{"id":1614,"date":"2012-02-20T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T09:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thealternativeagency.co.uk\/indigo\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2012-02-20T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T09:14:47","slug":"spanish-car-hire-company-cease-trading-will-the-rates-over-the-summer-period-shoot-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designoholic.uk\/indigo\/spanish-car-hire-company-cease-trading-will-the-rates-over-the-summer-period-shoot-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Car Hire Giant Cease Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports suggest\u00a0Aurigacrown will cease trading which is very sad news, I really thought the times of car hire companies going under was behind us. Aurigacrown are a well-known car hire company with a fleet of over 15,000 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Is this something to do with the ridiculously low prices? Over the last 6 months i have seen cars go out to customers for a full month for as little as \u00a3200.00. This is a great price however the way the car hire suppliers make up for the low rates is through selling extras. Such as fuel, it is very common and also very annoying to customers renting cars in Spain, as most car hire supplier\u2019s terms are to collect the car full of fuel and return back empty, charging the customers for the full tank of fuel at premium rates.<\/p>\n<p>I really think due to the shortage of cars this summer, as 15,000 cars is a lot to reduce by. We will see the rates shoot up. Going back 3 years ago, when car hire supply was short exactly the same happened, cars were selling at over \u00a3300.00 per week and this was for the box standard Peugeot 107 or similar model.<\/p>\n<p>We arrange quite a lot of Car Hire at Alicante Airport where the supplier has an office, really hope for all our Indigo customers the prices\u00a0are not affected too much but it\u2019s a matter of watch this space really&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports suggest\u00a0Aurigacrown will cease trading which is very sad news, I really thought the times of car hire companies going under was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-indigo-news","category-travel-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spanish Car Hire Giant Cease Trading | Indigo Car Hire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spanish Car Hire Giant Cease Trading with 18,000 rental cars being taken off the roads. 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