Renting A Car At Newark Airport Is About To Change

NEWARK, NJ — Are you planning to rent a car at Newark Airport this holiday season? You’ll get a firsthand look at the latest upgrade to the airport’s swanky new terminal.

The 10 rental car companies currently at Newark Liberty International Airport – Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National, Payless, Sixt and Thrifty – will begin to operate out of a new consolidated rental car center at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15.

All rental transactions – including returns – will take place at the new center, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The rental car facility is located within the newly built Terminal A parking garage on levels 1 through 3. The center is connected to Terminal B and Terminal C via the AirTrain, with a direct connection to the new Terminal A via a pedestrian bridge. Passengers exiting Terminal A can walk across the bridge to arrive on level two of the rental car facility. Drivers should follow “Rental Car Return” signs.

Immediately after the transition, the P3 AirTrain station that currently serves the rental companies’ previous location – which opened in 1973 and have become “cramped and outmoded” – will close to the public, Port Authority officials said.

According to the Port Authority, the rental car center is financed, constructed and operated by Conrac Solutions, which also built the public parking facility where the new center is located.

The public parking levels on floors 4 through 6 feature more than 150 electric vehicle chargers and over 2,700 public parking spaces, with plans for the rental car center to offer an additional 65 electric vehicle chargers at in the future.

The new facility, including the rental car center, is powered by a 5-megawatt (MW) solar rooftop, the largest single solar rooftop project at any U.S. airport.

EWR ConRAC, LLC, a special purpose vehicle formed by CS Capital, entered into a 40-year lease with the Port Authority to deliver and operate the project.

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Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole previously called the new rental car facility a “perfect complement” to the $2.7 billion redesign of Terminal A.

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