Ten rental companies at Orlando International Airport get a level, and 36 more get a telephone number
Orlando International Airport publishes a pick-up level and a return level for ten on-airport rental companies, and a telephone number and four shared curb zones for 36 off-airport ones. Neither list carries a rate or an opening hour, and the airport is spending $114 million on a rental car lobby that changes where Terminal C collects a car.
Two menu items under Ground Transportation on flymco.com carry that split, Rental Cars On Airport and Rental Cars Off Airport, and one of the two publishes nothing. Read in September 2026, the on-airport page returns its heading and no company, no level and no telephone number, while the off-airport page carries its full list. Everything the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority prints about the ten on-airport companies sits at a third address, flymco.com/rental-cars/, which also repeats the off-airport block word for word.
The two lists are not two versions of one thing. They carry different fields, and those fields decide different things: which floor of a garage a renter walks to, or which numbered bay at the curb a shuttle stops in.
| Rental category as Orlando International Airport names it | Where the car is collected | Where the car goes back | Numbered curb space | Contact detail printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rental Cars, ten on-airport companies | Level R1, R2 or P1 at Terminals A and B; Parking C1 or C2 at Terminal C | A separate block, and six of the ten name a different level | None for any of the ten | Telephone and company link, all ten |
| Rental Cars Off Airport, 36 companies | Spaces A11 to A13, B60 to B62, C277 to C278 and C3 to C4, all Level 1 | The same four zones, written as pick up and drop-off | Ten bays shared by all 36 | Telephone only, 33 distinct numbers |
| Rental Car Lobby at Terminal C, being built | Not open; project timeline Fall 2026 | The same lobby, for cars rented or returned at Terminal C | None published | Project cost of $114 million |
Ten bays for 36 companies is arithmetic over the airport’s own space numbers, and it is the ratio a traveler meets at the curb: three bays at Terminal A, three at Terminal B, two at Terminal C and two at the Train Station.
What Level R1 and Level R2 are, on the two pages that name them
The rental list prints a floor code and never says which building holds it. Two other pages at flymco.com print the same codes with a meaning attached, and neither of them mentions a rental company.
Parking Garage A publishes a block headed Identifiers that runs 4 Turtles, 3 Raccoons, 2 Bears, 1 Wild Pigs, R2 Manatees and R1 Alligators. Parking Garage B runs 4 Deer, 3 Brahmans, 2 Armadillos, 1 Panthers, R2 Frogs and R1 Tropical Fish. R1 and R2 are therefore the two lowest of six levels in each garage, below Level 1, and the same code carries a different animal in each building: R1 is Alligators in one garage and Tropical Fish in the other.
Terminal Top publishes seven levels, 10 Eagles down to 4 Wading Birds, and no R level at all. Parking Garage C publishes no Identifiers block. Across the fifteen parking products the airport lists, R levels are published only for Parking Garage A and Parking Garage B, and both of those garages describe their access identically, Terminal A and Terminal B within walking distance and Terminal C by a Terminal Link ride, so neither page rules itself out as the one holding the Terminal A rental floor. All four garages run a grace period of 20 minutes, then $2 for 21 to 30 minutes, then $24 per 24-hour period, refuse a vehicle higher than 7 feet 0 inches and put the far terminals a 4 minute Terminal Link ride away, with about 1,200 feet on foot added at the Terminal C end. The rest of that ladder sits in the breakdown of every priced MCO parking product.
A renter told to collect at Terminal A, Level R1 therefore has two candidate signs to walk toward, Alligators and Tropical Fish, and the issuer publishes no sentence joining a company to a building.
Level P1, Parking C1 and Parking C2: three codes with no product behind them
Sixt is the only company at Orlando International Airport placed on Level P1, in both directions at Terminals A and B. P1 appears on no parking page the airport publishes: not on the index that groups its fifteen parking products, not on Terminal Top or any of the four garages, not on the three surface lots at $20 per 24-hour period, not on the three economy lots at $14.
Parking C1 and Parking C2 sit in the same position. The parking index sorts everything under At Terminals A and B, At Terminal C, At Train Station, Economy Parking Lots and Cell Phone Waiting Areas; the only product it names under Terminal C is Parking Garage C, and the one rate it prints on that index is $32 per 24-hour period for a reserved space there. C1 and C2 appear on the rental page and nowhere else, which leaves four of the ten companies at Parking C1 and six at Parking C2 with no page of their own to check.
