Tuesday February 16 2010

Two Largest Travel Agencies in the World Contact The Travel Academy to Hire Our Graduates!

Here at The Travel Academy, we work hard to not only give you the best travel industry training available, but also to get you the jobs you want in the industry. This month we are happy to announce three new LONG-TERM relationships that will benefit Travel Academy grads!

Colgan Air (Continental Express) will be receiving new aircraft and so will be hiring 60 Flight Attendants each month for the next year! They will be working with us directly to help them fill the positions with qualified candidates! In addition to Colgan, we also work with numerous other airlines seeking to hire our students as Flight Attendants, Customer Service Agents, and other operations positions.

American Express Travel, the largest travel agency in the world, has contacted us to help them fill Travel Counselor positions nationwide!

Carlson Wagonlit Travel contacted us to help them fill Travel Agent positions in the Minneapolis area, and now would like to partner with us to fill positions nationwide. They are the 2nd largest travel agency in the world!

We are proud to be a resource for these companies, as well as many others, and are excited to place our grads with them. The economy and the travel industry are starting to turn around and travel agents, flight attendants, and other travel industry positions are in higher demand. We need more graduates to fill the many available positions! Contact us today to get your travel industry career started!

The Travel Academy Experience

We have current students and graduates being hired and interviewing with 7+ companies right now - including airlines, travel agencies, reservation centers, hotels, and cruise lines! Our training program not only gives you knowledge and skills for the industry, but we also provide you with career development in areas such as resume writing, interviewing, and professionalism.

 

Congratulations to these students:

• Alfiya A. - Pinnacle Airlines, Flight Attendant
• Janean H. - VIPdesk, Travel and Customer Service Specialist
• Mikki F. - Alaska Air, Flight Attendant
• Karen P. - AAA-MN, Travel Agent Intern
• Dori B. - interviews with Compass Airlines (FA) and Southwest Coaches (tour guide)
• Pam K. - interviews with LKJ Co. for Airline Reservation Specialist
• Margarita B. - interviews with Cruise West

We Want to Know...

We are always looking for ways to improve! We want to know what you enjoy most about our monthly newsletters, what you think we could do better, and what you would like to see each month! Please email us with your opinions and ideas!

UPCOMING CLASS SCHEDULE

March 1

6 weeks

Mon-Fri

1:15-5:15pm

2 SEATS OPEN

2 VIRTUAL SEATS

 

March 15

8 weeks

Mon-Thu

8:15am-12:15pm

4 SEATS OPEN

2 VIRTUAL SEATS

 

April 19

6 weeks

Mon-Fri

1:15-5:15pm

8 SEATS OPEN

2 VIRTUAL SEATS

 

April 26

16 weeks

Mon/Wed

5:45-9:30pm

9 SEATS OPEN

2 VIRTUAL SEATS

 

May 10

8 weeks

Mon-Thu

8:15am-12:15pm

9 SEATS OPEN

3 VIRTUAL SEATS

 

ENROLL HERE

More 2010 class schedules are available on our website

Unable to attend in person? Check out our VIRTUAL TRAINING to achieve your educational goals from the comfort of your home or office!

INDUSTRY NEWS

Alaska Air Group executed a $257 million turnaround in 2009, reporting net income of $121.6 million

*Congrats to Mikki F. who was just hired by Alaska Air!

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. beat its own and Wall Street estimates with a $3.4 million fourth-quarter profit, more than double its earnings from a year earlier.

Hilton opened 302 hotels and put more than 45,000 rooms on the market during 2009, on top of the 327 properties opened in 2008, meaning it opened more hotels in the past two years than in any other period in its history. The company says it plans to open 900 more hotels in the next few years.

***News from TravelWeekly.com

Travel Humor

Never let it be said that airline crew don't have a sense of humor! Here are some maintenance issues reported by pilots (P) and the response of the maintenance engineers (S) on the report forms:

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.

S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

 

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.

S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

 

P: Dead bugs on windshield.

S: Live bugs on back-order.

 

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear

S: Evidence removed.

 

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.

S: That's what friction locks are for.

 

P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode

S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

 

P: Suspected crack in windshield.

S: Suspect you're right.

 

P: Number 3 engine missing.

S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

 

P: Aircraft handles funny.

S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

 

P: Target radar hums.

S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

 

P: Mouse in cockpit.

S: Cat installed.

 

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.

Let us know how we can

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Thank you - The Travel Academy TEAM!

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