Tom Balousek, one of the three co-founders of Air Routing International, has helped to start Flight Pro International, a full-service international trip support company focused on the business aviation segment. This helps fill a void left in July last year when Collins Aerospace discontinued its International Trip Support (ITS) business, which was largely built on Collins’s acquisition of Houston-based Air Routing in late 2009.

In fact, many former Collins ITS employees are now working at Houston-based Flight Pro, including president and COO Matt Pahl, who started at Air Routing in 1991 and left Collins ITS last July. “Flight Pro has assembled a team of the most experienced, passionate professionals, committed to excellence and an industry-leading consultative approach with the highest degree of integrity,” he said.

Flight Pro’s experienced global trip support (GTS) operations team is backed by a network of dedicated in-country experts to help business aircraft operators with international trip support from start to finish, the company said. In addition to its GTS solution, Flight Pro will soon launch a cloud-based software platform, dubbed Flight Pro Connect, described as a “multifaceted trip management tool.”