Student Agency

Student Agency is a Czech travel agency whose main focuses are on au-pair programmes, resale of airline tickets and bus transport. Its headquarters are in Brno, Czech Republic. Despite the company's name, their services are not sold exclusively to students.

The company was founded by Radim Jančura, a graduate of the Brno University of Technology. Since its registration in 1996, Jančura remains CEO and the sole owner.

At the end of 2004 Student Agency had 368 employees, the annual turnover totalled CZK 1.5 bn, and the operating profit amounted to CZK 9m. The company's registered capital is only CZK 1m. In the first half of 2008, Student Agency announced operating profit of CZK 2.1 bn and employed 950 people.

In 2006, Radim Jančura received Czech Republic Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, a prize awarded by Ernst & Young.

The company operates lines connecting Prague with Ostrava, Vienna (both via Brno), Plzeň, Liberec and Hradec Králové. The most frequent is the Prague - Brno line with round the clock time schedule. There are also many less frequent international lines to: London, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris, Košice, Budapest, Rome, Naples, Venice, Zurich, Bern, Geneve, Oslo and some other destinations.

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