About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Scoop: Advantage Rent A Car Appears To Collapse Again—Company Locations Abruptly Shut Down

Jul 12 2025

Advantage Rent A Car appears to be shutting down. The Las Vegas location apparently closed last week. Their flagship headquarters Orlando airport location closed yesterday. Franchise locations appear to still be open. A Dallas off-airport location also shows closed, and I’m hearing Denver as well. This was flagged to me by Jonathan of Autoslash which is both a great source of absolute best deals on car rentals and awareness for what’s going on in the industry. This is a scoop since it doesn’t appear the state of play of Advantage If a separate bankruptcy is filed (and for technical reasons it’s possible there wouldn’t need to be), it would be their fourth bankruptcy. A PACER search of the federal bankruptcy docket shows they haven’t filed a new one yet – just their May 2020 Chapter 11 case…

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