The Travel Academy is excited to announce a new program that will better prepare students to enter the travel industry and will qualify for financial aid from the state of Minnesota. Our new program will be 10 weeks and 300 classroom hours in length. The new program will qualify for financial aid from Minnesota SELF Loans, enabling students to pay for the program, housing, and personal expenses while attending class. We are now accepting students for our new Financial Aid Qualified 300 Hour Program starting Monday, June 21. We only have room for 14 students, so call today to learn more and get your spot reserved!

Check out more info on our new program here!

Congratulations to Pam K. and Heather W. who were both just offered travel agent internships! Pam K. will be working with AAA Travel in West St. Paul, MN and Heather W. will be working with Travel Leaders in Maple Grove, MN! Both internships have the opportunity to turn into full-time positions, so we are very excited for these two ladies!

Congratulations to Dori B. who was just offered a position as a Flight Attendant with Mesa Air Group! We are excited to hear where she will be based after her training!

Congratulations to Alfiya A. who was just hired as a Flight Attendant with Pinnacle Airlines! She was invited to an Invitation-Only Open House and hired on the spot! We are very excited for Alfiya and wish her the best.

Congratulations to Janean H. who was just placed with VIPdesk as a work-from-home Travel and Customer Service Specialist! Janean graduated from The Travel Academy in 2007 and has been a travel coordinator, independent agent, and now is working for VIPdesk. She was one of three Travel Academy graduates to interview and be offered a position. Congrats to Janean and the other TTA grads on their success with VIPdesk!

On December 2, 2009, two representatives from Enterprise Holdings - Minnesota (National/Alamo/Enterprise car rentals) visited The Travel Academy. They gave a presentation to each of our morning and afternoon classes, including a Q&A session. This was their second visit to The Travel Academy in the last 4 months, and after their last visit, two of our students were offered positions with one of their companies!

Enterprise gave the staff of The Travel Academy a lot of great feedback about how prepared our students are! They have expressed an interest in building a relationship with us to give our students a priority in their hiring efforts! They also let us know that they anticipate a 15% increase in their hiring needs next year over their needs in 2009! They will have positions from entry-level Service Agents all the way to Management Trainees available in locations around the state of MN.

We are very excited to bring our students these new opportunities with a great company like Enterprise Holdings! As always, we continue to build relationships with other travel companies to get our graduates jump started in their travel careers!

The Travel Academy is excited to announce that a representative from Mesa Air Group will be here on Tuesday, December 15th at 9am to conduct on-site interviews with Travel Academy STUDENTS and GRADS  for the position of Flight Attendant!

If you wish you attend, you MUST send an email to our Placement Director, Jackie, at Placement.Director@thetravelacademy.com - include your resume, cover letter, and 10-year history. Jackie will review your materials and give you further instruction. You MUST RSVP to us, Mesa will NOT take walk-ins.

This is Mesa's second visit to The Travel Academy in 2 months - last time they were here they hired 2 of our students! This is a tremendous opportunity to get in with an airline that flies under the names of United Express, US Airways Express, and Delta Connection, as well as their own brand, go! Hawaii Airlines.

Please RSVP to Placement.Director@thetravelacademy.com as soon as possible so that Jackie can work with you to clean up your resume and we can provide accurate attendance numbers to Mesa.

Congratulations to Monica K. who has been hired by Republic Air - US Air Express as a Flight Attendant! We are very excited for you!

Congratulations to Angel R., who will start as a Flight Attendant with TranStates - United Express on Dec. 2! We are so happy for you and excited to see your career take off!