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Old 2007-04-18
I won't pick you up
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Default Re: Welcome National and Alamo Employees and Customers!

Yeah we are expecting that many of the higher-ups such as regional staff will change. Word is on our side that ERAC is going to proceed with caution. Sure they have bought little rinky-dink car rental companies before, where they could ax everyone, and make those locations ERAC, but it is not feasible for this takeover. It would be arrogant of anyone at ERAC to think they can step in and run a National/Alamo location, just as it would be arrogant on my part to think that I could go run my local ERAC branch. Sure, its car rental, so the basics are the same...you have a car, you rent it, it checks in, you clean it, rent it again, but other than that most everything is different. Basically I don't feel ERAC is going to come in and "clean house" so to speak. ERAC does a good job in the local market, and we do well in the Airport world. For proof, look at the last issue of Auto Rental news, the market share for the Miami airport is in there...Vanguard has 28% of the market, behind Hertz with 29%....Enterprise has a meager 4.6% of the market. And that is pretty typical at most airports, except if its not in Florida than National/Alamo is usually #3, behind Hertz and Avis. My point simply being that we have had success in an aspect of the business where ERAC has not been as successful. Sure, ERAC will probably learn what they can from us, and then phase in some of their staff, but it will be a long process, not a sudden "Ok, everyone with Vanguard is now fired". My guess is they will get rid of the dead weight, and keep those of us who are good managers.
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