The telephone numbers split the same ten a different way. Eight are toll free 1-800 lines, from Alamo on 1-800-327-9633 to Thrifty on 1-800-367-2277. Two are not: Payless Car Rental on 407-856-5539, an Orlando number, and Sixt on 1-408-592-7243, whose area code belongs to California rather than Florida. Sixt is the outlier on both fields at once, the floor code and the phone.
Every on-airport company, the level that hands over the car and the level that takes it back
Each company gets two blocks on the rental page, headed Return and Pick-Up, and the two do not always agree. The full list below is as the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority published it in September 2026, with the company names spelled the way the airport spells them.
| Company as Orlando International Airport lists it | Return at Terminal A | Return at Terminal B | Pick-up at Terminals A and B | Terminal C, both directions | Telephone the airport prints |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamo | Level R1 | Level R1 | Level R1 | Parking C1 | 1-800-327-9633 |
| Avis | Level R1 | Level R2 | Level R2 | Parking C2 | 1-800-831-2847 |
| Budget | Level R1 | Level R2 | Level R2 | Parking C2 | 1-800-527-0700 |
| Dollar Car Rental | Level R2 | Level R1 | Level R2 | Parking C2 | 1-800-800-4000 |
| Enterprise | Level R1 | Level R1 | Level R1 | Parking C1 | 1-800-325-8007 |
| Hertz Car Rental | Level R2 | Level R1 | Level R2 | Parking C2 | 1-800-654-3131 |
| National | Level R1 | Level R1 | Level R1 | Parking C1 | 1-800-227-7368 |
| Payless Car Rental | Level R1 | Level R2 | Level R2 | Parking C2 | 407-856-5539 |
| Sixt | Level P1 | Level P1 | Level P1 | Parking C1 | 1-408-592-7243 |
| Thrifty | Level R2 | Level R1 | Level R2 | Parking C2 | 1-800-367-2277 |
Read the last two columns together and one rule holds for all ten. Every company at Parking C1 collects on Level R1 or Level P1 at Terminals A and B; every company at Parking C2 collects on Level R2. The Terminal C garage number predicts the Terminal A and Terminal B pick-up level without a single exception.
Six of the ten take the car back on a floor that did not hand it over
The return column breaks the rule the pick-up column keeps, and it breaks it as a mirror. Avis, Budget and Payless Car Rental return at Terminal A on Level R1 and at Terminal B on Level R2. Dollar Car Rental, Hertz Car Rental and Thrifty do the exact reverse, Terminal A on Level R2 and Terminal B on Level R1. All six collect on Level R2 at both terminals.
Each of those six therefore has one terminal where the return floor is not the collection floor. For Avis, Budget and Payless it is Terminal A: keys from R2, car back to R1. For Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty it is Terminal B, the same swap one building across. Alamo, Enterprise and National use Level R1 for everything and Sixt uses Level P1 for everything, so four of the ten never move a renter at all.
Set that against the garage signs and the swap is one floor and a change of animal. If the Terminal A level sits in Parking Garage A and the Terminal B level in Parking Garage B, which is the reading the two page titles invite, an Avis renter at Terminal A drives up from Manatees and brings the car back to Alligators, and a Hertz renter at Terminal B drives up from Frogs and comes back to Tropical Fish. The airport publishes both halves and joins neither, so the join is a reading and the animals are the issuer’s.
Winner by scenario, judged only on what the airport publishes. Collecting at Terminal A or Terminal B: an on-airport company wins, because a floor is printed and no shuttle is involved. Arriving at the MCO Train Station on a Brightline train: an off-airport company wins, because spaces C3 and C4 are the only rental pick-up the airport publishes there and not one of the ten on-airport companies is listed at the Train Station. Returning the car before an early flight: on-airport wins again, because a return level is printed while no off-airport office has a published address anywhere. Renting one way and surrendering the car 42 miles east: neither wins on published information, and the charges that actually move that total are laid out in the one-way rental comparison against a shuttle seat.
Ten numbered bays for 36 off-airport companies, and 33 telephone numbers
The off-airport block is one paragraph, four locations and a two column table. The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority writes that the companies also provide rental cars, and free shuttle bus transportation to their off-airport car rental locations, and that they pick up and drop off at Terminal A Level 1 Ground Transportation in spaces A11 to A13, Terminal B in spaces B60 to B62, Terminal C in spaces C277 to C278, and the Train Station in spaces C3 to C4.
That is ten bays for 36 operators, and no shuttle frequency is published for any of them. The contrast is inside the same site: the economy lot shuttles the airport runs itself are published as operating 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and the peer to peer shuttle from the Train Station to Surface Lot Atlantis is published at every 10 minutes. Rental shuttles get a bay number and no clock.
