Earn as much as 75,000 Etihad Visitor miles with Avis promotion this weekend

Staff October 29, 2022

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In the event you’ve bought plans to lease a automobile between now and the top of the yr, there is a good purpose to get your rental booked this weekend.

Between now and Monday you possibly can earn as many as 75,000 Etihad Visitor miles — value about $1,050 in line with TPG’s valuations — whenever you e-book with Avis.

There are some necessary phrases to find out about earlier than you e-book. Particularly, you will should e-book three separate leases of at the very least three days every to earn the utmost variety of miles. The opposite caveat is that you must e-book by way of a particular touchdown web page, and we discovered costs could possibly be fairly a bit greater on that web page than whenever you e-book a comparable rental by way of Avis’ commonplace web site.

Nonetheless, with what number of bonus miles you could possibly earn, there is a good probability you will come out simply forward by utilizing this promo when reserving your automobile rental for Thanksgiving or nearly some other three-day interval for the rest of 2022.

This 96-hour promotion with Avis and Etihad runs by way of Monday at 11:59 p.m. GST — which is 3:59 p.m. EDT Monday.

Potential incomes of as much as 75,000 miles

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With this Avis promotion, you’ll earn 25,000 Etihad miles when renting a automobile for at the very least three consecutive days on a most of three qualifying reservations, for a possible whole of 75,000 miles. That is on high of the Etihad miles you’ll earn to your spending — between 3 and 5 miles per greenback, relying in your Etihad standing.

Listed here are the small print:

You could reserve your automobile by Monday, Oct. 31 at 11:59 p.m. GST. (3:59 p.m. EDT).
Your reservation pick-up have to be between Nov. 1 and Dec. 23, 2022, and leases should finish by Dec. 31, 2022.
You may lease wherever within the U.S. (besides Alaska), Canada, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Center East.
You could lease a automobile in group C or above.
You could make your reservation by way of avisworld.com/etihad
Leases that final past 28 days won’t earn Etihad miles.
You have to be an Etihad Visitor member to take part.

This provide additionally states that you just’ll obtain a 15% price low cost, although we didn’t discover that to be true in apply (extra on that in a second).

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Is that this a superb deal?

Etihad is the second largest airline within the United Arab Emirates. Which may not sound significantly helpful for somebody based mostly within the U.S., however Etihad miles are a few of the most underrated rewards within the factors and miles world. Listed here are some examples of flights you possibly can e-book from the U.S.:

50,000 Etihad miles one-way to Europe in enterprise class on American Airways.
44,000 Etihad miles one-way to Morocco in enterprise class on Royal Air Maroc.
54,000 Etihad miles one-way to Japan in enterprise class on ANA.

Associated: Etihad Visitor miles proceed to fly underneath the radar

If there is a bit draw back with this promotion, it is that you must e-book by way of a particular Avis touchdown web page. Throughout previous related (although much less profitable) promotions, we have discovered instances the place the costs had been nearly even between the traditional web site and the touchdown web page.

Sadly, this time round, that is not all the time the case. We discovered some costs on the touchdown web page that had been far greater than the usual Avis web site.

Here is an instance for a November reserving at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport (ORD). Taking a look at a three-day rental on the touchdown web page, have in mind you will have to e-book a bunch C automobile class or greater. You could find the automobile class by clicking “specs” within the higher right-hand nook of every automobile.

The three-day, group c automobile rental — which on this case is a Toyota Corolla or related automobile — involves $377. Bear in mind, additionally, reserving by way of the promo web page does not assist you to log into your Avis account to profit from any reductions you may obtain as a consequence of elite standing.

In the meantime, after we return to the usual Avis web site, you may get a comparable automobile for $263 for the three-day rental, or $209 in case you pay prematurely.

We discovered related discrepancies on charges at Dallas/Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW).

Now, even with the worth distinction, it is nonetheless attainable you may need to select to e-book by way of the promotion as a result of 25,000 Etihad bonus miles are value about $350 per TPG valuations. So, in case you’re discovering, say, a $100 value distinction between the usual web site and the touchdown web page, technically you could possibly come out forward by reserving the promo to faucet into the bonus miles (and that is only for certainly one of your three eligible leases for this deal).

And chances are you’ll even discover a extra aggressive deal in whichever metropolis you are trying to e-book. Simply you should definitely consider your choices earlier than making your rental resolution.

Backside line

In the event you’re planning to e-book automobile leases of at the very least three days between now and Dec. 23, you may need to lock in your reservation between now and Monday. You would earn a pleasant haul of Etihad Visitor miles. Simply you should definitely examine each the promotion reserving web page and the usual Avis web site to ensure you’re discovering at the very least a comparable price when contemplating your choices.

Even in case you don’t have plans to lease a automobile, it could possibly be value reserving a rental automobile if there are dirt-cheap charges in your space. You would get a enterprise class ticket to Europe, Africa or Asia out of it.