Oh, this makes a bit of sense. The Avis/Budget fleet team will be part of managing the vehicles, so they can be quickly cleaned and fueled up when they slide into the airport, too.

https://www.avisbudgetgroup.com/avis-budget-group-announces-...

(Dallas, but they do this in other cities, too.)

huh. I didn't even know this existed.

Same. I go to the rectal car center at least 4 times each year. I just was there on Saturday and had no idea either. Still don't know what it is other than Waymo pickup.

>rectal car center

Known nickname or typo?

Definitely phone autocorrect issue. I'm gonna leave it though

How often do you type "rectal" for that to become an autocorrect default for you??

If you are over 50, and serious about not getting colon cancer, maybe a little bit more than one would expect.

I use Google keyboard without customized auto correct.

It really likes to change random words to inappropriate things.

But I guess that's the people who are typing on phones a lot are typing about.

OP is a urologist

Otherwise known by its popular name “Cloaca-Rent—A-Car”

Or both :-D

It - along with cell phone waiting lots - are ways for people to drop others off and avoid the traffic around the terminals themselves.

Which can be bad - I often find it easier to just pay for a few minutes parking on dropoff/pickup.

Yeah, but the SFO cell phone lot is particularly bad, and traffic to the terminals is bad.

On the flip side, there are airports like Cleveland where people just park their car at arrivals and disappear for 20 minutes.

I did always find the term kiss and fly confusing and weirdly intimate, as if everyone is getting a ride to the airport from a spouse or parent. Definitely a throwback to another era.

I think it's also a regional thing; I'd never heard of it.

ChatGPT tells me it originated at Paris CDG in the 1990s where it was "depose minute" but then also cites LA Times from the 1950s as the first source of the term[1]. I've seen it in Germany as "Kiss und Ride".

So it's not really a regionalism, but I also don't think it's super common.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride?utm_source=chatg...

> rectal car center

That's way mo' information than needed thanks.

But seriously. I wonder why they have a designated pickup point if it would make sense to spread the cars out to alleviate traffic bottlenecks.

What's even better is the variety of names this thing has. I'm my area, it's the "cell phone lane"