Dollar Rent A Car and Sixt Rent A Car Worldwide Alliance Begins
29 February 2000
Dollar Rent A Car and Sixt Rent A Car Worldwide Alliance BeginsTULSA, Okla., Feb. 29 -- Dollar Rent A Car, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. , will begin its worldwide rental reservations alliance with Sixt rent a car on March 1, 2000. Both Dollar and Sixt will exchange reservations in the territories of their individual operations. The alliance will allow the two companies' combined service capacity to meet the needs of the global travel market at nearly 2,000 locations in more than 50 countries, with a fleet of 210,000 vehicles. The companies will provide services to customers at suburban and on-airport locations at most major airports in the United States and Europe, as well as many other worldwide travel destinations. Each company will continue to market under its own name and no stock or assets will be exchanged as a result of the agreement. Dollar Rent A Car has approximately 430 worldwide locations in 26 countries, with a significant presence in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America, including 260 locations in the United States. The company and its licensees have locations at most major airports across the nation, and a fleet of more than 70,000 vehicles. DOLLAR(R) worldwide headquarters is located in Tulsa, Okla. For additional information, the DOLLAR Web address is http://www.dollar.com. Dollar.com is the number one ranked Internet car rental site by Gomez Advisors. Sixt, based in Germany, is the largest car rental company, in the largest car rental market in Europe, and is represented in major countries both in eastern and western Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For more information on Sixt, the company's Web site is http://www.sixt.com.