The telephone column carries its own arithmetic. Thirty-six companies share 33 distinct numbers. AddCar and Astralis are both printed as (786) 210-6930. Mex Rent a Car, Nextcar of Orlando and Surprice Car Rentals Florida are all printed as (305) 988-6125, and York Car Rentals Florida sits one digit away at (305) 988-0125. Counted by prefix, 14 of the 36 begin 407, nine begin 786, four begin 305, three begin 954, three begin 321, one begins 689, one begins 415 and one begins 269.
No address, no company link and no opening hour appears for any of the 36. The on-airport ten each get a link to the company site and the off-airport 36 get none, which reverses what a traveler would expect: the companies least likely to be recognized by name are the ones the airport describes least. Every mode the airport does document, and the single curb mode it leaves unnumbered, is set out in the survey of ground transportation at Orlando International Airport.
Terminal C is sent to a garage on one page and to Level 4 on another
Ask the rental page where a Terminal C renter goes and the answer is Parking C1 for Alamo, Enterprise, National and Sixt, and Parking C2 for the other six. Ask the airport’s own FAQ and the answer is a floor. In its entry on the Visitor Toll Pass, the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority gives the collection points as Terminal A Level 1, Terminal B Level 1 near bag carousel 28B, and Terminal C Level 4, near rental car counters.
Those are the only two statements the airport makes about where a Terminal C rental car changes hands. They sit on different pages, in different words, with no cross-reference between them, and Level 4 is the only place on flymco.com where the phrase rental car counters carries a floor number, inside an answer about tolls.
A $114 million project explains why the ground is moving. Under Elevating MCO, the airport publishes that it is developing a Rental Car Lobby to accommodate Terminal C’s passengers, at a project cost of $114 million and a project timeline of Fall 2026. The lobby goes adjacent to the footprint of the Pedestrian Bridge, the walkway between Terminal C and the Train Station complex, and it will hold rental car counters, seating, restrooms and concession build out space. The Pedestrian Bridge is already complete with moving sidewalks, and the airport states the walkways will be extended once the lobby opens.
The scope is explicit and narrow. The lobby will serve passengers who rent or return cars at Terminal C, and on-site rental companies will continue to provide services in the A and B Terminals. Nothing published says whether Parking C1 and Parking C2 survive the move. The reason for the spend opens the same page: Orlando International Airport describes itself as the world’s largest car rental market based on gross revenues.
One Shell station, no price, and a fuel stop beside the Train Station
Returning a car full is priced by the rental contract rather than the airport, and the airport still gives the subject a page of its own. Exactly one filling station appears anywhere on flymco.com: the Shell station at our South Travel Plaza, which the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority says offers competitively priced gas and locates on the south entrance and exit road at the junction of Jeff Fuqua Blvd. and South Park Place, opposite the Train Station.
The page carries no price, no opening hour and no alternative. Competitively priced is the only statement about cost the issuer makes, and the only other element on the page is a map link. The distance from any rental return level to that junction is not published either.
The junction named is a landmark elsewhere in the same estate. South Park Place Economy Lot sits at 10536 S. Jeff Fuqua Blvd. and charges $5 for 11 minutes to 3 hours, then $14 per 24-hour period for up to 90 days, and the Train Station opposite the Shell is the complex the Terminal C pedestrian bridge reaches and where the Brightline station runs daily 5am to 11pm. A driver refueling before a Terminal A return is crossing to the Terminal C side of the airport and back, on the airport’s own geography, and the drive that emptied the tank is priced mode by mode in the comparison of ways to cover the Orlando to Port Canaveral run.
Details on the MCO rental pages that decide where the keys are
- The Visitor Toll Pass is collected at Terminal A Level 1, Terminal B Level 1 near bag carousel 28B or Terminal C Level 4, and the airport tells visitors to decline the rental car company’s toll program before adding the rental plate in the app. It goes back into one of 14 return drop boxes inside the airport and nowhere else.
- Alamo, Enterprise and National share every location field on the rental page: Level R1 at Terminals A and B in both directions, Parking C1 at Terminal C. Only the telephone numbers separate them, 1-800-327-9633, 1-800-325-8007 and 1-800-227-7368.
- The off-airport bays at the Train Station, spaces C3 and C4, sit four numbers below the hotel shuttle bays C7 and C8 on the same Level 1 Ground Transportation curb, so a Brightline arrival is reading bay numbers rather than signs for a company.
- No numbered bay is published for any of the ten on-airport companies, because none of them meets a passenger at the ground transportation curb. Ride share remains the only curb mode at MCO with no space number of its own.
