifty Car Sales, is a subsidiary of Thrifty, Inc. Thrifty Car Rental is one of the world's largest international car rental franchise networks, consisting of over 1,200 locations in 62 countries around the world. Thrifty Car Sales is a franchised retail used car sales network with plans to have 60 U.S. locations in the U.S. by January 2001. Thrifty, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. .