Avis tailors website for wireless, adds hybrids

Avis Rent A Car System LLC last week launched a made-for-wireless Avis.com that offers tailored, faster-loading screens for customers to make, check, and change reservations online and order such perks as satellite navigation or toll-road express-lane transponders. Separately, Avis said it is adding 500 Nissan Altima hybrids to its California fleet as a full-size alternative -- that gets 42 miles to the gallon in city driving -- to its 1,000 compact Toyota Prius hybrids that are being added in the West Coast and, by year end, Boston and other big Northeastern cities.

The way to Santa Fe eases with additional routes

New Englanders heading to quaint Santa Fe and nearby Taos ski resorts will get two new options in mid-December, on American Airlines through Dallas/Fort Worth and on Delta Air Lines through Salt Lake City. After recent expansion at the New Mexico capital's airport, Delta is launching flights there Dec. 10 on 50-seat jets twice daily from Salt Lake and American Dec. 13 once daily on 44-seat jets from DFW. Another new southwestern route: Continental Airlines to Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport, once daily except Sunday from its Cleveland hub, starting Sept. 30 on 50-seat jets.

JetBlue offers flight to southern Puerto Rico

If sunny Puerto Rico is your destination, JetBlue Airways is offering nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Ponce, on the island's southern coast, starting Nov. 5. But it's not for sleep lovers or the faint of heart: Flights leave Fort Lauderdale five minutes before midnight and arrive at 3:25 a.m., and the return trip leaves Ponce at 4:35 a.m.

PETER J. HOWE