Airport commission makes relationship with rental car service Turo official
ST. LOUIS – Turo, a service that allows you to rent personal vehicles from other drivers, is now officially cleared to operate at St. Louis International Airport.
Turo was already being used at the airport, but there wasn’t an official agreement in place for the peer-to-peer car rental platform to operate at the airport.
That didn’t sit well with some St. Louis aldermen, who wanted a formal relationship between the company and the airport. Those concerns were resolved Wednesday, as the St. Louis Airport Commission gave Turo its unanimous approval.
According to the one-year agreement, which becomes official Sept. 1, Turo rentals cannot be conducted in Lambert parking garages or walkable surface lots. Turo rental transactions can occur on lots B, C, and D. The commission says it’s on Turo to enforce those rules, but the airport will assist.
“We’ll also have to enforce it. I can tell you that when we get asked directions to Turo and things like that, we’ll know right where to direct them with this, that’s to the shuttles. And then we do have a right to audit their records as well,” Robert Salarano, manager of the St. Louis Airport Authority’s properties division, said.
Airport Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge says the airport will get a cut of the money Turo makes from rental transactions at St. Louis Airport.
She says the one-year contract will help determine just how much the service is used and how much money the relationship could bring in for the airport.