- The airport publishes a taxi estimate of $115 and a limousine band of $50 to $90 to Port Canaveral, both per vehicle, which is the ceiling a rental has to beat on that leg. The mileage behind those quotes is examined in the measurement of the Orlando to Port Canaveral gap.
- Handing the car back at the coast instead of at MCO changes the issuer entirely, and what each one prints about offices and debarkation hours is collected in the survey of rental returns around Port Canaveral.
Five ways an Orlando airport rental ends up on the wrong floor
Reading the pick-up level as the return level is the first, and it is wrong for six of the ten companies. Avis, Budget and Payless Car Rental change floor at Terminal A; Dollar Car Rental, Hertz Car Rental and Thrifty change floor at Terminal B. The two blocks are printed one under the other and are easy to read as one instruction.
Treating Parking C1 and Parking C2 as parking products is the second. Neither name appears on the parking index of fifteen products, whose sole Terminal C entry is Parking Garage C at $24 per 24-hour period walk-up and $32 reserved. Searching the parking pages for C1 returns nothing to book and nothing to check.
Trusting the page called Rental Cars On Airport is the third. It answers with a heading and no content, so a traveler who opens it concludes the airport lists no on-airport companies at all. The list lives at flymco.com/rental-cars/, which carries both categories on one page.
Booking off airport and planning around a shuttle time is the fourth. Ten bays serve 36 companies, the wording is a free shuttle bus, and no headway is published for any operator. The only published frequency in that part of the airport, every 10 minutes, belongs to the peer to peer shuttle from the Train Station.
Sizing the vehicle by rental class is the fifth. The height rule is written as a measurement, not a vehicle type: nothing higher than 7 feet 0 inches is accommodated in the garages that hold the rental levels, and the only place the airport sends an oversized vehicle, or one up to 25 feet in length, is the South Park Place parking lot, an economy lot at $14 per 24-hour period with no rental floor in it. A high roof van has no published return level at MCO, and the exits and terminals at the other end are mapped in the guide to Port Canaveral’s terminals and garages.
How each Orlando International Airport rental figure was read
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
Six pages of flymco.com carry the material above: the rental cars list, the on-airport and off-airport ground transportation pages, the gas station page, the Elevating MCO page for the new rental car lobby, and the airport FAQ that holds the Visitor Toll Pass answer. The level identifiers were read from the Parking Garage A, Parking Garage B, Parking Garage C and Terminal Top pages, and the product list from the parking index. Each was fetched directly, since flymco.com returns a full looking page body with a 404 status on addresses that do not exist.
Questions about levels, bays and counters when renting a car at MCO
Six questions decide where a renter walks at Orlando International Airport, answered with the same September 2026 figures used above.
The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority publishes a level rather than a counter address. Alamo, Enterprise and National sit on Level R1 at Terminals A and B, Sixt on Level P1, and the other six on Level R2. Terminal C renters are sent to Parking C1 or Parking C2.
Not for six of the ten companies. Avis, Budget and Payless Car Rental collect on Level R2 at Terminal A and take the car back on Level R1. Dollar Car Rental, Hertz Car Rental and Thrifty do the same swap at Terminal B, verified September 2026.
Ten on airport and 36 off airport, according to the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority in September 2026. The ten carry a level, a telephone number and a website link. The 36 carry a telephone number only, sharing 33 distinct numbers and ten numbered curb bays.
At four Level 1 Ground Transportation zones the airport numbers: Terminal A spaces A11 to A13, Terminal B spaces B60 to B62, Terminal C spaces C277 to C278, and the Train Station spaces C3 to C4. The same zones serve drop-off, and no shuttle frequency is published.
One, and the airport publishes no price for it. The Shell station at the South Travel Plaza sits on the south entrance and exit road at the junction of Jeff Fuqua Blvd. and South Park Place, opposite the Train Station, where the $14 economy lot address begins.
Yes. The airport publishes a Rental Car Lobby for Terminal C at a project cost of $114 million with a project timeline of Fall 2026, beside the Pedestrian Bridge to the Train Station. Terminals A and B keep their existing on-site rental companies.
An airport that numbers the floor and will not name the building
Orlando International Airport is unusually precise about vertical position and silent about everything a renter would ask next. It gives ten companies a floor code, gives 36 more a numbered bay at the curb, and publishes no rate, no opening hour and no address for any of the 46.
The gap is being filled with concrete rather than text. A $114 million lobby is going up beside the Pedestrian Bridge for Terminal C alone, and Terminals A and B keep the arrangement they have, which means the floor codes on that page have years left to run.
Until then the useful question at MCO is not which company, but which floor, and whether it is the same one on the way back.