This week lawmakers approved a bill increasing the "facility charge" customers have to pay on Hawaii car rentals from the current $1 a day to $4.50 a day. This is a 400 percent facility fee hike, monies are earmarked for a new car rental facility for Honolulu Airport as well as upgrades to the Kahului Airport facility.
The fee hike could raise up to $500 million for needed improvements.
Car rental companies in Hawaii must pay the state $30 million a year in airport concession fees and have received little to improve the out-of-date and deteriorating car rental locations at state airports. The facility fee increase is expected to start Sept. 1.
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