Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced a recently signed partnership with rentalcars.com as its car rental booking platform.
During the flight booking process, WIZZ customers will be offered the option to rent a vehicle upon their arrival at their destination airport. The car hire service offers a 24/7 multilingual call center support as well as supporting payment in various currencies.
Rentalcars.com is the world’s biggest car rental booking platform, arranging over 4.7 million rentals a year in 24,000 locations worldwide. The company’s headquarters are based in Manchester, UK, with over 1,000 staff.
Wizz Air’s Daniel de Carvalho said:"WIZZ’s low fares are available from 36 airports to 104 destinations. To offer our customers a reliable car hire service across our large network of destinations we have now partnered with the world leading online car rental booking platform. During the fast and transparent flight booking process, passengers will be given the option to add their car rental, making a single payment when concluding their flight reservation. At WIZZ we believe that a comfortable journey begins with a convenient online booking and goes beyond a relaxing flight and our ancillary services are designed to add comfort options to passengers’ travel experience.”
Peter Rooney, rentalcars.com Director of Marketing & Sales, said: “We’re very delighted to work with Wizz Air. We will continue to support their online car rental business and maximise their ancillary revenue. Our focus is to provide the best car rental experience to their customers and consequently increase their loyalty repeat customers.”
*Source: Innovata, on the basis of scheduled departing seat capacity for the year ended 31 March 2014 (“FY 2014”) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a region comprised of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.