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Thrifty Joins Aeromexico Club Premier Program

4 March 1999

Thrifty Joins Aeromexico Club Premier Program, Offers 1,000 KM With Rentals Around the World

    TULSA, Okla., March 4 -- Thrifty Car Rental is teaming up
with Aeromexico, Mexico's largest airline, to give Club Premier frequent flyer
members 1,000 kilometers every time they rent from Thrifty anywhere in the
world effective immediately.
    A flight is not required for Aeromexico Club Premier members to receive
kilometers from Thrifty.
    "Partnering with Mexico's largest airline was a natural for Thrifty to
continue to expand our Latin American presence," said Bob Thunell, Staff Vice
President of National Sales for Thrifty.
    In Mexico, Thrifty has 34 locations in 16 cities, including Acapulco, Cabo
San Lucas, Cancun, Guadalajara, Ixtapa-Zihuatenejo, Leon (Guanajuato), Mexico
City and Monterrey.  Thrifty also has locations in 28 other countries
throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.  In Spain, one of Aeromexico's
premier European destinations, Thrifty has locations in Barcelona, Madrid,
Palma de Mallorca and Sevilla.
    Aeromexico serves 43 cities in Mexico, more than any other airline, and
36 cities in the United States including the gateway cities of Atlanta,
Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, New Orleans, New
York, Orlando and Phoenix, and six other countries in Europe and South
America.  The airline operates 316 average daily flights to 98 worldwide
destinations on a modern fleet of 61 Boeing 757s and 767, MD-80s and DC-9
aircraft.  Aeromexico's corporate headquarters are in Mexico City and its U.S.
operations are based in Houston.  For more information, please log on to the
Aeromexico web site at http://www.aeromexico.com or call our reservations
number at 1-800-237-6639.
    To make a reservation with Thrifty, customers may contact their
professional travel consultant -- call 1-800-FOR-CARS in the USA or Canada,
dial 01-800-021-22-27 in Mexico, or log on to the Thrifty web site at
http://www.thrifty.com.
    Thrifty Car Rental, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.
, is an international network of about 1,200 locations in 71
countries around the world.  Thrifty serves both the airport market and the
local car rental market, and is one of the largest airport parking operators
in the U.S. with more than 14,000 spaces in 48 cities.