Atlanta Airport Car Rentals
10 Mar 2010
Spring doesn’t officially resume until march 21st, but you’d think we’d be beyond snow troubles by now especially in the southern states. A major snowstorm traveled through Atlanta this morning causing huge delays for the world’s busiest airport. Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson International Airport saw hundreds of flight cancellations due to their inability to handle snow. Afterall, Atlanta only gets 2 inches of snow on average per year. Why should the airport be prepared to handle snow?
The snow storms have affected the Atlanta Airport car rental business as well. With all the flight cancellations this leads to hundreds of car rental cancellations as well. All car rental agencies are affected including Enterprise, Dollar, Budget, and all the rest. In particular exotic car rentals in Atlanta seem to have been hit the hardest. If you want a rental car in Atlanta while it’s snowing, it doesn’t make much sense to get a Corvette. People are opting for bigger cars that can handle the snow like SUVs and Hummers.
The northern cities of Minneapolis and Boston seemed to have gotten off light this winter while the middle US and southern states seem to have gotten unusual amounts of snowfall this year. It seems that the part of the country that is least equipped to deal with snow seems to be getting the most of it.
The snow problems in Atlanta were particularly troublesome for travelers trying to make connecting flights that were canceled or delayed. This was good business for hotels surrounding the Atlanta airport but car rental companies didn’t see the benefits of the stranded travelers as they were only delayed in their trips for a day.
The snow has not been nice to southern businesses particularly when you couple this with the economic depression. Times are hard for car rental agencies but they’ll make it through this rough spot.
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