Earn miles with car rentals, with just a few euros you can earn lots of miles

Travel by car, on the road, it is definitely one of my favorite experiences. When I was living in Budapest, several friends came to visit me, and with some of them we decided to rent a car and turn the Bulgaria, starting from the capital Sofia and arriving totally on the other side to the shores of the Black Sea; Another time, with a friend we shot the Croatia starting right from Budapest, arriving in Krk, Croatia's quaint little island.

If you also like the convenience of renting a car and turn as and where you want in a foreign land or even in Italy, you cannot fail to take advantage of the benefits of accumulate points and miles with airline and car rental programs and partnerships.

A small premise. When renting a car there are "basic" insurances that are included in the rental, but if you want to sleep soundly and eliminate any worries you can take out additional insurance. This coverage sometimes costs more than the rental. What you need to know, however, is that with some credit cards, such as. the American Express Platinum you are covered up to 75 thousand euros of damage to the car All included in your annual card fee.

But which ones are the best? What are the advantages? How many points do I earn?

Let's find out together!

Miles & More - Lufthansa

The mileage accumulation program of Lufthansa allows you to earn, for each reservation, at least 250 award miles For each day of rental.

Thanks to the program Hotels & Cars by Points you have a choice of more than 29,000 car rentals worldwide. Simply enter your trip details on the official website and choose your pickup and drop-off from the thousands of cities available.

Partners include:

• Avis: An accumulation of 500 miles per hire.
• Budget: An accumulation of 500 miles per hire.
• Enterprise: 500 miles per rental also for commercial vehicles.
• Europcar: 500 miles per rental, with the option of even having luxury cars such as a limousine.
• Hertz: 500 miles each rental plus the opportunity to take advantage of professional transportation with Hertz Trucks.
• Sixt: 500 miles per standard car rental, while if you use the Sixt Sport & Luxury Cars service to rent high-end models, you will be able to go up to 2,000 miles per rental.

MilleMiglia - Alitalia

Alitalia has also formed partnerships with car rental companies such as:

Avis

Present in more than 165 countries with 5,500 agencies. With Alitalia, depending on which club you belong to (MilleMiglia, Ulysses, Winged Arrow, Winged Arrow Plus), you can earn from a minimum of 600 to a maximum of 900 miles per rental plus 300 bonus miles per rental day up to a maximum of 4.800 miles.

Budget

The Budget miles program promises 500 miles for each car rental made through Alitalia and a discount of 10% On the best rental rate.

Major

The all-Italian car rental company has the same benefits as Avis, meaning if you belong to one of Alitalia's clubs you can accumulate up to 900 miles per rental plus 300 bonus miles per day (up to a maximum of 4,800).

Flying Blue

Air France's loyalty program, KLM, Transavia, Aircalin, Kenya Airways and Tarom rewards everyone who wants to use their car rental partners scattered around the world, that's who they are:

Avis

Depending on your level of membership in the Flying Blue program, you can accumulate up to 900 miles per rental. In addition, if you are a frequent flyer, you will be able to earn 500 extra miles.

Budget

It is possible to accumulate up to 1.000 miles per car rental:
- Rentals from 1/2 days =400 miles
- Rentals of 3/6 days = 500 miles
- Rentals of more than 7 days = 1,000 miles 

Enterprise Rent-a-Car

By booking your rental through the Enterprise website and quoting your Flying Blue number, you can accumulate 4 miles per euro spent on rental

Europcar

As with Budget you can earn miles according to the days you rent, plus a little extra depending on your category:
Explorer = 10% discount; Silver, Gold or Platinum = 15% discount.

- 1 day rental 200 miles
- 2 days rental 300 miles
- 3 days rental 400 miles
- 4 days rental 500 miles
- 5/7 days rental 800 miles
- 8 days or more of rental 1,000 miles

Hertz

The Hertz program includes the "Drive Yourself" package (allows you to rent a car with a 15% of discount and accumulating 5 miles per euro spent) and the "Hertz DriveU" package (you can book a transfer to/from the airport, with the possibility of accumulating 3 miles Flying Blue for every euro spent).

Sixt Rent a Car

Depending on the Flying Blue membership category, you can accumulate up to a maximum of 1,200 miles with a rental. There is also the possibility of getting discounts:

- Explorer members are entitled to the priority lane for the bench
- Silver and Gold members get 10% discount per rental
- Platinum members get up to 15% discount and a free upgrade (subject to availability)
- Club 2000/Skipper members get a discount of 20% and a guaranteed upgrade

Thrifty

With 1,300 branches in 99 countries, Thrifty allows you to accumulate 4 miles per euro spent on rentals made with this partner.

Avios - British Airways

Avios is the program of British Airways mileage collection, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling and allows you to earn miles renting YOUR CAR.

Avios's partnership? Avis of course!

Probably a strategic marketing choice between the two companies. Through the partnership, it is possible to accumulate 5 Avios per pound expense of renting your car, plus the additional driver is free.

Budget - Iberia

With Iberia on the other hand, as well as with Avis, we have the possibility of rental with Budget, with which we will accumulate 2 Avios for each euro spent on rentals.

Skywards - Emirates

Emirates also has its own mileage accumulation program with major global car rental partners.

Depending on your Skywards category of membership, Blue, Silver, Gold or Platinum, you will have the opportunity to accumulate from a minimum of 4 to a maximum of 7 miles per dollar spent on car rental.

Now you know all the best mileage accrual programs with rentals scattered around the world, next time don't miss the opportunity to accumulate hundreds by miles Renting through one of the airline partners.

Did you know that you can earn miles Sitting on the couch at home?

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